中国物理B ›› 2024, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (3): 38102-038102.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/acf490
Huolei Feng(丰火雷)1, Xingwei Zhang(张兴伟)2, Limin Zhou(周利敏)1, Yuekai Zhang(张悦凯)2, and Yushan Ni(倪玉山)1,†
Huolei Feng(丰火雷)1, Xingwei Zhang(张兴伟)2, Limin Zhou(周利敏)1, Yuekai Zhang(张悦凯)2, and Yushan Ni(倪玉山)1,†
摘要: Thermal-electric bilayer invisibility cloak can prevent the heat flux and electric current from touching the object without distorting the external temperature and electric potential fields simultaneously. In this paper, we design an omnidirectional thermal-electric invisibility cloak with anisotropic geometry. Based on the theory of neutral inclusion, the anisotropic effective thermal and electric conductivities of confocal elliptical bilayer core-shell structure are derived, thus obtaining the anisotropic matrix material to eliminate the external disturbances omnidirectionally. The inner shell of the cloak is selected as an insulating material to shield the heat flux and electric current. Then, the omnidirectional thermal-electric cloaking effect is verified numerically and experimentally based on the theoretical anisotropic matrix and manufactured composite structure, respectively. Furthermore, we achieve the thermal-electric cloaking effect under a specific direction of heat flux and electric current using the isotropic natural materials to broaden the selection range of materials. The method proposed to eliminate anisotropy and achieve the omnidirectional effect could also be expanded to other different physical fields for the metadevices with different functions.
中图分类号: (New materials: theory, design, and fabrication)