Cloaking | Posted on May 1st, 2012 by Phil Kinnane
A couple of our COMSOL users that I previously blogged about in “How we Realized we were Good at Enabling Users to Model Cloaking” has been selected as one of the Journal of Optics ‘TOP 25’ articles for 2011. These were chosen based on being the most downloaded, cited, or of highest quality ranking.
Cloaking | Posted on April 12th, 2012 by Phil Kinnane
We first noticed that COMSOL was being used to model cloaking when an article on BBC’s website was brought to our attention. It related to a paper published by a famous scientist, Sir John Pendry, in Science. In it, he and his two co-authors, David Smith and David Schurig at Duke University, NC, laid out the theory for the cloaking of light and postulated that “a simple demonstration model that could work for radar might be possible within 18 months’ time.” That was in 2006.
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Cloaking | Posted on April 4th, 2012 by Phil Kinnane
I had previously blogged about Thermal Cloaking, which uses layers of aluminum and paper to create an anisotropic structure and cloak a desired object. This differs from the “traditional” type of cloaking, of light and electromagnetic waves, which make use of metamaterials or layered structures that impose a negative refractive index to make the cloaked object appear transparent.
Cloaking | Posted on March 27th, 2012 by Phil Kinnane
As an avid reader of the physorg.com blog, I was pleasantly surprised to see a figure show up that could only have been made with COMSOL Multiphysics. Reading the article on thermal cloaking, I understood why.
