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Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 093901 (2009) [4 pages]

Complementary Media Invisibility Cloak that Cloaks Objects at a Distance Outside the Cloaking Shell

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Yun Lai, Huanyang Chen, Zhao-Qing Zhang, and C. T. Chan
Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

Received 27 November 2008; revised 15 January 2009; published 2 March 2009

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Based on the concept of complementary media, we propose an invisibility cloak operating at a finite frequency that can cloak an object with a prespecified shape and size within a certain distance outside the shell. The cloak is comprised of a dielectric core and an “antiobject” embedded inside a negative index shell. The cloaked object is not blinded by the cloaking shell since it lies outside the cloak. Full-wave simulations in two dimensions have been performed to verify the cloaking effect.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.093901
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.093901
PACS:
41.20.Jb, 42.79.−e