Broadband surface-wave transformation cloak

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 7635-7638

  Xu, Su ^a,b   Xu, Hongyi ^c,d   Gao, Hanhong ^e   Jiang, Yuyu ^a,b   Yu, Faxin ^f   Joannopoulos, John D ^g   Soljačić, Marin ^g   Chen, Hongsheng ^a,b,g   Sun, Handong ^c,d   Zhang, Baile ^c,d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^f ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband; Invisibility cloaks; Surface wave; Transformation optics

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISIBILITY;

EID: 84935032019     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1508777112     Document Type: Article

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