We propose and analyze a graphene-based cloaking metasurface aimed at achieving widely tunable scattering cancelation in the terahertz (THz) spectrum. This 'one-atom-thick' mantle cloak is realized by means of a patterned metasurface comprised of a periodic array of graphene patches, whose surface impedance can be modeled with a simple yet accurate analytical expression. By adjusting the geometry and Fermi energy of graphene nanopatches, the metasurface reactance may be tuned from inductive to capacitive, as a function of the relative kinetic inductance and the geometric patch capacitance, enabling the possibility of effectively cloaking both dielectric and conducting objects at THz frequencies with the same metasurface. We envision applications for lowobservable nanostructures and efficient THz sensing, routing and detection.

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In this paper, we present a novel analytical approach for cloaking of dielectric and metallic elliptical cylinders with a graphene monolayer and a nanostructured graphene metasurface at low-terahertz frequencies. The analytical approach is based on the solution of the electromagnetic scattering problem in terms of elliptical waves represented by the radial and angular even and odd Mathieu functions, with the use of sheet impedance boundary conditions at the metasurface. It is shown that scattering cancellation occurs for all incident and observation angles. A special case concerns cloaking of a 2D metallic strip represented by a degenerated ellipse, wherein the focal points of the cloak metasurface correspond to the edges of the strip. The analytical approach has been extended in order to cloak a cluster of elliptical objects for different cases of closely spaced, merging, and overlapping configurations. The results obtained by our analytical approach are validated with full-wave numerical simulations.

In this paper, we extend the idea of reducing the electromagnetic interactions between transmitting radiators to the case of widely used planar antennas in printed technology based on the concept of mantle cloaking. Here, we show that how lightweight elliptical metasurface cloaks can be engineered to restore the intrinsic properties of printed antennas with strip inclusions. In order to present the novel approach, we consider two microstrip-fed monopole antennas resonating at slightly different frequencies cloaked by confocal elliptical metasurfaces formed by arrays of sub-wavelength periodic elements, partially embedded in the substrate. The presence of the metasurfaces leads to the drastic suppression of mutual near-field and far-field couplings between the antennas, and thus, their radiation patterns are restored as if they were isolated. Moreover, it is worth noting that this approach is not limited to printed radiators and can be applied to other planar structures as well.