In this article we provide an accessible account of the essential idea behind cloaking, aimed at nonspecialists and undergraduates who have had some vector calculus, Fourier series, and linear algebra. The goal of cloaking is to render an object invisible to detection from electromagnetic energy by surrounding the object with a specially engineered “metamaterial” that redirects electromagnetic ...

Invisibility cloaks have become one of the most outstanding developments among wide range applications in field metamaterials. So far, efforts invisibility science been devoted to achieving practically realizable cloak designs and improving effectiveness these devices reducing their scattering cross-section (SCS), a scalar quantity accounting for total electromagnetic energy scattered by an obj...

The technique of applying form-invariant, spatial coordinate transformations of Maxwell’s equations can facilitate the design of structures with unique electromagnetic or optical functionality. Here, we illustrate the transformation-optical approach in the designs of a square electromagnetic cloak and an omni-directional electromagnetic field concentrator. The transformation equations are descr...

We introduce a novel concept of an inside-out (or inverse) cloak for electromagnetic waves based on the coordinate transformation of Maxwell's equations. This concept can be employed for creating absorbing non-reflecting media as matching layers in numerical simulations. In contrast to the commonly used perfectly matched layers, such absorbing boundaries are characterized by physically meaningf...

Over the past years, invisibility cloaks have been extensively discussed since transformation optics emerges. Generally, the electromagnetic parameters of invisibility cloaks are complicated tensors, yet difficult to realize. As a special method of transformation optics, conformal mapping helps us design invisibility cloak with isotropic materials of a refractive index distribution. However, fo...

In this paper, we present a novel analytical approach for cloaking of dielectric and metallic elliptical cylinders with a graphene monolayer and a nanostructured graphene metasurface at low-terahertz frequencies. The analytical approach is based on the solution of the electromagnetic scattering problem in terms of elliptical waves represented by the radial and angular even and odd Mathieu funct...

Within the past a few years, transformation optics has emerged as a new research area, since it provides a general methodology and design tool for manipulating electromagnetic waves in a prescribed manner. Using transformation optics, researchers have demonstrated a host of striking phenomena and devices; many of which were only thought possible in science fiction. In this paper, we review the ...

An analytical method of electromagnetic wave interactions with a general radially anisotropic cloak is established. It is able to deal with arbitrary parameters [ epsilon r (r) , mu r (r) , epsilon t (r) , and mu t (r) ] of a radially anisotropic inhomogeneous shell. The general cloaking condition is proposed from the wave relations, in contrast to the method of transformation optics. Spherical...

Invisibility devices have captured the human imagination for many years. Recent theories have proposed schemes for cloaking devices using transformation optics and conformal mapping. Metamaterials, with spatially tailored properties, have provided the necessary medium by enabling precise control over the flow of electromagnetic waves. Using metamaterials, the first microwave cloaking has been a...