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Invisibility cloak is drawing much attention due to its special camouflage when exposed to physical field varing from wave (electromagnetic field, acoustic field, elastic wave, etc.) to scalar field (thermal field, static magnetic field, dc…

Optics · Physics 2015-02-02 Chuwen Lan , Yuping Yang , Zhaoxin Geng , Bo Li , Xianglong Yu , Ji Zhou

Artificially structured metamaterials have enabled unprecedented flexibility in manipulating electromagnetic waves and producing new functionalities, including the cloak of invisibility based on coordinate transformation. Here we present…

How to macroscopically control the flow of heat at will is up to now a challenge, which, however, is very important for human life since heat flow is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature. Inspired by intelligent electronic components or…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-25 Xiangying Shen , Ying Li , Jiping Huang , Yushan Ni

We propose a mechanism to actively tune the operation of plasmonic cloaks with an external magnetic field by investigating electromagnetic scattering by a dielectric cylinder coated with a magneto-optical shell. In the long wavelength limit…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-12 W. J. M. Kort-Kamp , F. S. S. Rosa , F. A. Pinheiro , C. Farina

We demonstrate a novel and simple approach to cloaking a scatterer on a ground plane. We use an extremely thin dielectric metasurface ({\lambda}/12) to reshape the wavefronts distorted by a scatterer in order to mimic the reflection pattern…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-31 LiYi Hsu , Thomas Lepetit , Boubacar Kanté

We theoretically and numerically demonstrate that hydrodynamic cloaking can be achieved by simply adjusting the geometric depth of a region surrounding an object in microscale flow, rendering the external flow field undisturbed. Using the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-23 Hongyu Liu , Zhi-Qiang Miao , Guang-Hui Zheng

We demonstrate in this letter a unique approach for watching outside while hiding in a carpet cloaking based on transformation optics. Unlike conventional carpet cloaking, which screens all the incident electromagnetic waves, we break the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jin-Zhu Zhao , De-Lin Wang , Ru-Wen Peng , Mu Wang

We propose a near-cloaking design which is a lamination of a finite number of layers of isotropic materials. The proposed design is an approximation of a cloaking material obtained by pushing forward a multi-coated structure for which the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Eleanor Gemida , Mikyoung Lim

There is currently a great deal of interest in the theoretical and practical possibility of cloaking objects from the observation by electromagnetic waves. The basic idea of these invisibility devices \cite{glu1, glu2, le},\cite{pss1} is to…

Optics · Physics 2008-02-04 Ricardo Weder

Metasurfaces can be designed to achieve prescribed functionality. Careful meta-atom design and arrangement achieve homogeneous and inhomogeneous layouts that can enable exceptional capabilities to manipulate incident waves. Inherently, the…

In this manuscript, we demonstrate the design and experimental proof of an optical cloaking structure which multi-directionally conceals a perfectly electric conductor (PEC) object from an incident plane wave. The dielectric modulation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Muratcan Ayik , Hamza Kurt , Oleg V. Minin , Igor V. Minin , Mirbek Turduev

Non-Euclidean geometry combined with transformation optics has recently led to the proposal of an invisibility cloak that avoids optical singularities and therefore can work, in principle, in a broad band of the spectrum [U. Leonhardt and…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-16 Tomas Tyc , Huanyang Chen , Che Ting Chan , Ulf Leonhardt

A switchable virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) system is proposed using digital optical cloaking. Optical cloaking allows completely opaque VR devices to be "cloaked," switching to AR or MR while providing…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-07 Joseph S. Choi

Electromagnetic metamaterials provide unprecedented freedom and flexibility to introduce new devices, which control electromagnetic wave propagation in very unusual ways. Very recently theoretical design of an "invisibility cloak" has been…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. I. Smolyaninov , Y. J. Hung , C. C. Davis

The cloaking efficiency of a finite-size cylindrical transmission-line cloak operating in the X-band is verified with bistatic free space measurements. The cloak is designed and optimized with numerical full-wave simulations. The reduction…

Invariant transformation for quantum mechanical systems is proposed. A cloaking of matter wave can be realized at given energy by designing the potential and effective mass of the matter waves in the cloaking region. The general conditions…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shuang Zhang , Dentcho A. Genov , Cheng Sun , Xiang Zhang

We introduce the concept and practical design of broadband, ultrathin cloaks based on non-Foster, negatively capacitive metasurfaces. By using properly tailored, active frequency-selective screens conformal to an object, within the realm of…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-05 Pai-Yen Chen , Christos Argyropoulos , Andrea Alu

Radiation forces and torques enable the manipulation of objects with acoustic and electromagnetic waves. Yet, harnessing them in complex scattering media remains a formidable challenge, especially when multiple objects must be controlled…

Diffraction tomography is an inverse scattering technique used to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the material properties of a weakly scattering object. The object is exposed to radiation, typically light or ultrasound, and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Clemens Kirisits , Noemi Naujoks , Otmar Scherzer

The possibility of making an optically large (many wavelengths in diameter) object appear invisible has been a subject of many recent studies. Exact invisibility scenarios for large (relative to the wavelength) objects involve…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yaroslav Urzhumov , David R. Smith