Manipulating the loss in electromagnetic cloaks for perfect wave absorption

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 8467-8475

  Argyropoulos, Christos ^a   Kallos, Efthymios ^a   Zhao, Yan ^a   Hao, Yang ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS;

ABSORPTIVITIES; DISCRETE LAYERS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; NEW DEVICES; OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; SUBWAVELENGTH THICKNESS; WAVE ABSORPTION; WIDE-BAND;

ELECTRIC LOSSES;

EID: 66449129812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008467     Document Type: Article

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