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To enhance the thermal stability of cermet-based photothermal conversion coatings, the present paper proposes a novel strategy to replace the randomly distributed nanoparticles with layered structure. This kind of structure can not only suppress the agglomeration and rapid growth of nanoparticles, but also enhance the interaction between the absorber and sunlight. Thus, the thermal stability and selectivity can be simultaneously improved by this unique kind of structure. Then, a Cr/AlCrN/AlCrON/AlCrO multilayer cermet-based photothermal conversion coating is designed and fabricated by multi-arc ion plating. The microstructure, optical properties and thermal stability of the multilayer coating are studied in detail. The optical properties tests show that the absorptance and emittance of the as-deposited coating achieve 0.903 and 0.183, respectively. More importantly, after being annealed at 500 ℃ in air for 1000 h, the absorptance reaches 0.913 and the emittance arrives at 0.199, implying the enhanced selectivity and thermal stability, which are ascribed to the formation of nanolaminates, in which a series of alternating sublayers is observed in the AlCrON absorber. The nanolaminate is a two-phase composite structure composed of layered AlN and Cr2N nanoparticles distributed in amorphous dielectric matrix. According to the finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations, this unique kind of microstructure can trap photons in the coating, which is beneficial to enhancing the interaction intensity and time between the sunlight and absorbing sublayer, and thus improving the absorption of sunlight. In addition, the reduction of particle spacing during annealing will lead to the red shift of extinction spectrum, which will better match the solar radiation spectrum. At the same time, this kind of structure can avoid the agglomeration of nanoparticles, which can simultaneously tune the optical properties and thermal stability.
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Keywords:
- photothermal conversion coatings /
- thermal stability /
- selective absorbing properties /
- microstructure
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图 1 Cr/AlCrN/AlCrON/AlCrO多层金属陶瓷光热转换涂层结构示意图
Figure 1. Schematic diagram of the Cr/AlCrN/AlCrON/AlCrO multi-layer solar spectral selective absorbing coating.
图 2 (a) 阴极电弧等离子体光学照片; (b) 靶面等离子体浓度空间分布示意图; (c) 分层化金属陶瓷光热转换涂层的构筑原理示意图
Figure 2. (a) Distribution of plasma injected into the chamber; (b) spatial distribution diagram of plasma concentration on target surface; (c) schematic diagram of construction principle of layered cermet photothermal conversion coating.
图 3 沉积态与500 ℃、大气条件下退火1000 h后涂层的反射光谱曲线
Figure 3. Reflectance spectra of the coating before and after annealed at 500 ℃ for 1000 h in air.
图 4 沉积态和500 ℃、大气条件下退火1000 h后涂层的GI-XRD图谱
Figure 4. GI-XRD patterns of the coating before and after annealed at 500 ℃ for 1000 h in air.
图 5 500 ℃、大气条件下退火1000 h后涂层的TEM图 (a) AlCrON基光热转换涂层的TEM明场像; (b) AlCrON亚层的HRTEM图; (c), (e) 分别为图(b)中A, B处所对应的FFT图; (d), (f) 分别为图(b)中A, B处所对应的IFFT图
Figure 5. TEM image of the coating after annealed at 500℃ for 1000 h in air: (a) TEM bright field image of AlCrON based photothermal conversion coating; (b) HRTEM of the AlCrON low metal volume fraction absorbing layer; (c), (e) the FFT images of areas A, B denoted in Figure (b), respectively; (d), (f) the IFFT images of areas A, B denoted in b, respectively.
图 6 涂层的表面形貌 (a) 沉积态; (b) 500 ℃、大气条件下退火1000 h后
Figure 6. Surface morphology of the coating: (a) The as-deposited coating; (b) the coating annealed at 500 ℃ for 1000 h.
