Cloaking receiving and transmitting antennas: Theoretical aspects and applications

In this contribution, we review our latest results about the unprecedented possibilities enabled by electromagnetic cloaking in antenna theory and applications. In particular, we show that, in the receiving regime, cloaking allows designing antennas exhibiting a minimum level of scattering for a given level of absorbed power, whereas, in the transmitting one, cloaking enables the co-sitting of different antennas in a confined region. Both full-wave and experimental results are presented to support the theoretical considerations.