Full control and manipulation of heat signatures: cloaking, camouflage and thermal metamaterials.
Thermal camouflage and cloaking can transform an actual heat signature into a pre-controlled one. A viable recipe for controlling and manipulating heat signatures using thermal metamaterials to empower cloaking and camouflage in heat conduction is demonstrated. The thermal signature of the object is thus metamorphosed and perceived as multiple targets with different geometries and compositions, with the original object cloaked.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117583, Republic of Singapore.
Tiancheng
T
Han
Xue
X
Bai
John T L
JT
Thong
Baowen
B
Li
Cheng-Wei
CW
Qiu
heat transfer manipulation; thermal camouflage; thermal cloak; thermal signature; transformation optics