图 7 FDTD模拟的3D模型图 (a) 同半径颗粒分层化排列; (b) 同半径颗粒随机排列; (c)不同半径颗粒分层化排列; (d) 不同半径颗粒随机化排列
Figure 7. 3D models of FDTD simulations: (a) Layered arrangement of particles with the same radius; (b) random arrangement of particles with the same radius; (c) particles with different radius are arranged in layers; (d) random arrangement of particles with different radius.
图 8 FDTD模拟Cr2N纳米颗粒阵列电场分布图及其吸收、散射光谱图 (a) 同半径颗粒分层化排列; (b) 同半径颗粒随机排列; (c) 不同半径颗粒分层化排列; (d) 不同半径颗粒随机排列; (e) 4种结构的吸收光谱图; (f) 4种结构的散射光谱图
Figure 8. FDTD simulation of the Electric field distribution, absorption and scattering spectra of Cr2N nanoparticle array: (a) Layered arrangement of particles with the same radius; (b) random arrangement of particles with the same radius; (c) layered arrangement of particles with different radius; (d) random arrangement of particles with different radius; (e) absorption spectra of four models; (f) scattering spectra of four models.
图 9 FDTD模拟结果 (a) AlN和Cr2N颗粒相同尺寸的消光光谱; (b) AlN和Cr2N颗粒相同间距的消光光谱; (c) Cr2N颗粒不同尺寸大小的吸收光谱; (d) Cr2N颗粒不同间距大小的消光光谱
Figure 9. FDTD simulation results: (a) Extinction spectra of AlN and Cr2N particles with the same size; (b) extinction spectra of AlN and Cr2N particles with the same spacing; (c) absorption spectra of Cr2N particles with different size; (d) extinction spectra of Cr2N particles with different spacing.
图 10 分层化结构的光谱吸收机理示意图
Figure 10. Schematic diagram of spectra absorbing mechanism of layered structure.
图 11 AlCrON吸收涂层退火过程微观结构演变示意图
Figure 11. Schematic diagram of microstructure evolution of AlCrON absorption coating during annealing.
表 1 分层化金属陶瓷涂层的多弧离子镀制备工艺参数
Table 1. Detailed deposition parameters of layered cermet photothermal conversion coating.
Ar/sccm N2/sccm O2/sccm Time/s Cr 130 0 0 900 AlCrN 100 30 0 90 AlCrON 120 30 10 120 AlCrO 0 0 130 120 
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表 2 500 ℃、大气条件下退火1000 h过程中涂层的吸收率、发射率和PC值
Table 2. Absorptivity, emissivity and PC value of the coating during annealing for 1000 h at 500 ℃ in atmosphere.
Holding time/h α ε α/ε PC 0 0.903 0.183 4.94 — 100 0.909 0.208 4.37 0.00655 200 0.913 0.190 4.81 –0.00655 300 0.913 0.200 4.57 –0.0014 400 0.914 0.194 4.71 –0.0053 500 0.914 0.206 4.43 0.00065 600 0.914 0.201 4.55 –0.0019 700 0.914 0.192 4.77 –0.0065 800 0.915 0.212 4.31 0.0027 900 0.916 0.219 4.18 0.00505 1000 0.913 0.199 4.60 –0.0021
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表 3 沉积态和500 ℃、大气条件下退火1000 h后涂层各层的EDS成分
Table 3. EDS composition of the coating before and after annealed at 500 ℃ for 1000 h in air.
N O Al Cr As-deposited AlCrN 15.15 0 63.00 21.85 AlCrON 6.00 43.06 41.89 9.04 AlCrO 0 54.13 36.99 8.88 Annealed AlCrN 14.43 0 64.63 20.94 AlCrON 6.14 44.20 41.68 7.99 AlCrO 0 54.30 36.72 8.98
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[1] Moon J, Lu D, VanSaders B, Kim T K, Kong S D, Jin S H, Chen R K, Liu Z W 2014 Nano Energy 8 238
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[2] Rebouta L, Sousa A, Andritschky M, Cerqueira F, Tavares C J, Santilli P, Pischow K 2015 Appl. Surf. Sci. 356 203
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