Free-form conformal metasurfaces robustly generating topological skyrmions
Abstract
Skyrmions are topologically stable vector textures as potential information carriers for high-density data storage and communications, especially boosted by the recently emerging meta-generators of skyrmions in electromagnetic fields. However, these implementations always rely on planar, rigid designs with stringent fabrication requirements. Here, we propose the free-form conformal metasurface generating skyrmions towards future wearable and flexible devises for topological resilience light fields. Furthermore, we experimentally tested the outstanding topological robustness of the skyrmion number under different disorder degrees on the metasurface. This work promotes the development of flexible compact skyrmion-based communication devices and demonstrates their potential to improve the quality of space information transmission.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2509.03946,
title = {Free-form conformal metasurfaces robustly generating topological skyrmions},
author = {Yang Fu and Rensheng Xie and Nilo Mata-Cervera and Xi Xie and Ren Wang and Xiaofeng Zhou and Helin Yang and Yijie Shen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.03946},
year = {2025}
}