3 papers
physics.app-ph2026
Variable Emissivity Modeling for Sustainable Lunar Surface Habitats
S. Keller, S. Stewart, S. Taylor +1
Lunar habitats will be one of the first platforms to enable long-term human presence beyond Low Earth Orbit. These structures act as a stepping stone for exploring our solar system…
physics.app-ph2025
Reducing Temperature Swing and Rectifying Radiative Heat Transfer for Passive Dynamic Space Thermal Control with Variable-Emittance Coatings
Liping Wang, Neal Boman, Sydney Taylor +1
Dynamic radiative thermal control is crucial for normal operation and energy saving of spacecraft that copes with changing thermal environment involving heat dissipation to cold de…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
Lowering Insulator-to-Metal Transition Temperature of Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films via Co-Sputtering, Furnace Oxidation and Thermal Annealing
Vishwa Krishna Rajan, Jeremy Chao, Sydney Taylor +1
Thermochromic vanadium dioxide thin films have attracted much attention recently for constructing variable-emittance coatings upon its insulator-metal phase transition for dynamic…