In 2006 a team of researchers from Duke
University (N.C.) and Imperial College (London UK) collaborated to perform
the first
demonstration of an electromagnetic cloaking device. Current
SMX personnel were co-authors on this publication.
In the demonstration, a
planar wave was swept around a copper cylinder and reassembled on the
back side with minimal distortion, in such a way as to create the illusion
that the cylinder was "invisible". These properties are defined
by a coordinate manipulation method called transformation
optics.
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