Analysis of uniaxial multilayer cylinders used for invisible cloak realization

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1521-1527

  Ivsic, Branimir ^a   Sipus, Zvonimir ^a   Hrabar, Silvio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic propagation in anisotropic media; Electromagnetic propagation in dispersive media; Electromagnetic scattering by anisotropic media; Electromagnetic scattering by dispersive media

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS APPROACH; ARBITRARY NUMBER; CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS; CONTINUOUS DEPENDENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION IN ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION IN DISPERSIVE MEDIA; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING BY ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING BY DISPERSIVE MEDIA; FILLING MATERIALS; INVISIBLE CLOAKS; MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS; MULTILAYER CYLINDER; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; NARROW FREQUENCY BAND; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPECTRAL-DOMAIN; TOTAL SCATTERING;

ANISOTROPY; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FREQUENCY BANDS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MODAL ANALYSIS; MULTILAYERS;

ELECTROMAGNETISM;

EID: 67349119047     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2016695     Document Type: Article

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