Re: temperature dependent metal reflectance

Pieter Kuiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Nelson) wrote:
> 
> > A while back I learned of a metal that changes from reflective to
> > transparent by changing the temperature.  Can someone help with my
> > memory of this material.
> 
> The cover of Nature (or was it Science?) a while ago showed someting 
> that switched from metallic to transparent. But this was as a function 
> of hydrogen pressure. The hydride was an insulating compound and 
> transparent. I do not remember what metal was used: palladium? vanadium? 
> some alloy?


Here is a page which provides everything you may want to know about Vanadium Oxide.
Thanks to all that responded and helped my failing memory.
This group is great!
Neil.


http://www.solgel.com/articles/August00/thermo/Guzman.htm