Controlling Electromagnetic Fields
Abstract
Using the freedom of design that metamaterials provide, we show how electromagnetic fields can be redirected at will and propose a design strategy. The conserved fields-electric displacement field D, magnetic induction field B, and Poynting vector B-are all displaced in a consistent manner. A simple illustration is given of the cloaking of a proscribed volume of space to exclude completely all electromagnetic fields. Our work has relevance to exotic lens design and to the cloaking of objects from electromagnetic fields.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- June 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.1125907
- Bibcode:
- 2006Sci...312.1780P
- Keywords:
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- PHYSICS