A thin radar-infrared stealth-compatible structure:Design,fabrication,and characterization

A thin radar-infrared stealth-compatible structure with reflectivity below -10 dB in the whole radar X wave band and infrared emissivity less than 0.3 in the infrared region of 8μm-14 μm is reported. The designed stealth-compatible structure consists of metallic frequency selective surface （MFSS）, resistive frequency selective surface （RFSS）, and metal backing from the top down, and it is only 2. l-mm thick. The MFSS is made up of some divided low infrared emissivity metal copper films, and the RFSS consists of a capacitive array of square resistive patches. They are placed close together, working as an admittance sheet because of a mutual influence between them, and the equivalent admittance sheet greatly reduces the thickness of the whole structure. The proposed stealth-compatible structure is verified both by simulations and by experimental results. These results indicate that our proposed stealth-compatible structure has potential applications in stealth fields.

Asymmetric electric field distribution enhanced hierarchical metamaterials for radar-infrared compatible camouflage

Metamaterials are widely used in electromagnetic radiation and camouflage for their flexible wavefront manipulation and polarization over a broad spectrum ranging from microwaves to optics.However,multispectral compatible camouflage faces significant challenges due to tremendous scale differences of unit cells and desired radiative properties in various spectral regimes.This study assembles a micron-scale infrared emitter,a millimeter-scale microwave absorber,and a metal reflector to propose a hierarchical metamaterial that reduces microwave scattering and reflects low-infrared waves.As a proof of concept,laser etching micro-manufactures an upper infrared shielding layer with a periodic metal pattern.At the same time,bottom square frustum metastructure composites are fabricated and optimized based on genetic algorithms.Under the normal incidence transverse electromagnetic wave with a 90°azimuth angle,the hierarchical strategy and infrared unit create an asymmetric electric field distribution of local near-field coupling,which is conducive to generating additional resonance for broadening the absorption bandwidth.Experiments verify the multispectral camouflage,which shows a high absorption efficiency of more than 90%,ranging from 3.6 to 6.2 and from 8.4 to 18 GHz with a total thickness of 4.05 mm(0.049λmax).Due to the non-reflection of surrounding thermal signals in the infrared 2-22μm region,low-infrared emissivity(0.29)metamaterials can adapt to various thermal backgrounds.This methodology can provide a novel route for fabricating multispectral camouflage devices.

Ultrabroad Microwave Absorption Ability and Infrared Stealth Property of Nano-Micro CuS@rGO Lightweight Aerogels

Developing ultrabroad radar-infrared compatible stealth materials has turned into a research hotspot,which is still a problem to be solved.Herein,the copper sulfide wrapped by reduced graphene oxide to obtain three-dimensional(3D)porous network composite aerogels(CuS@rGO)were synthesized via thermal reduction ways(hydrothermal,ascorbic acid reduction)and freeze-drying strategy.It was discovered that the phase components(rGO and CuS phases)and micro/nano structure(microporous and nanosheet)were well-modified by modulating the additive amounts of CuS and changing the reduction ways,which resulted in the variation of the pore structure,defects,complex permittivity,microwave absorption,radar cross section(RCS)reduction value and infrared(IR)emissivity.Notably,the obtained CuS@rGO aerogels with a single dielectric loss type can achieve an ultrabroad bandwidth of 8.44 GHz at 2.8 mm with the low filler content of 6 wt%by a hydrothermal method.Besides,the composite aerogel via the ascorbic acid reduction realizes the minimum reflection loss(RL_(min))of−60.3 dB with the lower filler content of 2 wt%.The RCS reduction value can reach 53.3 dB m^(2),which effectively reduces the probability of the target being detected by the radar detector.Furthermore,the laminated porous architecture and multicomponent endowed composite aerogels with thermal insulation and IR stealth versatility.Thus,this work offers a facile method to design and develop porous rGO-based composite aerogel absorbers with radar-IR compatible stealth.