Multifrequency optical invisibility cloak with layered plasmonic shells.
Here, we theoretically suggest the possibility of employing a multilayered plasmonic shell as a cloak for reducing the total scattering cross section of a particle, simultaneously at different frequencies in the optical domain. By exploiting the frequency dispersion of plasmonic materials and their inherent negative polarizability, it is shown, theoretically and with numerical simulations, how covering a dielectric or conducting object of a certain size with this multilayered cloak may reduce its "visibility" by several orders of magnitude simultaneously at multiple frequencies.
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Andrea
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Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104 PA, USA.
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