Invisibility Cloaks

Presented By – Kamran Anas Abdulla

190013139003
CSE 3rd yr
Under Guidence – Er. Priyanka Tripathi, Er. Anshu Singh

Faculty Of Engineering & Technology, Lucknow University

 All About: Invisibility Cloak

MANUALLY SCIENTIFICALLY
 Researchers:
 Alinsonorin, Aldwin Jake

 Avelino, Nichole Jonh

 Tabar, Charmaine Marie

 Torres, Cates
 Researchers:
 Trazo, Arman Ann

 Unabia, Sheila Mae

 Villasencio, Vina
Invisibility Cloak
Made possible
 Invisibility Cloak
 Ways to create
-manual way
-scientific way

 Discovery
-recent
-scientist’s insights

 Sources
Way to create Invisibility Cloak
Manual Way
(just to mean literally “invisible”)
 Manual Way
Just to mean literally “invisible”
 Manual Way
 A digital video camera captures the scene
behind the person wearing the cloak.

 The computer processes the captured image or

video so it will look realistic when it is
projected.
Raincoat
 Manual Way
 The projector receives the enhanced image
from the computer and shines it through the
opening onto the combiner.

 The silvered half of the mirror, bounces the

projected image toward the person wearing the
cloak.
 Manual Way
 The cloak acts like a movie screen, reflecting
light directly back to the source.

 Light rays bouncing off the cloak pass through

the transparent part of the mirror and fall on
the user's eyes.
 Manual Way
 The person wearing the cloak appears invisible
because the background scene is being
displayed onto the retro-reflective material.

 It is connected with the idea of OPTICAL

COMOUFLAGE.
 Optical Comouflage
 It means to blend with the surroundings.

 It is the method which allows an organism or

object to remain indiscernible from the
surrounding environment.

 It would only provide invisibility in the visible

portion of the spectrum.
Way to create Invisibility Cloak
Scientific way
(deflecting microwaves)
 Scientific Way
Deflecting microwaves
 Scientific way
 By the use of metamaterials

 Cloak made up of individual pieces of fiber

glass arranged in parallel rows.

 These hollow fibers are motels of photons –

light checks in, but it never checks out
 Scientific Way
 The arrangement of it enables the cloak to
deflect or bend the light making it appear as
nothing.

 This is all about manipulating light.

 This is known as transformation optics.

 Transformation Optics
 A phenomenon that compels
some wavelengths of light to
flow around an objects like
water around a stone.
 Metamaterials
to develop possible future invisibility
 Metamaterials
 It can deflect microwaves around a three-
dimensional object

 It contains bits of metal or other substances

 Embedded in precise patterns

 It can make the light bend in an opposite

direction from normal paths
 Metamaterials
 A manmade composites engineered on a nano
scale with properties entirely different to
anything found in nature.

 Artificially engineered structures with optical

properties that bend light in unnatural ways
Discovery
Recent studies
 Recent Discovery
 As of year 2006, the cloak is now made of
more than 10,000 individual pieces of
fiberglass.

 This new device can cloak much wider

spectrum of waves and will scale far more
easily to infrared and visible light.
 Recent Discovery
 For now the vanishing act takes place on a
nanoscale, measured in billionths of a meter.

 Scientists have created a paper-thin material

that absorbs 99.995 percent of the light that
hits it.
 Recent Discovery
 The invisibility cloak was minute, measuring
100 microns by 30 microns -- one micron
being one-thousandth of a millimeter -- and the
bump it hid was 10 times smaller.
 Discovery
Scientist’s insights
 Scientist’s Insights
 “Cloaking is just the tip of the
iceberg, with transformation optics
you can do many other tricks.”
-Vladimir Shalaev-
(professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue
University and an expert in the fledging field)
 Scientist’s Insights
 “There are a lot of materials that are very
absorbing of light so that once the light gets in,
very little is reflected. That is not the big issue.
The big issue is persuading the light to go in
the first place.”
-John Pendry-
(Physics Professor at Imperial College
London)
 Sir John Pendry
One of the scientist concentrating on
making an invisibility cloak
 Scientist’s Insights
 "What you want to do is to surround yourself
with a transparent material that is not only
transparent but bends the light around you.“

-Doctor Ulf Leonhardt-

(Physicist at Scotland's St. Andrews University)
 Scientist’s Insights
 “It would be possible to make invisibility cloak
on a large scale but technically, it's totally
impossible with the knowledge we have now."
-Nicholas Stenger-
(one of the scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology in Germany )
 Scientist’s Insights
 "The cloak made of metamaterial reduces both
an object's reflection and its shadow, either of
which would enable its detection.“

-David R. Smith-
(Augustine Scholar and professor of electrical and computer
engineering at Duke)
 David R. Smith
One of the scientist concentrating on
making an invisibility cloak
 Applications
(optical comouflage)

 AUGMENTED STEREOSCOPIC VISION IN

SURGERY

 COCKPIT FLOORS

 TRANSPARENT REAR HATCH

 STEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Latest Invention
(optical comouflage)
 Conclusion
(Optical comouflage)

 A lot of interesting thing have been done and

already we have seen that anyone can be
almost invisible with this technology.

 Research work is going on and soon we will

have even more astonishing results.
 Sources
 http://news.discovery.com/tech/invisibility-
cloak-3d.html

 http://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-
cloak.htm

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2008/02/19/AR2008021902
617.html
 Sources
 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/
090501154143.htm

 http://www.imperial.ac.uk/centenary/flash/time
line/images/people/small/pendry.jpg