H. G. Wells's "The Invisible Man" brought the idea of invisibility to the mainstream over a century ago. Not long after, the fascination with invisibility became a hot trope in fantasy and sci-fi ...

Fig. 1 (a)The infrared emissivity curve of Rosaceae plants. (b) Atmospheric window transmission spectrum and ideal device spectrum. (c) Schematic diagram of the multispectral compatible infrared ...

(Nanowerk News) The space industry has seen rapid growth, with satellite launches increasing sharply. By the end of 2023, there were more than 9,850 active spacecraft worldwide, and the annual space ...

Researchers have long sought to develop multifunctional stealth materials capable of evading detection across different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, achieving compatible stealth ...

Infrared camouflage, a critical stealth technology that evades detection by matching its infrared properties to the background, has seen innovative progress reported in PhotoniX by the teams of ...

Under the impact of big data and artificial intelligence, optical detection techniques based on single physical quantities can no longer meet the needs of acquiring multi-dimensional information in ...

Researchers at the University of California at Irvine are working on a next-level kind of camouflage that could make soldiers effectively invisible to infrared detection. The key to the research is ...

Implementation strategies for multispectral-compatible camouflage and schematic illustration of the metasurface. Fabrication and characterization results of the metasurface. The proposed metasurface ...

Thermal camouflage is entering a strange new era in which the goal is not to hide heat, but to reshape it so radically that sensors see something entirely different. Researchers are now demonstrating ...

In a drone-dominated war, camouflage is handmade, adaptive, and local. Here’s what actually works on Ukraine’s front line.