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Simulation, Fabrication and Characterization of THz Metamaterial Absorbers
Published on: December 27, 2012
On the time evolution of the cloaking effect of a metamaterial slab
Meng Xiao1, Xueqin Huang, Jian-Wen Dong
1Department of Physics, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
Abstract:
We investigated the time evolution of the cloaking behavior of a small particle placed in front of a meta-material slab with ε=μ=-1+iδ. We found that the dipole excitation would be suppressed in the long time limit. While on the way to being cloaked, the excitation will exhibit oscillatory behavior as the result of the interference between particle-slab resonances and high density-of-states surface modes.
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