Electrodynamics of transformation-based invisibility cloaking

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue OCTOBER, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Baile ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Invisibility cloaking; Metamaterials; Transformation optics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878251860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2012.32     Document Type: Review

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