Cloaking a receiving antenna or a sensor with plasmonic metamaterials

Metamaterials

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 153-159

  Alù, Andrea ^a   Engheta, Nader ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloaking; Metamaterials; Scattering

Indexed keywords

CLOAKING; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; EXTERNAL FIELDS; EXTERNAL SIGNALS; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; SENSING DEVICES; SENSING SYSTEMS;

PLASMONS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; SCATTERING; SENSORS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 77955558214     PISSN: 18731988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metmat.2010.03.005     Document Type: Article

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