New Atlas

Switchable window material stays clear while blocking the sun's heat

As sunlight passes through a building's windows it can cause indoor temperatures to rise, to the point that the structure's power-hungry air conditioning system has to be used. A new switchable window ...
Ars Technica

IR window materials and where to buy in UK

I'm working on my HTPC and have an IR reciever. I want to (understandably) mount it inside the case (Lian Li PC-9300 MATX desktop stylee BTW). The plan is to have a blackened (or blue/red/yellow/green ...
Optics

Expanded IR Window Offering Provides Solutions for Nearly Every IR Application

Each substrate material has some numerous advantages and disadvantages compared to the others. GaAs is a very tough and durable material which is useful as a protective window in laser material ...
Bdcnetwork.com

PPG earns DOE funding to develop dynamically responsive IR window coating Technology aims to maintain daylighting, control solar heat gain

PPG Industries’ flat glass business has received $312,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a dynamically responsive infrared (IR) window coating that will block heat in the summer ...
Optics

Infrared Sapphire Windows

Sapphire has many advantages for mid-wave infrared applications. It has good hardness and transmission. For the sapphire window applied to MWIR, Creator Optics uses infrared grade sapphire single ...