A Double Layer Electromagnetic Cloak And GL EM Modeling

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel electromagnetic (EM) cloaking structure that consists of two annular layers between three spherical shells and model its performance numerically and theoretically by using a Global and Local EM field (GL) method. The two annular layers contain distinct cloaking materials: the outer layer provides invisibility; the inner layer is fully absorbing. The cloaking materials are weakly degenerative. The wavefield from an EM source located outside the cloak propagates as in free space outside the outer shell, never be disturbed by the cloak and does not penetrate into the inner absorbing layer and concealment. The field of a source located inside inner layer or the cloaked concealment is completely absorbed by the inner layer and never reaches the outside of the middle shell, Moreover, the EM wavefield excited in concealment is not disrupted by the cloak. There exists no Maxwell EM wavefield can be excited in a single layer cloaked concealment which is filled by normal material. Moreover, we find a negative dielectric and positive susceptibility metamaterial to fill into the concealment, such that the interior EM wave propagates from the concealment to free space through the single layer cloak. Therefore, the double layer cloak is important and necessary for complete invisibility. Numerical simulations and theoretical analysis verifying these properties are performed using the GL EM modeling method that we described in this paper.