Can I supply image icons in Java in a higher resolution to avoid blurred icons after scaling?

Question

I am designing a GUI with Java Swing and AWT (Java 8) and am struggling with the icons I use.

I load a large PNG image and scale it to 18x18px and then use it in a button or label. It works well in all resolutions when the operating system does not zoom in.

However, with the advent of large screen resolutions (hidpi), it is common practice to use operating system settings to zoom in on user interface controls, including buttons and such things in Java applications. For example, on Windows I use a 150% or 200% scaling of user elements with my 4K resolution to ensure the user interface is still usable. I imagine many users will do so as well.

When that is the case, however, the icons are merely increased in size after already scaling them down to 18x18px. That is, I first scale them down and then the operating system tries to scale them up again with the little information that is still left in the image.

Is there any way to design image icons in Java that are based on a higher resolution when the zooming/scaling capabilities of the operating system are used in order to avoid them appearing blurred?

Here is a working example:

import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Image;

import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
class Example extends JFrame {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new Example();
    }
    
    public Example() {
        Container c = getContentPane();
        JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("tabler-icon-beach.png")).getImage().getScaledInstance(18, 18, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH));
        JButton button = new JButton("Test button", icon);
        panel.add(button);
        c.add(panel);
        this.pack();
        this.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        this.setVisible(true);
    }
}

You can find the icon here. All icons are available as PNG or SVG files.

To illustrate the problem, let me first show you two screenshots in the normal 100% screen resolution:

On Linux with 100% zoom:

On Windows with 100% zoom:

And now when I set Windows 7 to have a 200% magnification of layout elements, it's obviously just the 18x18px version stretched out, which becomes blurred:

Is there any way to provide a higher-resolution image icon that is used when the operating system uses a scaling that is larger than 100%? Moreover, you can see that even at 100% the image quality is not perfect; is there any way to improve that as well?