"The book covers different harnessing technologies for solar energy, electromagnetic radiation including design principles and different types of spectrally selective coatings. It also emphasizes experimental methods for synthesizing these coating structures and characterization techniques to quantify the absorber characteristics, suitable for solar thermal application(s). It also provides a compact review of the literature on solar (spectrally) selective absorber materials and coatings. This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in solar energy/solar thermal conversion and materials science"--