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We examine several ways to manipulate the loss in electromagnetic cloaks, based on transformation electromagnetics. It is found that, by utilizing inherent electric and magnetic losses of metamaterials, perfect wave absorption can be…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Christos Argyropoulos , Efthymios Kallos , Yan Zhao , Yang Hao

We study the approximate cloaking via transformation optics for electromagnetic waves in the time harmonic regime in which the cloaking device {\it only} consists of a layer constructed by the mapping technique. Due to the fact that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Hoai-Minh Nguyen , Loc Tran

We present a proof of concept design for a structured square cloak enclosing a void in an elastic lattice, subjected to flexural vibrations. In addition to the theoretical design, we fabricate and experimentally test an elastic invisibility…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-28 D. Misseroni , D. J. Colquitt , A. B. Movchan , N. V. Movchan , I. S. Jones

The cloaking performance of two microwave cloaks, both based on the recently proposed transmission-line approach, are studied using commercial full-wave simulation software. The cloaks are shown to be able to reduce the total scattering…

Optics · Physics 2009-04-21 Pekka Alitalo , Olli Luukkonen , Juan Mosig , Sergei Tretyakov

The onset of transformation optics has opened avenues for designing of a plenitude of applications related to propagation of electromagnetic waves in anisotropic media. In this paper, an algorithm is proposed using a coordinate…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-30 H. H. Sidhwa , R. P. Aiyar , S. V. Kulkarni

The electromagnetic characteristics of plane-transformed invisibility cloaks are quantitatively studied in this paper. We take elliptical cylindrical cloak as the example, and use an elliptical cylindrical wave expansion method to obtain…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yu Luo , Jingjing Zhang , Hongsheng Chen , Lixin Ran , Bae-Ian Wu , Jin Au Kong

A method to derive homogeneous effective constitutive equations for periodically layered elastic media is proposed. The crucial and novel idea underlying the procedure is that the coefficients of the dynamic effective medium can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-04-22 A. L. Shuvalov , A. A. Kutsenko , A. N. Norris , O. Poncelet

Nonmagnetic cloak offers a feasible way to achieve invisibility at optical frequencies using materials with only electric responses. In this letter, we suggest an approximation of the ideal nonmagnetic cloak and quantitatively study its…

Optics · Physics 2010-06-01 Jingjing Zhang , Yu Luo , Niels Asger Mortensen

We consider cloaking by a coated cylindrical system using plasmonic resonance, and extend previous quasistatic treatments to include the effect of finite wavelength. We show that a probe cylinder can still be cloaked at finite wavelengths,…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 N-A P Nicorovici , R C McPhedran , S Enoch , G Tayeb

A theory is presented showing that cloaking of objects from antiplane elastic waves can be achieved by elastic pre-stress of a neo-Hookean nonlinear elastic material. This approach would appear to eliminate the requirement of metamaterials…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-03-16 William J. Parnell

We present a multichannel model for elastic interactions, comprised of an arbitrary number of coupled finite square-well potentials, and derive semi-analytic solutions for its scattering behavior. Despite the model's simplicity, it is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Nirav P. Mehta , Kaden R. A. Hazzard , Christopher Ticknor

Transformation methods have stimulated many interesting applications of manipulating electromagnetic and acoustic waves by using metamaterials, such as super-lens imaging and cloaking. These successes are mainly due to the form-invariant…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Hexuan Gao , Zhihai Xiang

Beginning with a straightforward formulation of electromagnetic cloaking that reduces to a boundary value problem involving a single Maxwell first-order differential equation, explicit formulae for the relative permittivity-permeability…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-01-28 Arthur D. Yaghjian , Stefano Maci

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

Acoustic meta-atoms serve as the building blocks of metamaterials, with linear properties designed to achieve functions such as beam steering, cloaking and focusing. They have also been used to shape the characteristics of incident acoustic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Shahrokh Sepehrirahnama , Sebastian Oberst , Yan Kei Chiang , David A. Powell

Cloaking is a method of making obstacles undetectable. Here we cloak unit cells of a magnetic pattern squeezed into an otherwise periodic pattern from a magnetically driven colloidal flow. We apply a time-periodic external magnetic field…

A new type of simplified cloaks with matched exterior boundaries is proposed. The cloak uses non-magnetic material for the TM polarization and can function with a relatively thin thickness. It is shown that the $zero^{th}$ order scattering…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wei Yan , Min Yan , Min Qiu

We propose a deep learning framework based on an encoder-decoder architecture for the design and evaluation of cloaking devices, demonstrated in this work for two-dimensional wave propagation governed by the Helmholtz equation. The cloaks…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Camille Carvalho , Elsie Cortes , Chrysoula Tsogka , Symeon Papadimitropoulos

Electro-momentum coupling in piezoelectric metamaterials with broken inversion symmetry enables asymmetric elastic wave transport by linking macroscopic electric fields to momentum, an effect analogous to Willis coupling in elastic media. A…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Hrishikesh Danawe , Serife Tol

We discuss the concept of cloaking for elastic impedance tomography, in which, we seek information on the elasticity tensor of an elastic medium from the knowledge of measurements on its boundary. We derive some theoretical results…

Geophysics · Physics 2013-06-20 Andre Diatta , Sebastien Guenneau