Do cloaked objects really scatter less?

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Monticone, Francesco ^a   Alù, Andrea ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA; GLOBAL PERFORMANCE; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SCATTERING RESPONSE; SCATTERING SIGNATURES; VERY HIGH FREQUENCY;

INVISIBILITY CLOAKS;

SCATTERING;

EID: 84889783073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.041005     Document Type: Article

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