Importance of the singular constitutive parameters of cylindrical cloaks: Illustration on the anticloak concept

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1831-1836

  Blanchard, Cedric ^a,b   Zhang, Baile ^b   Wu, Bae Ian ^b   Portí, Jorge Andrés ^a   Chen, Hongsheng ^b,c   Morente, Juan Antonio ^a   Salinas, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICS;

CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS; CYLINDRICAL CLOAKS; ELECTROMAGNETIC CLOAKING; EXTREME VALUE; NON IDEALS; THEORETICAL MODELING; TRANSMISSION LINE MODEL METHODS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 70249089341     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.001831     Document Type: Article

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