Hydrogen Evolving Solar Cells Based on Transparent Metallic Catalysts on Semiconductors (NOT KNOWN IF PUBLISHED BECAUSE AUTHOR HAS LEFT AT&T)

26 June 1986

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Metals, such as platinum, that absorb and reflect light strongly can be made transparent by engineering their microstructure: when the particles of which the metals consist are much smaller than the wavelength of the light that is to be transmitted, and when these particles are not electrically well interconnected, their light absorption and reflection is reduced by factors between 100 and 1000.