First experimental demonstration of an isotropic electromagnetic cloak with strict conformal mapping

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ma, Yungui ^a   Liu, Yichao ^a,b   Lan, Lu ^a   Wu, Tiantian ^a   Jiang, Wei ^a   Ong, C K ^b   He, Sailing ^a,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84880381634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02182     Document Type: Article

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