Invisibility Cloaking: Methods, Principles, Materials, and Extended Applications

Dear Colleagues,

With the advent of transformation-optics-based light-bypassing cloaking structures and scattering-cancellation-based cloaking structures, a range of cloaking mechanisms have been developed over the past decade. These mechanisms span multiple physical fields and operate across various wavelength ranges, achieving promising experimental demonstrations.

We are pleased to invite you to submit an article to this Special Issue, which aims to gather the latest advances, including mature methods, structures, materials, and expanded applications in cloaking. Specifically, we welcome submissions on novel cloaking techniques and materials, in-depth research on traditional cloaking structures, metamaterials and metasurfaces related to cloaking technology, multi-physics cloaking, and new applications of cloaking in areas such as sensor cloaking, optical illusions, and light path control.

This Special Issue invites original research articles and reviews in a variety of areas, including (but not limited to) the following topics:

• New methods for achieving cloaking.
• Metamaterials and other innovative materials with potential cloaking applications.
• Cloaking mechanisms across various physical fields.
• Cloaking solutions for sensors, antennas, and detectors.
• Transformation optics for cloaking and related optical illusions.
• New applications of cloaking devices. 

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Fei Sun
Dr. Yichao Liu
Guest Editors

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