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Q. Hello everyone, I need to replace a ceramic reflector in a Intense Pulse Light (IPL) machine with a metal reflector and I have been looking into electroplating gold, silver or rhodium for my reflective surface. the question is, does anyone have any information on this metals reflectivity index in a graph. Thanks in advance for your help.
Leo BerganzaR&D - Newport Beach, California
2006
A. Lots of reflectivity info available on the Internet. What wavelength and operating environment?
Aluminum (vacuum deposited) and silver are commonly used reflectors. Aluminum is best for far-UV & UV, silver is best for visible & IR. Unless used in vacuum or inert gas, both are usually given protective, transparent oxide 'dielectric' coatings. Aluminum is sometimes used uncoated, as in large reflector telescopes (in locations with clean, dry air), but then stripped and recoated every few years.
For high reflectivity over the entire UV to IR range, with scratch and tarnish protection, the following composite coating is suggested:
Al (base coat), 14 nm thick alumina (diffusion barrier), 25 nm Ag, 110nm alumina, 140nm layer of Sb2O3 or TaO3 (top). Optimal layer thicknesses are a function of wavelength; these values are for 550nm light. From work by Nikos Drakos (University of Leeds), Ross Moore (Macquarie University, Sydney) and James R. Graham (UC-Berkeley).
For uncoated precious metals, rhodium is ~usable at low wavelengths (below 550 nm, green light) although not nearly as good as Al. Gold is good at higher wavelengths, as good as silver for IR and above.
- Goleta, California
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2006
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