Bendable disordered metamaterials for broadband terahertz invisibility

Liu, Dong; Hong, Yu-Liang; Fan, Ren-Hao; Jing, Hao; Peng, Ru-Wen; Lai, Yun; Huang, Xian-Rong; Sun, Cheng; Wang, Mu

doi:10.1364/oe.384764

Title: Bendable disordered metamaterials for broadband terahertz invisibility

Journal Article · Fri Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2020 · Optics Express

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.384764· OSTI ID:1755942

Liu, Dong ^[1]; Hong, Yu-Liang ^[1];

^[1]; Jing, Hao ^[1]; Peng, Ru-Wen ^[1]; Lai, Yun ^[1]; Huang, Xian-Rong ^[2]; Sun, Cheng ^[3]; Wang, Mu ^[1]

Nanjing Univ. (China)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)

We experimentally demonstrate a bendable cloaking structure composed of obliquely stacked planar metallic shells that individually enclose the objects to be hidden. The ensemble of shells acts as a disordered oblique grating capable of bending along a curved structure and exhibits broadband invisibility from 0.2 to 1.0 THz. Hiding cloaked objects sized hundreds of microns could prevent the detection of certain powders that are sensitive to terahertz waves; such a cloaking structure can also be considered as a shape-changing passageway that transfers the electromagnetic waves without interfering with them. Our approach provides a unique way to achieve broadband electromagnetic invisibility.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China (MOST); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; 2017YFA0303702; 11634005; 11974177; 11604143; 61975078; 11674155

OSTI ID:: 1755942

Journal Information:: Optics Express, Vol. 28, Issue 3; ISSN 1094-4087

Publisher:: Optical Society of America (OSA)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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