Creation of Tunable Homogeneous Thermal Cloak with Constant Conductivity

Abstract

Invisible cloak has long captivated the popular conjecture and attracted intensive research in various communities of wave dynamics, e.g., optics, electromagnetics, acoustics, etc. However, their inhomogeneous and extreme parameters imposed by transformation-optic method will usually require challenging realization with metamaterials, resulting in narrow bandwidth, loss, polarization-dependence, etc. On the contrary, we demonstrate that tunable thermodynamic cloak can be achieved with homogeneous and finite conductivity only employing naturally available materials. The controlled localization of thermal distribution inside the coating layer has been presented, and it shows that an incomplete cloak can function perfectly. Practical realization of such homogeneous thermal cloak has been suggested by using two naturally occurring conductive materials, which provides an unprecedentedly plausible way to flexibly realize flexible thermal cloak and manipulate thermal flow.