Achieving transparency with plasmonic and metamaterial coatings.

@article{Al2005AchievingTW,
  title={Achieving transparency with plasmonic and metamaterial coatings.},
  author={Andrea Al{\'u} and Nader Engheta},
  journal={Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics},
  year={2005},
  volume={72 1 Pt 2},
  pages={
          016623
        }
}
  • A. AlúN. Engheta
  • Published 14 February 2005
  • Physics
  • Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
The possibility of using plasmonic and metamaterial covers to drastically reduce the total scattering cross section of spherical and cylindrical objects is discussed. While it is intuitively expected that increasing the physical size of an object may lead to an increase in its overall scattering cross section, here we see how a proper design of these lossless metamaterial covers near their plasma resonance may induce a dramatic drop in the scattering cross section, making these objects nearly… 
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