Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

University of Southern California

Philip W C Hon

Michael T Barako

Vladan Jankovic

Mark William Knight

Luke Sweatlock

Shao-Hua Wu

Michelle L Povinelli

Ahmed M Morsy

Mingkun Chen

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.

Thermal control material

Growing community of inventors

Hawthorne, CA, United States of America

Philip W C Hon