This document summarizes the experimental demonstration of an array of 2-D broadband invisibility cloaks that operate in the visible light spectrum. The array was fabricated by coating a microlens array with a thin gold film and pressing it against a gold-coated glass slide. Testing showed the cloaked areas appeared as dark circles surrounded by rings when visible light was passed through. However, the angular performance decayed due to a reduction in symmetry from the light not coinciding with the main axes of the array. This was the first experiment to realize an array of invisibility cloaks operating in the visible frequency range.

1. Experimental demonstration of a broadband array of
invisibility cloaks in the visible frequency range

2.  What
are Metamaterials ?
 History of Metamaterials
 Principle and Fabrication
 Applications

3. May 1959

4. What are Metamaterials ?
 Metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to have
properties that may not be found in natural materials.
 They gain their properties not from their composition,
but from their exactingly-designed structures.

5.  Theoretical design by Victor Veselago in 1968.
 Predicted the possibility of opposite properties
for materials by getting negative refractive index.
V.G.Veselago
 Dr. John Pendry showed practical method of
making metamaterials in 1999 .
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In 2009,Vera Smolyaninova and her colleagues
at Towson University and the University of
Maryland have been built a 2-D invisibility-cloak
array which was the first of its kind and operates
in the visible frequency range.
Dr. John Pendry
V.Smolyaninova

7. Metamaterials can :
 create negative index of refraction
 guide wave in desired direction

8. Fabrication Process:
 As a first fabrication step, microlens array
was coated on the microlens side with a 30
nm gold film.
 The array was placed with the gold-coated
side facing down on top of a flat glass slide
coated with a 70 nm gold film.
 Two gold-coated surfaces were pressed
against each other using a mechanical
arrangement.
 Figure(b) shows the deal case scenario light
would propagate through such an array
without scattering.

9.  When a 514nm light propagates through
the array, the cloaked areas appear as
dark circles surrounded by concentric
rings in the experimental images.
 However, the angular performance of
this dense hexagonal cloak array clearly
shows signs of decay/damage
 This decay may be due to the light
direction does not coincide with one of
the three main symmetry axes of the
array which leads to a reduction in the
symmetry of the cloaking arrangement

11. 
This paper reported the first experimental realization of an array
of 2-D broadband invisibility cloaks that operates in the visible
frequency range.
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The broadband performance appears to be similar to the
performance of individual cloaks in the array.
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Almost 20% of the surface area is cloaked in this experiment,
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the angular performance of a dense array shows signs of
decay/damage due to a reduction of the symmetry of the cloaking
arrangement.

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• Farhat M, Chen P-Y, Guenneau S, Enoch S, McPhedran
R,Rockstuhl C and Lederer F 2011 Phys. Rev. B84 235105.
• Smolyaninov I I, Hung Y J and Davis C.C 2008 Opt.Lett.33
1342 44.

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Although we have thorough knowledge of theoretical concept
of invisibility but we have not enough practical
implementation of these concepts.
Security concern is another serious issue.
The tiny structures embedded in the metamaterial would have
to be smaller than the wavelength of the electromagnetic rays
you wanted to bend.