Rule of thumb for cloaking bandwidth based on a wave-packet argument

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3516-3520

  Craeye, Christophe ^a   Bhattacharya, Arnab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; cloaking; invisibility; metamaterial

Indexed keywords

CLOAKING; INVISIBILITY; INVISIBILITY CLOAKING; MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; QUALITY FACTORS; RELATIVE BANDWIDTH; RULE OF THUMB; SIMPLE RULES;

BANDWIDTH; GROUP DELAY; METAMATERIALS;

INVISIBILITY CLOAKS;

EID: 84863692896     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2196921     Document Type: Article

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