Departmental Papers (ESE)

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of this Version

6-8-2009

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Suggested Citation:
Alù, A. and Engheta, N. (2009). "Cloaking a Sensor." Physical Review Letters. 102, 233901.

© 2009 The American Physical Society
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.233901

Abstract

We propose the general concept of cloaking a sensor without affecting its capability to receive, measure, and observe an incoming signal. This may be obtained by using a plasmonic sensor, based on cloaking, made of materials available in nature at infrared and optical frequencies, or realizable as a metamaterial at lower frequencies. The result is a sensing system that may receive and transmit information, while its presence is not perceived by the surrounding, which may be of fundamental importance in a wide range of biological, optics, physics, and engineering applications.

Date Posted: 22 December 2010

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