Monostatic cloaking using electrically thin inhomogeneous media

Abstract

We introduce electrically thin cloaking devices that deflect a plane wave based on the principles of phase compensation and wave interference. An electrically large perfectly conducting object is cloaked by materials that control the phase velocity of the refracted wave. The design is based on gradient index materials to reflect incident waves in different directions resulting in a significant reduction in monostatic radar cross section. Unlike earlier cloaking devices that were constrained by specific geometry and involved complex media, the devices introduced here are electrically thin and can be made conformable to the surface of the structure to be cloaked. Numerical simulations are presented to validate the design concept presented here.