Invisibility and cloaking: Origins, present, and future perspectives

R Fleury, F Monticone, A Alù - Physical Review Applied, 2015 - APS
The development of metamaterials, ie, artificially structured materials that interact with waves
in unconventional ways, has revolutionized our ability to manipulate the propagation of …

Progress and perspective on advanced cloaking metasurfaces: from invisibility to intelligent antennas

S Vellucci, A Monti, M Barbuto, A Toscano… - EPJ Applied …, 2021 - epjam.epj.org
Among the different cloaking applications proposed in the literature, the antenna framework
has emerged as one of the most fruitful and mature field. In particular, mantle cloaking …

Metasurfaces 3.0: a new paradigm for enabling smart electromagnetic environments

M Barbuto, Z Hamzavi-Zarghani… - … on Antennas and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
So far, the environment has been considered as a source of fading, clutter, and blockage,
with detrimental consequences for efficiency and robustness of communication systems …

Intelligence enabled by 2D metastructures in antennas and wireless propagation systems

M Barbuto, Z Hamzavi-Zarghani… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of the next generation of wireless systems is bringing renewed attention to
the physical layer of the communication link. Indeed, the new low-latency requirements …

[HTML][HTML] Mantle cloaking for co-site radio-frequency antennas

A Monti, J Soric, M Barbuto, D Ramaccia… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We show that properly designed mantle cloaks, consisting of patterned metallic sheets
placed around cylindrical monopoles, allow tightly packing the same antennas together in a …

[HTML][HTML] Tunable invisibility cloaking by using isolated graphene-coated nanowires and dimers

M Naserpour, CJ Zapata-Rodríguez, SM Vuković… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We investigate, both theoretically and numerically, a graphene-coated nano-cylinder
illuminated by a plane electromagnetic wave in the far-infrared range of frequencies. We …

Dual-polarized reduction of dipole antenna blockage using mantle cloaks

JC Soric, A Monti, A Toscano, F Bilotti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We theoretically and experimentally explore the use of mantle covers to cloak dipole
antennas and reduce their blockage on nearby antennas. The proposed structures allow …

Multiwavelength multiplexing hologram designed using impedance metasurfaces

Y Li, A Li, T Cui, DF Sievenpiper - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a method to generate microwave holograms using impedance metasurfaces for
multiple simultaneous wavelengths. For recent impedance hologram designs in the …

Wideband elliptical metasurface cloaks in printed antenna technology

G Moreno, AB Yakovlev, HM Bernety… - … on Antennas and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we apply the mantle cloaking method to reduce the mutual coupling between
two closely spaced wideband antennas operating at microwave frequencies. We show that …

Radio-transparent dipole antenna based on a metasurface cloak

J Soric, Y Ra'di, D Farfan, A Alù - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Antenna technology is at the basis of ubiquitous wireless communication systems and
sensors. Radiation is typically sustained by conduction currents flowing around resonant …