Cloaking devices, electromagnetic wormholes, and transformation optics

SIAM Review

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-33

  Greenleaf, Allan ^a   Kurylev, Yaroslav ^b   Lassas, Matti ^c   Uhlmann, Gunther ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloaking; Electromagnetic wormholes; Invisibility; Transformation optics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIALLY STRUCTURED MATERIALS; CLOAKING; ELECTRO-MAGNETIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WORMHOLES; INVISIBILITY; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; NEW CLASS; STRIKING EFFECTS; TRANSFORMATION LAWS; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; METAMATERIALS; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ELECTROMAGNETISM;

EID: 59849123400     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/080716827     Document Type: Review

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