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The thermal performance of an electrochromic vacuum glazing with selected low-emittance coatings

  • Yueping Fang
  • , Philip Eames
  • , Brian Norton
  • , Trevor Hyde
  • , Ye Huang
  • , Neil Hewitt
    • University of Warwick
    • Dublin Institute of Technology
    • Ulster University

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    Abstract

    An electrochromic (EC) vacuum glazing (VG) is formed when a vacuum glazing is combined with an electrochromic glazing. Three glass panes are required, two of which may have a low-emittance coating separated by a pillar array, the space formed being evacuated and sealed contiguously by a metal edge seal, the third glass pane with an EC layer is sealed to the evacuated glass unit. With the EC glazing installed with the electrochromic component facing the outdoor environment, for an incident solar radiation of 300 W m− 2, when the EC layer is opaque for winter conditions, the inside glass pane of the unit due to solar radiation absorbed by the low-emittance coatings within the vacuum gap and electrochromic layer is a heat source with heat transferred from the glazing to the interior environment.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1074-1081
    Number of pages7
    JournalThin Solid Films
    Volume516
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 30 Jan 2008

    Keywords

    • EC VG
    • Low-emittance coating
    • Thermal performance
    • Emittance
    • Insolation

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