Hiding under the carpet: a new strategy for cloaking.

By Jensen Li, John B. Pendry. Physical Review Letters, 2008

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A new type of cloak is discussed: one that gives all cloaked objects the appearance of a flat conducting sheet. It has the advantage that none of the parameters of the cloak is singular and can in fact be made isotropic. It makes broadband cloaking in the optical frequencies one step closer.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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Citations in the corpus

Invisibility and Cloaking: Origins, Present, and Future Perspectives (2015, methodology): “[75] J. Li and J. B. Pendry, Hiding under the Carpet: A New Strategy for Cloaking, Phys.”
Transformation Electromagnetics: An Overview of the Theory and Applications (2010, background): “Another class of cloak design, which involves a significantly reduced perturbation under the coordinate transformation, was introduced in [ 23 ].”
Extreme-angle broadband metamaterial lens. (2010, methodology): “For the development of flattened Luneburg lens, we have used the recently introduced technique of quasi-conformal transformation optics (QCTO), which for some transformations can result in a device with identical functionality to a standard transformation-optics design, but can be implemented using ”
Discontinuous Galerkin methods in nanophotonics (2011, methodology): “For example, anisotropic materials provide a way to achieve so-called invisibility cloaking using carpets, cylindrical structures, or more general geometries [7, 106, 107].”