2008/07/30 by Filiberto Bilotti, Bilotti, Filiberto, S Tricarico +4
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies #FOS: Physical sciences #Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications #Optics (physics.optics) #Radio Wave Propagation Studies #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0807.4945
arxiv created 2008/07/30 · openalex publication_date 2008/07/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper, we present the design of cylindrical and spherical electromagnetic cloaks working at visible frequencies. The cloak design is based on the employment of layered structures consisting of alternating plasmonic and non-plasmonic materials and exhibiting the collective behavior of an effective epsilon-near-zero material at optical frequencies. The design of a cylindrical cloak to hide cylindrical objects is firstly presented. Two alternative layouts are proposed and both magnetic and non-magnetic objects are considered. Then, the design of spherical cloaks is also presented. The full-wave simulations presented throughout the paper confirm the validity of the proposed setup, and show how this technique can be used to reduce the observability of cylindrical and spherical objects. The effect of the losses is also considered.