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Metasurfaces (MSs) have been utilized to manipulate different properties of electromagnetic waves. By combining local control over the wave amplitude, phase, and polarization into a single tunable structure, a multi-functional and…

The metasurface concept has emerged as an advantageous reconfigurable antenna architecture for beam forming and wavefront shaping, with applications that include satellite and terrestrial communications, radar, imaging, and wireless power…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 David R. Smith , Okan Yurduseven , Laura Pulido Mancera , Patrick Bowen , Nathan B. Kundtz

Metasurfaces are promising two-dimensional metamaterials that are engineered to provide unique properties or functionalities absent in naturally occurring homogeneous surfaces. Here, we report a type of metasurface for tailored…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-21 Jiao Lin , Qian Wang , Guanghui Yuan , Luping Du , Shan Shan Kou , Xiao-Cong Yuan

Using metasurfaces to control the wave propagation at will has been very successful over the broad electromagnetic spectrum in recent years. By encoding specially designed abrupt changes of electromagnetic parameters into metasurfaces, such…

Tunable metasurfaces enable active and on-demand control over optical wavefronts through reconfigurable scattering of resonant nanostructures. Here, we present novel insights inspired by mechanical metamaterials to achieve giant tunability…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-31 Freek van Gorp , Wenfeng Liu , Corentin Coulais , Jorik van de Groep

We propose a nonlinear acoustic metasurface concept by exploiting the nonlinearity of the locally resonant unit cells formed by curved beams. The analytical model is established to explore the nonlinear phenomenon, specifically the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Zhenkun Lin , Yuning Zhang , K. W. Wang , Serife Tol

Metasurfaces are nano-structured devices composed of arrays of subwavelength scatterers (or meta-atoms) that manipulate the wavefront, polarization, or intensity of light. Like other diffractive optical devices, metasurfaces suffer from…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-22 Ehsan Arbabi , Amir Arbabi , Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali , Yu Horie , Andrei Faraon

Recently, new artificial material has been proposed to control an electromagnetic wave-metasurface, a two-dimensional metamaterial. Compared with a three-dimensional bulky metamaterial, this artificial plane material with sub-wavelength…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-12 Chong Sheng , Hui Liu , Shining Zhu

In this paper we present the theoretical considerations and the design evolution of a proof-of-concept reconfigurable metasurface, primarily used as a tunable microwave absorber, but also as a wavefront manipulation and polarization…

We have designed and experimentally realized an ultra-broadband acoustic metasurface (UBAM) capable of going beyond the intrinsic limitation of bandwidth in existing designs of optical/acoustical metasurfaces. Both the numerical and…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-05 Yi-Fan Zhu , Xin-Ye Zou , Rui-Qi Li , Xue Jiang , Juan Tu , Bin Liang , Jian-Chun Cheng

Metasurfaces formed of arrays of subwavelength resonators are often tuned to 'critically couple' with incident radiation, so that at resonance dissipative and radiative damping are balanced and absorption is maximised. Such design criteria…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Ory Schnitzer , Rodolfo Brandão

Metasurfaces allow tailored control over electromagnetic wavefronts. However, due to the local conservation of power flow, a passive, lossless, and reflectionless metasurface is limited to imparting phase discontinuities -- and not power…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Brian O. Raeker , Anthony Grbic

Previously reported acoustic metasurfaces that consist of fixed channels, are untunable to meet the broadband requirement and alterable functionalities. To overcome this limitation, we propose screw-and-nut mechanism of tunability and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Sheng-Dong Zhao , Yue-Sheng Wang , Chuanzeng Zhang

Metasurfaces offered great opportunities to control electromagnetic (EM) waves, but currently available meta-devices typically work either in pure reflection or pure transmission mode, leaving half of EM space completely unexplored. Here,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Tong Cai , GuangMing Wang , ShiWei Tang , HeXiu Xu , JingWen Duan , HuiJie Guo , FuXin Guan , ShuLin Sun , Qiong He , Lei Zhou

Metasurfaces, the two-dimensional counterpart of metamaterials, have caught great attention thanks to their powerful capabilities on manipulation of electromagnetic waves. Recent times have seen the emergence of a variety of metasurfaces…

Over the past fifty years, wavefront sensing technology has continuously evolved from basic techniques to high-precision systems, serving as a core methodology in adaptive optics (AO). Beyond traditional wavefront retrieval methods based on…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-13 Rundong Fan , Zichao Wang , Pei Li , Lei Huang

Photonic devices rarely provide both elaborate spatial control and sharp spectral control over an incoming wavefront. In optical metasurfaces, for example, the localized modes of individual meta-units govern the wavefront shape over a broad…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-27 Stephanie C. Malek , Adam C. Overvig , Andrea Alù , Nanfang Yu

Resonant metasurfaces are of paramount importance in addressing the growing demand for reduced thickness and complexity, while ensuring high optical efficiency. This becomes particularly crucial in overcoming fabrication challenges…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-04 Enzo Isnard , Sébastien Héron , Stéphane Lanteri , Mahmoud Elsawy

Metasurfaces, a two-dimensional (2D) form of metamaterials constituted by planar meta-atoms, exhibit exotic abilities to freely tailor electromagnetic (EM) waves. Over the past decade, tunable metasurfaces have come to the frontier in the…

Metamaterials are a new generation of advanced materials, exhibiting engineered microstructures that enable customized material properties not found in nature. The dynamics of metamaterials are particularly fascinating, promising the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Charles Dorn , Vignesh Kannan , Ute Drechsler , Dennis M. Kochmann