Invisibility cloaks for irregular particles using coordinate transformations

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 6134-6145

  You, Yu ^a   Kattawar, George W ^a   Zhai, Peng Wang ^a   Yang, Ping ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; TENSORS;

COORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS; CUBOIDS; ELLIPSOIDS; INVISIBILITY CLOAKS;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY; LIGHT; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY; LIGHT; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 43049088155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.006134     Document Type: Article

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