Robustness in design and background variations in metamaterial/plasmonic cloaking

Radio Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Alù, Andrea ^a   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND VARIATION; CANCELLATION EFFECTS; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; NEAR-ZERO PERMITTIVITY; NONRESONANT; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POLARIZABILITIES;

EID: 54749139410     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007RS003815     Document Type: Article

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