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The document discusses metamaterials and how they can be used for electromagnetic cloaking and invisibility. It defines metamaterials and describes how their unique properties like negative refractive index allow bending electromagnetic waves around objects for cloaking. The document also explains different techniques for cloaking like scattering cancellation and discusses applications and software implementation.

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Cloaking and Invisibility

The document discusses metamaterials and how they can be used for electromagnetic cloaking and invisibility. It defines metamaterials and describes how their unique properties like negative refractive index allow bending electromagnetic waves around objects for cloaking. The document also explains different techniques for cloaking like scattering cancellation and discusses applications and software implementation.

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University of Kufa

CLOAKING
&
INVISIBILIT
Y
Presented By: Haider Hasan, Ali Amjad
CONTENTS
• What are Metamaterials?

• Metamaterials in Cloaking & Invisibility

• Cloaking & Invisibility

• How Cloaking & Invisibility Actually works?


What are Metamaterials?
DEFINITION
Metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to have
specific properties that aren’t found in nature.

COMPOSITION
Made from composite materials like metals and plastics,
arranged in repeating patterns.

Unique Property
Metamaterials are engineered to have unique properties such
as negative refractive index, perfect lensing, cloaking, and
perfect absorption.
METAMATERIALS IN EM CLOAKING &
INVISIBILITY
We can use metamaterials to make an object “Invisible” by engineering the metamaterial
to guide the path of EM wave around the object (benefiting from the negative refractive
index property of metamaterials, which makes is invisible in a specified frequency range.
CLOAKING &
INVISIBILITY
DEFINITION
EM Cloaking and Invisibility is a concept in which an object
becomes invisible to a range of frequencies in the
electromagnetic spectrum. This can be achieved by using
metamaterials to manipulate the propagation and transmission
of the desired EM wave. Notice that the object is still present,
but the EM wave is guided around it.
CLOAKING OPERATION PRINCIPLE
To “cloak” an object means to reduce its total scattering cross
section (SCS), ideally to zero. The total SCS is defined as the
ratio of the total scattered power to the incident power density.

The bending of an EM wave, also known as refraction is based


on the principle that the wave travels at different speeds in
different media, this causes the wave to change direction or
bend. The bending is smoothed-out by designing the
metamaterial to have specific refractive index that produces
smooth bending.
TECHNIQUES OF CLOAKING
• Scattering Cancellation Technique

• Coordinate Transformation Technique

• Transmission-line Technique
APPLICATIONS OF CLOAKING

• Military Stealth Technology

• Electronics and Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)

• Energy Efficiency
SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION
We used COMSOL Multiphysics software to implement one of the techniques discussed
previously, which is “Scattering Cancellation Technique”. We’ll make a scatterer object
invisible in a designated frequency (3THz) which belongs to the IR part of the EM spectrum.
CONCLUSION
In the end, Cloaking technology is a very important
technology that has become a reality rather than just theories
and assumptions and has many applications. It is considered
one of the important applications in the field of
communications and one of the unique applications of
electromagnetism. There are many ways to achieve cloaking.
We have explained three methods, and each method has
disadvantages and advantages, and there are developments in
the future.
REFERENCES
• Metamaterials. Aos Al-Waidh. Liverpool John Moores University.

• Electromagnetic Cloaking with Metamaterials. Pekka Alitalo, Sergei Tretyakov. Mar 2009. Volume 12.

• Techniques of Electromagnetic Cloaking. Priyanshu Gandhi, Hemant Kumar.

• Simulation Study of Split Ring Resonators for Electromagnetic Cloaking in X-band. S. R. Hapase, S. L. Chinke.

• A Review of Metamaterial Invisibility Cloaks. Balamati Choudhury, R. M. Jha. 2013. Volume 33.

• Experimental Demonstration of Active Electromagnetic Cloaking. Michael Selvanayagam, George V. Eleftheriades. University of
Toronto. November 2013.

• Koppány (2023). Simulation of transformation optics designed metamaterial for electromagnetic cloaking
(https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/35706-simulation-of-transformation-optics-designed-metamaterial-for-
electromagnetic-cloaking), MATLAB Central File Exchange.
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