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(麻豆淫院Org.com) -- In a twist on the concept of an invisibility cloak, researchers have designed a material that not only makes an object invisible, but also generates one or more virtual images in its place. Because it doesn't simply display the background environment to a viewer, this kind of optical device could have applications that go beyond a normal invisibility cloak. Plus, unlike previously proposed illusion devices, the design proposed here could be realized with artificial metamaterials.

The team of engineers, Wei Xiang Jiang, Hui Feng Ma, Qiang Cheng, and Tie Jun Cui from Southeast University in Nanjing, China, describes the recently developed class of optical transformation media as 鈥渋llusion media.鈥� As they explain in a new study, any object enclosed by such an illusion medium layer appears to be one or more other objects. The researchers鈥� proposed device is designed to operate at microwave frequencies.

鈥淭he illusion media make an enclosed object appear like another object or multiple virtual objects,鈥� Cui told 麻豆淫院Org.com. 鈥淗ence it can be applied to confuse the detectors or the viewers, and the detectors or the viewers can鈥檛 perceive the real object. As a result, the enclosed object will be protected.鈥�

As the researchers explain, illusion media is similar to an invisibility cloak, except for one main difference. In a perfect invisibility cloak, there are almost no scattering electric fields, so that the illusion space is only free space. In illusion media, on the other hand, the material creates scattered electric field patterns that generate virtual images. Any detector located outside the illusion medium layer will perceive the electromagnetic waves as if they were scattered from a virtual object.

鈥淕enerally speaking, different objects will generate different scattering patterns under the illumination of electromagnetic/optical waves,鈥� Ciu explained. 鈥淗ence a detector can perceive an object according to its scattering pattern. Our illusion media will change the scattering patterns of the enclosed object to make it appear like another object or multiple virtual objects.鈥�

The new illusion media design has an advantage over previously proposed illusion media, in that it should be easier to fabricate. As Ciu explains, this ability is due to how the illusion medium is constructed.

鈥淭he general concept of our illusion media is similar to that of previous illusion media,鈥� Cui said. 鈥淗owever, the previously proposed illusion media are two distinct pieces of metamaterials, which are called complementary medium and restoring medium. The complementary medium is composed of left-handed materials with simultaneously negative permittivity and permeability. As a result, the proposed illusion device is extremely demanding of material parameters, and is hardly realized. Our purpose is to make the illusion media be fairly realizable. All permittivity and permeability components of our illusion media are finite and positive. Hence the presented approach makes it possible to realize the illusion media using artificial metamaterials.鈥�

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