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Large-Area and Flexible Plasmonic Metasurface for Laser-Infrared Compatible Camouflage

Journal

LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS
Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages -

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WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202200616

Keywords

flexible metasurfaces; infrared emission; large-area fabrication; laser reflection; multispectral camouflage

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A flexible plasmonic metasurface is proposed to achieve low reflection and low emission at different wavelengths, suitable for multispectral camouflage. The design includes destructive-interference design and coding metasurface design to realize high absorption and low reflection for different lasers. Additionally, the metasurface possesses advantages such as easy fabrication, mechanical flexibility, and stability.
Due to interminable surveillance and reconnaissance through various sophisticated multispectral detectors, the need for multispectral compatible camouflage is now more than ever. Here, a flexible plasmonic metasurface is proposed to simultaneously realize low reflection at representative lasers (i.e., 1.06, 1.55, and 10.6 mu m) and low emission in the atmosphere windows of both 3-5 and 8-14 mu m. High absorption for both 1.06 and 1.55 mu m lasers is realized by the destructive-interference design of the multilayer Au/Ge/Ti/Ge films, while low reflection for the 10.6 mu m laser results from the coding metasurface design, and low emission is attributed to ultrahigh reflection of the continuous Au/Ge/Ti/Ge films in the atmosphere windows. As a proof of concept, a flexible metasurface sample (10 cm x 10 cm) is prepared by the soft-lithography technology. The measured specular reflectivities are 0.017, 0.13, and 0.17 at wavelengths 1.06, 1.55, and 10.6 mu m, respectively. Meanwhile, the average emissivities are 0.19 and 0.11 in 3-5 and 8-14 mu m, respectively. Additionally, the flexible metasurface also exhibits integrated advantages including easy mass fabrication, good mechanical flexibility and robustness, super-hydrophobic characteristic, unambiguously demonstrating the success of the design strategy for promoting multispectral compatible camouflage.

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