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We show that dielectric spheres can be cloaked by a shell of amorphously arranged metallic nanoparticles. The shell represents an artificial medium with tunable effective properties that can be adjusted such that the scattered signals of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-15 Stefan Muhlig , Mohamed Farhat , Carsten Rockstuhl , Falk Lederer

In this paper, we consider near cloaking for the full Maxwell equations. We extend the recent results, where the quasi-static limit case and the Helmholtz equation are considered, to electromagnetic scattering problems. We construct very…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Habib Ammari , Hyeonbae Kang , Hyundae Lee , Mikyoung Lim , Sanghyeon Yu

Solutions for the fields in a coated cylinder where the core radius is bigger than the shell radius are seemingly unphysical, but can be given a physical meaning if one transforms to an equivalent problem by unfolding the geometry. In…

Invisibility cloaking not only catches the human imagination, but also promises fascinating applications in optics and photonics. By manipulating electromagnetic waves with metamaterials, researchers have been able to realize…

Metasurfaces composed of subwavelength unit cells usually require a large number of unit cells which leads to complicated design and optimization. Aggressive discretization in a metasurface can significantly reduce the number of unit cells…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Chu Qi , Alex M. H. Wong

In this study we investigate the directional scattering of terahertz radiation by dielectric cylinders, focusing on the enhancement of directionality using incident radiation of complex-frequency. We explore the optimization of the second…

The classical scenario where a \emph{single plane-wave} field impinge a Dallenbach absorber is well studied both theoretically and experimentally. However, occasionally a \emph{spectrum of plane-waves} impinges the absorber. Such a scenario…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Chen Firestein , Amir Shlivinski , Yakir Hadad

We present an active cloaking method for the parabolic heat (and mass or light diffusion) equation that can hide both objects and sources. By active we mean that it relies on designing monopole and dipole heat source distributions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Maxence Cassier , Trent DeGiovanni , Sébastien Guenneau , Fernando Guevara Vasquez

Inspired by the natural piezoelectric effect, we introduce hybrid-wave electromechanical meta-atoms and meta-molecules that consist of coupled electrical and mechanical oscillators with similar resonance frequencies. We propose an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Leonid Goltcman , Yakir Hadad

While practical realizations of optical invisibility have been achieved so far by various ingenious methods, they generally rely on complex materials which prevent the wide implementation of such schemes. Here, we propose an alternative…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-17 Zeki Hayran , Ramon Herrero , Muriel Botey , Hamza Kurt , Kestutis Staliunas

A perturbation approach is used for analysis of a near-cloak in shielding a finite scatterer from an incident flexural wave. The effect of the boundary conditions on the interior surface of the cloaking layer is analysed in detail, based on…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-01-28 I. S. Jones , M. Brun , N. V. Movchan , A. B. Movchan

Metamaterials have paved the way to unprecedented control of the electromagnetic field1,2. The conjunction with space coordinate transformation has led to a novel "relativity inspired" approach for the control of light propagation.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Boubacar Kante , Dylan Germain , Andre de Lustrac

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…

Coordinate-transformation approaches to invisibility cloaking rely on the design of an anisotropic, spatially inhomogeneous "transformation medium" capable of suitably re-routing the energy flux around the region to conceal without causing…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Giuseppe Castaldi , Ilaria Gallina , Vincenzo Galdi

We present a semianalytical method for designing meta-atoms in multilayered metasurfaces (MSs), relying on a rigorous model developed for multielement metagratings. Notably, this model properly accounts for near-field coupling effects,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-02-01 Shahar Levy , Yaniv Kerzhner , Ariel Epstein

The metasurface concept has emerged as an advantageous reconfigurable antenna architecture for beam forming and wavefront shaping, with applications that include satellite and terrestrial communications, radar, imaging, and wireless power…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 David R. Smith , Okan Yurduseven , Laura Pulido Mancera , Patrick Bowen , Nathan B. Kundtz

Metasurfaces have attracted significant research interest owing to their unprecedented control over the spatial distributions of electromagnetic fields. Herein we propose the concept of metasurface tessellation to achieve reconfigurable…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Xiangdong Kong , Chuanning Niu , Jia Zhao , Zuojia Wang

An accurate method for designing transmissive metasurfaces is presented that provides perfect transmission while transforming the amplitude and phase of the wavefront. The designed metasurfaces consist of three spatially-varying, electric…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Malik Almunif , Jordan Budhu , Anthony Grbic

Interference is the cornerstone of Huygens source design for reshaping and controlling scattering patterns. The conventional underpinning principle, such as for the Kerker effect, is the interference of electric and magnetic dipole and…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-26 Xia Zhang , A Louise Bradley

Realizing metasurfaces for anomalous scattering is fundamental to designing reflector arrays, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and metasurface antennas. However, the basic cost of steering scattering into non-specular directions is not…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-02 Mats Gustafsson