Cloaked electromagnetic, acoustic, and quantum amplifiers via transformation optics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 10169-10174

  Greenleaf, Allan ^a   Kurylev, Yaroslav ^b   Lassas, Matti ^c   Leonhardt, Ulf ^d   Uhlmanne, Gunther ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Field amplifiers; Imaging; Improved cloaking; Invisibility cloaking

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84862976505     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1116864109     Document Type: Article

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