Development of a Wideband Bi-layered Mantle-Cloak for Perfect Electric Conductor Cylindrical Objects under Obliquely Incident Plane Wave

Abstract

This paper presents a mantle cloak structure to provide a wideband capability to hide a metallic cylinder over a broad span of angles of obliquely impinging plane waves. A bi-layered dielectric structure and a sheet of metasurface are used to enclose the object to be hidden. At first, the scattered field, including co- and cross-polarized components, is analytically formulated using circumferential waves for a multi-layer wrap around the cylinder. A tensor description is also applied to model the impedance of the metasurface for TE and TM waves. Then, a metasurface made of rectangular patches is considered, and its related parameters are optimized to hide a perfect electric conductor (PEC) cylinder. Moreover, a double-layered mantle cloak is presented and numerically investigated using a software package to enhance its cloaking bandwidth. The numerical results show that the clocking bandwidth is enhanced by up to 33% compared to that of a single-layered structure.