Extreme electromagnetic boundary conditions and their manifestation at the inner surfaces of spherical and cylindrical cloaks

Abstract

Generalized electromagnetic boundary conditions are derived for interfaces containing surface layers of electric and magnetic polarization. Next, the singularities in the fields and polarization densities at the inner surfaces of spherical and circular cylindrical cloaks illuminated by sources inside the cavities of the cloaks are determined from a plane-wave analysis of fields incident on a half space of material characterized by a relative permittivity–permeability dyadic equal to that of the inner material surfaces of the cloaks. Lastly, these singular fields and polarization densities are shown to satisfy the generalized boundary conditions. For sources inside the cloak cavities, it is found that the inner surfaces of spherical cloaks, unlike the inner surfaces of cylindrical cloaks, behave as “DB boundaries” at which $\hat{\text{n}}\cdot \text{D}$ and $\hat{\text{n}}\cdot \text{B}$ are zero.