Journal
ACS PHOTONICS
Volume 9, Issue 8, Pages 2742-2747Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c00500
Keywords
Infrared camouflage; phase-transition materials; insulator-metal transition; spectral emissivity design; temperature-independent thermal radiation
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- ONR [N00014-20- 1-2297]
- NSF [1750341]
- AFOSR [FA9550-19-1-0351]
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1750341] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We designed a temperature-dependent coating to counteract changes in blackbody radiation distribution caused by temperature, leveraging the nonhysteretic insulator-to-metal phase transition of SmNiO3. Our coating maintains nearly constant thermal radiance at each wavelength within the long-wave infrared atmospheric-transparency window over a temperature range of at least 20 degrees C. It can conceal thermal gradients and transient temperature changes from infrared imaging systems, including those that discriminate by wavelength.
Both the magnitude and spectrum of the blackbody radiation distribution change with temperature. Here, we designed the temperature-dependent spectral emissivity of a coating to counteract all the changes in the blackbody radiation distribution over a certain temperature range, enabled by the nonhysteretic insulator-to-metal phase transition of SmNiO3. At each wavelength within the long-wave infrared atmospheric-transparency window, the thermal radiance of our coating remains nearly constant over a temperature range of at least 20 degrees C. Our approach can conceal thermal gradients and transient temperature changes from infrared imaging systems, including those that discriminate by wavelength, such as multispectral and hyperspectral cameras.
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