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 ...

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 ...

CaF2 (Calcium Fluoride) has good performance at optical and thermo-mechanical properties,it can be used for optical Windows,spherical lens, prisms and cylinders within a wide range from 130nm to 9μm.

The deep-rooted beliefs that light absorption and scattering are totally harmful to fluorescence catching urge most researchers to chase a perfect window with minimal photon absorption and scattering ...