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Fabricated cylindrical cloaking shell.


Simulation of fields interacting with an ideal cloaking shell.


My group has been involved in research on how the coordinate transformation invariance of certain wave equations can be exploited to produce specifications for novel materials and devices, such as electromagnetic cloaking shells. Key results we've produced include the first full wave simulations of these materials which demonstrated their experimental feasibility, and the theoretical extension of these concepts to acoustics, in which we showed that acoustic cloaking shells and other devices are also possible.

Electromagnetic and Acoustic Cloaking Papers

  • Rahm, M., D. Schurig, D. A. Roberts, S. A. Cummer, D. R. Smith, J. B. Pendry, Design of electromagnetic cloaks and concentrators using form-invariant coordinate transformations of Maxwell's equations, Photonics and Nanostructures, vol. 6, pp. 87-95, 2008. [pdf reprint]

  • Rahm, M., S. A. Cummer, D. Schurig, J. B. Pendry, and D. R. Smith, Optical design of reflectionless complex media by finite embedded coordinate transformations, Physical Review Letters, v. 100, 063903, 2008. [pdf reprint]

  • Cummer, S. A., D. R. Smith, M. Rahm, J. Pendry, D. Schurig, and A. Starr, Scattering theory derivation of a 3D acoustic cloaking shell, Physical Review Letters, v. 100, 024301, 2008. [pdf reprint]

  • Cummer, S. A., and D. Schurig, One path to acoustic cloaking, New Journal of Physics, v. 9, 45, 2007. [pdf reprint]

  • Schurig, D., J. J. Mock, B. J. Justice, S. A. Cummer, J. B. Pendry, A. Starr, and D. R. Smith, Demonstration of a metamaterial electromagnetic cloak at microwave frequencies, Science, v. 314, p. 977, 2006. [pdf reprint]

  • Cummer, S. A., B.-I. Popa, D. Schurig, D. R. Smith, and J. B. Pendry, Full-wave simulations of electromagnetic cloaking structures, Physical Review E, 74, 036621, 2006. [pdf reprint]


Last update: December 20, 2007