Guest Editorial Special Cluster on Recent Advances in Conformal Metasurfaces

Exotic electromagnetic applications such as cloaking and illusions, as well as antenna systems conformal to various platforms, require next-generation metasurface design approaches that can accommodate arbitrarily shaped geometries. Early examples from the mid-2000s, such as holographic impedance surfaces [1] and invisibility cloaks by J.B. Pendry and D. R. Smith, were conformal [2]. Since these examples, significant advancement has been made in the ability to control electromagnetic fields along conformal metasurfaces revealing their true potential to the research community [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15].