RESEARCH ARTICLE

Realization of energy-saving glass using photonic crystals

  • Yen-Hsiang CHEN , 1 ,
  • Li-Hung LIAO 1 ,
  • Yu-Bin CHEN 2
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  • 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan, China
  • 2. Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, TsingHua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, China

Received date: 02 Jun 2017

Accepted date: 20 Sep 2017

Published date: 08 Mar 2018

Copyright

2018 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature

Abstract

This work successfully developed an energy-saving glass with wavelength selectivity. The glass is composed of a SiO2 substrate and two layers of three-dimensional photonic crystals. Each crystal is composed of identical and transparent polystyrene spheres after their self-assembling. The glass then possesses dual photonic band gaps in the near-infrared region to suppress penetration of thermal radiation. Experimental results show that the energy-saving glass decreases temperature increment in a mini-house. Moreover, the temperature after thermal equilibrium is lower than that inside a counterpart using ordinary glass.

Cite this article

Yen-Hsiang CHEN , Li-Hung LIAO , Yu-Bin CHEN . Realization of energy-saving glass using photonic crystals[J]. Frontiers in Energy, 2018 , 12(1) : 178 -184 . DOI: 10.1007/s11708-018-0523-9

Acknowledgments

This work was financially supported by “the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in Taiwan (Grant Nos. MOST-104-2628-E-007-006-MY2 and MOST-105-3113-E-006-002).”
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