Experimental demonstration of active electromagnetic cloaking

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Selvanayagam, Michael ^a   Eleftheriades, George V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM CYLINDERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC CLOAKING; ELEMENTARY SOURCES; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; INCIDENT FIELDS; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; SCATTERED FIELD;

ALUMINUM; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ELECTROMAGNETISM;

FORWARD SCATTERING;

EID: 84893519331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.041011     Document Type: Article

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