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OwnerDavid ROGERS, Philippe Henri BOVE +2inventors
InventorsDavid ROGERS, Philippe Henri BOVE, Ferechteh HOSSEINI TEHERANI, Vinod Eric SANDANA
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The invention provides an anti-glare coating of wide bandgap nanostructured oxide material so as to reduce the dazzling reflections of sunlight and avoid light pollution generated by spacecraft. The coating provides selective electrodeposition of a nanostructured wide bandgap oxide material on the metal contact grid on the surface of a solar panel of a spacecraft or a satellite in which the metal contact grid constitutes the cathode, and the resulting nanostructures have a width and spacing less than the wavelength ‘λ’ of the incident light or equal to ‘λ/n’ with λ located between 180 nm and 8μm, and ‘n’ being the refractive index of the nanostructured material so that for angles of incidence between 0.01 and 90 degrees less than 0.5% of light is reflected.
An anti-glare coating of wide bandgap nanostructured oxide material which reduces the dazzling reflections of sunlight and avoids light pollution generated by spacecraft which is realized by the electrodeposition of a nanostructured wide-bandgap oxide material on the metal contact grid on the surface of a solar panel of a spacecraft or satellite in which the metal contact grid forms the cathode, and the resulting nanostructures have a width and a spacing less than the wavelength ‘λ’ of the incident light or equal to ‘λ/n’ with λ between 180 nm and 8 μm, and ‘n’ being the refractive index of the nanostructured material so that for angles of incidence between 0.01 and 90 degrees less than 0.5% of light is reflected.
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