Experimental demonstration of a free-space cylindrical cloak without superluminal propagation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Su ^a,b,c,d   Cheng, Xiangxiang ^b   Xi, Sheng ^b   Zhang, Runren ^b   Moser, Herbert O ^e   Shen, Zhi ^b   Xu, Yang ^a,b   Huang, Zhengliang ^f   Zhang, Xianmin ^b   Yu, Faxin ^f   Zhang, Baile ^c,d   Chen, Hongsheng ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; ANISOTROPIC METAMATERIALS; BRANCH CUTS; BROAD BANDWIDTHS; FREE SPACES; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; INVISIBILITY CLOAKING; PLASMONIC; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PROPAGATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; SUPERLUMINAL PROPAGATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

INVISIBILITY CLOAKS;

EID: 84870404803     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.223903     Document Type: Article

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