Anomalies in light scattering

A Krasnok, D Baranov, H Li, MA Miri… - Advances in Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The scattering of electromagnetic waves lies at the heart of most experimental techniques
over nearly the entire electromagnetic spectrum, ranging from radio waves to optics and x …

Invisibility and cloaking: Origins, present, and future perspectives

R Fleury, F Monticone, A Alù - Physical Review Applied, 2015 - APS
The development of metamaterials, ie, artificially structured materials that interact with waves
in unconventional ways, has revolutionized our ability to manipulate the propagation of …

Structured thermal surface for radiative camouflage

Y Li, X Bai, T Yang, H Luo, CW Qiu - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Thermal camouflage has been successful in the conductive regime, where thermal
metamaterials embedded in a conductive system can manipulate heat conduction inside the …

A full-parameter unidirectional metamaterial cloak for microwaves

N Landy, DR Smith - Nature materials, 2013 - nature.com
Invisibility is a notion that has long captivated the popular imagination. However, in 2006,
invisibility became a practical matter for the scientific community as well, with the suggestion …

Macroscopic invisibility cloak for visible light

B Zhang, Y Luo, X Liu, G Barbastathis - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
Invisibility cloaks, a subject that usually occurs in science fiction and myths, have attracted
wide interest recently because of their possible realization. The biggest challenge to true …

[HTML][HTML] A metasurface carpet cloak for electromagnetic, acoustic and water waves

Y Yang, H Wang, F Yu, Z Xu, H Chen - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
We propose a single low-profile skin metasurface carpet cloak to hide objects with arbitrary
shape and size under three different waves, ie, electromagnetic (EM) waves, acoustic waves …

A perspective on the next generation of invisibility cloaks—Intelligent cloaks

C Qian, H Chen - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Invisibility has been a long-standing topic, owing to its crucial importance in both academia
and industry. At the close of the last century, the advent of metamaterials unprecedentedly …

Pushing the limits of metasurface cloak using global inverse design

N Wu, Y Jia, C Qian, H Chen - Advanced Optical Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The breakthroughs of transformation optics and metamaterials have kick‐started the study of
modern invisibility cloak since the beginning of this century. Many cloaking methodologies …

[HTML][HTML] Ray-optics cloaking devices for large objects in incoherent natural light

H Chen, B Zheng, L Shen, H Wang, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
A cloak that can hide living creatures from sight is a common feature of mythology but still
remains unrealized as a practical device. To preserve the wave phase, the previous …

An ultrathin directional carpet cloak based on generalized Snell's law

J Zhang, Z Lei Mei, W Ru Zhang, F Yang… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Based on generalized Snell's law, we propose an ultrathin directional carpet cloak operating
in the reflection geometry. The cloak is constructed by two identical ultrathin metal-backed …