Approximate Electromagnetic Cloaking of a Dielectric Sphere Using Homogeneous Isotropic Multi-Layered Materials

Hany M. Zamel, Essam El Diwany, Hadia El Hennawy

Electronics Research Institute (ERI), Microwave Engineering Department, Cairo, Egypt.
Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

DOI: 10.4236/jemaa.2013.510060                

Abstract

In cloaking, a body is hidden from detection by surrounding it by a coating consisting of an unusual anisotropic nonhomogeneous material. 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. The radially-dependent spherical 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 dielectric sphere is investigated using a combination of approximate cloaking, where the dielectric sphere is transformed into a small sphere rather than to a point, together with discretizing the cloaking material using pairs of homogeneous isotropic sub-layers. The back-scattering normalized radar cross section, the scattering patterns are studied and the total scattering cross section against the frequency for different number of layers and transformed radius.

Keywords

Approximate Cloaking; Dielectric Sphere; Cloaking by Layered Isotropic Materials

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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