Near-infrared radiative properties of porous zirconia ceramics

Textural parameters influencing the radiative properties of a semitransparent porous media

“…In other words a high density of smallest bubbles can promote the back scattering of the infrared light. These findings based on Monte Carlo Ray Tracing approach are consistent with earlier results based on an approach combining the Mie scattering theory and the two-flux approximation [9,10] or its enhanced version, [12]. Such a behavior, combined with a highly refractive material, can be used to design appropriate thermal barrier coating where the ability to reject the incident infrared light is required [8,33].…”

The role of beam dispersion in Raman and photo-stimulated luminescence piezo-spectroscopy of yttria-stabilized zirconia in multi-layered coatings

“…The total absorption is proportional to the cross-section of light absorption by a single particle and the density (number per unit volume) of absorbing particles [46]. The smaller value obtained in this set of experiments may indicate that the existence of the pores (15-20% in APS-YSZ [47] and [48]), defects, etc., reduces the density of the equivalent absorptive material.…”

Steam explosion in nuclear reactors: Droplets of molten steel vs core melt droplets

“…The data for optical properties of zirconium dioxide, which is also a component of corium, are also very limited [46][47][48][49][50][51]. There are no data for binary mixtures of uranium dioxide and zirconium dioxide.…”