Spectrally selective solar absorbers based on Cr2O3/Cr/Cr2O3 multilayered coatings were deposited ontostainless steel substrates by using an electron beam physical vapor deposition technique. The structuralinvestigations of the multilayered coatings showed crystalline phase of Cr2O3 after annealing the coatingsat 500 C in air for 2 h. The Raman analysis revealed vibrational modes corresponding to Eg and A1gsymmetries in Cr2O3. The gradual appearance of absorption bands associated with of CreO bondstretching was also observed from the attenuated total reflectance measurement. The Morphology investigationsof the coatings by SEM showed presence of nanoparticles with size ranging from 40 to50 nm in diameter. The AFM also revealed a columnar growth with an average surface roughness of16 nm. The optical analysis of the coatings showed a combination of good solar absorptance of 0.89 andlow thermal emittance of 0.25 at 100 C. These optical properties could arise from a combination ofinterference, and intrinsic effects that occur in the multilayered solar absorber structure. These resultsindicate that a Cr2O3/Cr/Cr2O3 multilayered coating deposited by e-beam evaporation is an excellent thinfilms material for selective solar absorbers application.