Hiding under the Carpet: A New Strategy for Cloaking

2008/06/26 by Jensen Li, J. B. Pendry · 13 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Acoustics #Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies #Broadband #Cloak #Cloaking #Computer science #Isotropy #Metamaterial #Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications #Optics #Physics #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.101.203901

published as Physical Review Letters 101, 203901 (2008)

arxiv created 2008/06/26 · openalex publication_date 2008/11/10 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

A new type of cloak is discussed: one that gives all cloaked objects the appearance of a flat conducting sheet. It has the advantage that none of the parameters of the cloak is singular and can in fact be made isotropic. It makes broadband cloaking in the optical frequencies one step closer.

Citations

• Ideal Cylindrical Cloak: Perfect but Sensitive to Tiny Perturbations
• Magnetic Response of Metamaterials at 100 Terahertz

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