On the cloaking effects associated with anomalous localized resonance

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 462, Issue 2074, 2006, Pages 3027-3059

  Milton, Graeme W ^a   Nicorovici, Nicolae Alexandru P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloaking; Localized resonance; Negative refraction; Superlenses

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750090448     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2006.1715     Document Type: Article

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