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Abstract

Invisible cloak with its amazing functions has been turned into reality due to the advent of transformation optics during the past few years. However, the inhomogeneity and singularity of electromagnetic parameters in cloak are still the main bottlenecks for practical realization. In this paper, we propose a scheme of three-dimensional polyhedral invisible cloak to overcome these shortcomings by using a linear homogeneous transformation method. The constitutive parameters of the polyhedral cloak are homogeneous and anisotropic, which are relatively easy for realization. Numerical simulations demonstrate that good invisibility performance can be achieved for any polarization wave. Our work provides a novel approach to simplify three-dimensional cloak in practice.

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