Abstract:
Advances in the studies of metamaterials have pushed the development of invisibility cloaks, which suppress scattering by objects within certain frequency ranges. During recent years, there has been a transition from a purely theoretical consideration of the cloaking effect to its practical implementation. This paper is an overview of the current state of the art in the area of invisibility cloaks. Special emphasis is put on experimental realizations of such devices.
The study was partly financed by the Russian Federation Government (grant 074-U01, contract 11.G34.31.0020), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, and the Dynasty fund.
Received:February 4, 2014 Revised:May 12, 2014 Accepted: July 15, 2014
Citation:
A. V. Shchelokova, I. V. Melchakova, A. P. Slobozhanyuk, E. A. Yankovskaya, C. R. Simovski, P. A. Belov, “Experimental realization of invisibility cloaking”, UFN, 185:2 (2015), 181–206; Phys. Usp., 58:2 (2015), 167–190