Departmental Papers (ESE)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
11-12-2008
Abstract
In this work we theoretically demonstrate the possibility of cloaking a given object by surrounding it with a finite collection of suitably dimensioned, discrete "antiphase" plasmonic scatterers. It is shown that the total scattering from the object may approximately be canceled by the currents induced on a finite number of the plasmonic "satellite" scatterers, effectively making the whole system invisible to an external observer. Unlike other approaches, the proposed solution allows one to cloak a given object in a noninvasive manner since the antiphase satellites, being finite in number, do not need to fully cover and be in direct contact with the cloaked object.
Keywords
genetic algorithms, plasmons, TRANSPARENCY, METAMATERIAL
Date Posted: 28 May 2009
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
Copyright American Physical Society. Reprinted from:
Cloaking mechanism with antiphase plasmonic satellites Mario G. Silveirinha, Andrea Alu, and Nader Engheta, Phys. Rev. B 78, 205109 (2008), DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.78.205109
Publisher URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.78.205109