OxSiCoatTM: Maintaining high reflectance
Maintaining high reflectance
OxSicoat is a totally transparent coating that can be applied in an extremely thin layer of less than one micron. The clarity of OxSicoat means that there is absolutely no degradation of the polished aluminium surface, so there is no impairment to the reflective quality of the polished metal. This is of critical importance for applications such as solar reflectors.
The graph below demonstrates the reflectance of an aluminium sheet manufactured by the Aluminium Coil Anodizing Corporation, before the layer of OxSicoat was applied (the yellow line) and after (the blue line).
There was no measurable decrease in reflectance for all the wavelengths of light tested.
