Invisible bodies

1975/04/01 by Milton Kerker · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Materials Science · #Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications

paper · doi:10.1364/josa.65.000376

Abstract

An expression is derived for the scattering of electromagnetic radiation by small, nonabsorbing, compound ellipsoids that contain an inner ellipsoidal region and an outer confocal ellipsoidal shell. For certain combinations of dielectric constant, the scattering is zero, thereby rendering the body invisible.

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