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AssigneesNorthrop Grumman Systems Corporation, University of Southern California
InventorsVladan Jankovic, Philip W. C. Hon, Luke A. Sweatlock, Michael T. Barako, Mark William Knight, Shao-Hua Wu, Michelle L. Povinelli, Ahmed M. Morsy, Mingkun Chen
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Systems and methods are provided for protecting a temperature sensitive object. A system includes a temperature sensitive object and a thermal control material in thermal communication with the temperature sensitive object. The thermal control material has an emissivity that varies as a function of temperature, and includes a substrate comprising a first surface comprising one of a photonic crystal, a metamaterial, a metasurface, and a multilayer film, a solid state phase change material in contact with the surface, and a reflective thin film material at one of a second surface of the substrate, at a surface of the solid state phase change material, and on an opposite side of an optical cavity from the substrate.
A system, comprising:
A method for providing a thermal control material, comprising:
A thermal control material, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.