(2009-Science)Broadband ground-plane cloak.pdf

DOI: 10.1126/science.1166949 , 366 (2009); 323Science et al.R. Liu, Broadband Ground-Plane Cloak (this information is current as of March 29, 2009 ): The following resources related to this article are available online at /cgi/content/full/323/5912/366 version of this article at: including high-resolution figures, can be found in the onlineUpdated information and services, /cgi/content/full/323/5912/366/DC1 can be found at: Supporting Online Material /cgi/content/full/323/5912/366#otherarticles , 3 of which can be accessed for free: cites 18 articlesThis article /cgi/collection/app_physics Physics, Applied : subject collectionsThis article appears in the following /about/permissions.dtl in whole or in part can be found at: this article permission to reproduce of this article or about obtaining reprintsInformation about obtaining registered trademark of AAAS. is aScience2009 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; all rights reserved. The title CopyrightAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science, 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005. (print ISSN 0036-8075; online ISSN 1095-9203) is published weekly, except the last week in December, by theScience o n M a r c h 2 9 , 2 0 0 9 w w w .s c ie n c e m a g .o r g D o w n lo a d e d f r o m Broadband Ground-Plane Cloak R. Liu,1* C. Ji,2* J. J. Mock,1 J. Y. Chin,3 T. J. Cui,3? D. R. Smith1? The possibility of cloaking an object from detection by electromagnetic waves has recently become a topic of considerable interest. The design of a cloak uses transformation optics, in which a conformal coordinate transformation is applied to Maxwell’s equations to obtain a spatially distributed set of constitutive parameters that define the cloak. Here, we present an experimental realization of a cloak design that conceals a perturbation on a flat conducting plane, under which an object can be hidden. To match the complex spatial distribution of the required constitutiv