Broadband electromagnetic cloaking realized with transmission-line and waveguiding structures

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1646-1659

  Alitalo, Pekka ^a   Tretyakov, Sergei A ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic cloak; invisibility; scattering cross section; scattering width

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC CLOAK; ELECTROMAGNETIC CLOAKING; INVISIBILITY; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; SCATTERING WIDTH; SPECIAL CLASS; TRANSMISSION LINE METAMATERIALS; WAVEGUIDING STRUCTURES;

INVISIBILITY CLOAKS;

EID: 80053096001     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2010.2093471     Document Type: Review

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