https://doi.org/10.1051/epjam/2016005
Research Article
Manipulating scattering features by metamaterials
1
School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou
730000, P.R. China
2
School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing
210096, P.R. China
3
State Key Laboratory of Millimetre Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing
210096, P.R. China
* e-mail: meizl@lzu.edu.cn
tjcui@seu.edu.cn
Received:
31
March
2016
Accepted:
30
May
2016
Published online: 26 July 2016
We present a review on manipulations of electromagnetic scattering features by using metamaterials or metasurfaces. Several approaches in controlling the scattered fields of objects are presented, including invisibility cloaks and radar illusions based on transformation optics, carpet cloak using gradient metamaterials, dc cloaks, mantle cloaks based on scattering cancellation, “skin” cloaks using phase compensation, scattering controls with coding/programmable metasurfaces, and scattering reductions by multilayered structures. Finally, the future development of metamaterials on scattering manipulation is predicted.
Key words: matematerials / scattering manipulation / cloak / illusion device / transformation optics
© C. Lu et al., Published by EDP Sciences, 2016
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