Invisibility Cloaking by Coordinate Transformation

Progress in Optics

Volumn 52, Issue , 2009, Pages 261-304

  Yan, Min ^a   Yan, Wei ^a   Qiu, Min ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cloak; Electromagnetism; invisibility; Maxwell's equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 58049205561     PISSN: 00796638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6638(08)00006-1     Document Type: Review

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