Eur. Phys. J. D 61, 731-736 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2010-10507-2

Reciprocal invisibility cloak based on complementary media

School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650091, P.R. China

Corresponding author: ^a huangming@ynu.edu.cn

Received: 14 September 2010
Revised: 13 November 2010
Published online: 18 February 2011

Abstract

The first invisibility cloak was proposed by Pendry et al. [Science 312, 1780 (2006)]. But the object enclosed in this original cloak is “blind", that is, it cannot see the outside world, since no electromagnetic waves can reach within the cloaked space. Based on the concept of complementary media, we propose a reciprocal invisibility cloak, in which the hidden object can see the outside world, but its presence cannot be detected by electromagnetic wave. The performance of the cloak has been verified by full-wave simulations.