Broadband opto-thermal camouflage and infrared encrypted communication via inverse design
Qixiang Chen, Chengcong Li, Zhuning Wang, Zezhao Ju, Jieren Song, Hongtao Lin, Huajie Tang, Chengyue Guo, Yaoguang Ma, Xun Cao, Dongliang Zhao · 2026
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Description
Qixiang Chen and co-authors used computer inverse design in 2026 to build a layered photonic surface that hides objects in visible light and in heat cameras at the same time. The structure draws on a material that flips state with temperature, vanadium dioxide, to change how it gives off infrared energy.
Colour across a wide band can be tuned over much of the print colour range without disturbing heat behaviour. Heat emission switches between two paired states in the two infrared bands. Precise heating also lets the surface send coded messages in infrared that ordinary cameras cannot see. Tests confirmed both hiding and signalling in one platform.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Qixiang Chen, Chengcong Li, Zhuning Wang, Zezhao Ju, Jieren Song, Hongtao Lin, Huajie Tang, Chengyue Guo, Yaoguang Ma, Xun Cao, Dongliang Zhao |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43925 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |