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In this paper, we present a general theory of aperiodic subwavelength arrays for controlling electromagnetic waves. The considered platform is formed by an array of electrically small loaded scatterers above a ground plane. While the array…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Yongming Li , Xikui Ma , Xuchen Wang , Sergei A. Tretyakov

Metasurfaces enable efficient manipulation of electromagnetic radiation. In particular, control over plane-wave reflection is one of the most useful features in many applications. Extensive research has been done in the field of anomalous…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Mostafa Movahediqomi , Grigorii Ptitcyn , Sergei Tretyakov

Recent advances in engineered gradient metasurfaces have enabled unprecedented opportunities for light manipulation using optically thin sheets, such as anomalous refraction, reflection, or focusing of an incident beam. Here we introduce a…

Light reflection plays a crucial role in a number of modern technologies. In this paper, analytical expressions for maximal reflected power in any direction and for any polarization are given for generic planar structures made of a single…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-12 Mohamed Ismail Abdelrahman , Francesco Monticone

Reflecting light to a pre-determined non-specular direction is an important ability of metasurfaces, which is the basis for a wide range of applications (e.g., beam steering/splitting and imaging). However, anomalous reflection with 100%…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-16 Tao He , Tong Liu , Shiyi Xiao , Zeyong Wei , Zhanshan Wang , Lei Zhou , Xinbin Cheng

We present a methodology for designing metagratings for perfect anomalous refraction, based on multilayered loaded wire arrays. In recent work, it has been shown that such structures can implement perfect anomalous deflection and beam…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-04-09 Ariel Epstein , Oshri Rabinovich

We present a novel antireflection approach utilizing planar metamaterials on dielectric surfaces. It consists of a split-ring resonator array and a metal mesh separated by a thin dielectric spacer. The coating dramatically reduces the…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-09 H. -T. Chen , J. Zhou , J. F. O'Hara , F. Chen , A. K. Azad , A. J. Taylor

Metasurfaces are paving the way to improve traditional optical components by integrating multiple functionalities into one optically flat metasurface design. We demonstrate the implementation of a multifunctional gap surface plasmon-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Sergejs Boroviks , Rucha A. Deshpande , N. Asger Mortensen , Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

We develop a simple and reliable analytical model that allows describing the electromagnetic response of all-dielectric metasurfaces consisting of a single-layer array of high-permittivity spherical particles. By combining Mie theory with a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Alessio Monti , Andrea Alù , Alessandro Toscano , Filiberto Bilotti

In this paper, we propose a new approach for realizing antireflection coating using metamaterials. In this approach, a subwavelength array of metallic pillars (with square cross-section) is used for implementing antireflection coating. The…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-05 Fahimeh Sepehripour , Parisa Karimi , Amin Khavasi

The concept of metasurface has recently opened new exciting directions to engineer the refraction properties in both optical and acoustic media. Metasurfaces are typically designed by assembling arrays of sub-wavelength anisotropic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-20 Hongfei Zhu , Fabio Semperlotti

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

Planar, disordered assemblies of small particles incorporated in layered media -- sometimes called ``disordered metasurfaces'' in the recent literature -- are becoming widespread in optics and photonics. Their ability to scatter light with…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-08 Kevin Vynck , Armel Pitelet , Louis Bellando , Philippe Lalanne

Metasurface-based optical components are becoming increasingly important due to their unparalleled ability to shape and manipulate electromagnetic waves across a wide range of frequencies, from microwave and terahertz to visible light. In…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-28 Fahim Ferdous Hossain , Yun-seok Choi , Abul K. Azad , John F. O'Hara

Mirrors are ubiquitous in optics and are used to control the propagation of optical signals in space. Here we propose and demonstrate frequency domain mirrors that provide reflections of the optical energy in a frequency synthetic…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-02 Yaowen Hu , Mengjie Yu , Neil Sinclair , Di Zhu , Rebecca Cheng , Cheng Wang , Marko Loncar

Wireless communication using fully passive metal reflectors is a promising technique for coverage expansion, signal enhancement, rank improvement and blind-zone compensation, thanks to its appealing features including zero energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Zhi Yu , Chao Feng , Yong Zeng , Teng Li , Shi Jin

Metasurfaces with planar profile and wave front shaping capabilities would be ideally suitable to improve the performance of acoustic wave-based applications. It is significant that the general Snell's law provides a new approach to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Pai Peng , Meiyu Liu , Pan Li

In analogy with electromagnetic networks which connect multiple input-output ports, metasurfaces can be considered as multi-port devices capable of providing different functionalities for waves of different polarizations illuminating the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Xuchen Wang , Ana Díaz-Rubio , Sergei A. Tretyakov

A thorough theoretical study of the optical properties of periodic Si nanosphere arrays is undertaken, placing particular emphasis on the synergy between electric and magnetic Mie resonances, which occur in high-refractive-index…

An ensemble of resonators arranged on a sub-wavelength scale is usually considered as a bulk effective medium, known as a metamaterial, and can offer unusual macroscopic properties. Here, we take a different approach and limit ourselves to…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-09 S. Metais , G. Lerosey , F. Lemoult