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Electromagnetic Scattering by Approximately Cloaked Cylindrical Bodies Using Homogeneous Isotropic Multi-Layered Materials

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In cloaking, a body is hidden from detection by surrounding it by a coating consisting of an unusual anisotropic nonhomogeneous material. Its function is to deflect the rays that would have struck the object, guide them around the object, and return them to their original trajectory, thus no waves are scattered from the body. The permittivity and permeability of such a cloak are determined by the coordinate transformation of compressing a hidden body into a point or a line.Some components of the electrical parameters of the cloaking material(ε,μ) are required to have infinite or zero value at the boundary of the hidden object. Approximate cloaking can be achieved by transforming the cylindrical body (dielectric and conducting) virtually into a small cylinder rather than a line, which eliminates the zero or infinite values of the electrical parameters. The radially-dependent cylindrical cloaking shell can be approximately discretized into many homogeneous anisotropic layers; each anisotropic layer can be replaced by a pair of equivalent isotropic sub-layers, where the effective medium approximation is used to find the parameters of these two equivalent sub-layers. In this work, the scattering properties of cloaked cylindrical bodies (dielectric and conducting) are investigated using a combination of approximate cloaking, together with discretizing the cloaking material using pairs of homogeneous isotropic sub-layers. The solution is obtained by rigorously solving Maxwell equations using angular harmonics expansion. The scattering pattern, and the back scattering cross section against the frequency are studied for both transverse magnetic (TMz) and transverse electric (TEz) polarizations of the incident plane wave for different transformed body radii.

DOI 10.11648/j.ajea.20130103.11
Published in American Journal of Electromagnetics and Applications (Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2013)
Page(s) 44-52
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Keywords

Scattering by Cylindrical Bodies (Dielectric and Conducting), Cloaking by Layered Isotropic Materials, Approximate Cloaking

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  • Electronics Research Institute – Microwave Engineering Dept.,Egypt

  • Faculty of Engineering – Ain Shams University, Egypt

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