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The paper presents a novel concept of a 3D structural metasurface with mechanically morphing capability that can be used as a transmit- or reflect-array to manipulate electromagnetic beams for applications in RF sensing and communications…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 Aakash Bansal , William Whittow

In this article the physics of horizontally polarized shear waves travelling across a locally resonant metasurface in an unconsolidated granular medium is experimentally and numerically explored. The metasurface is comprised of an…

Based on the Huygens-Fresnel principle we design a planar lens to efficiently realize the interconversion of the point-like source and Gaussian beam in the air ambience. The lens is constructed by a planar plate drilled elaborately with a…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 Kun Tang , Chunyin Qiu , Jiuyang Lu , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

One of the most promising metasurface architectures for the microwave and terahertz frequency ranges consists of three patterned metallic layers separated by dielectrics. Such metasurfaces are well suited to planar fabrication techniques…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-08 Andreas E. Olk , David A. Powell

We introduce a practical dielectric metasurface design for microwave frequencies. The metasurface is made of an array of dielectric resonators held together by dielectric connections thus avoiding the need of a mechanical support in the…

Metasurfaces represent a new frontier in materials science paving for unprecedented methods of controlling electromagnetic waves, with a range of applications spanning from sensing to imaging and communications. For pulsed terahertz…

Huygens' metasurfaces are electrically thin devices which allow arbitrary field transformations. Beam refraction is among the first demonstrations of realized metasurfaces. As previously shown for extreme-angle refraction, control over only…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Michael Chen , Elena Abdo-Sánchez , Ariel Epstein , George V. Eleftheriades

Non-uniform metasurfaces (electrically thin composite layers) can be used for shaping refracted and reflected electromagnetic waves. However, known design approaches based on the generalized refraction and reflection laws do not allow…

Energy conversion in a physical system requires time-translation invariance breaking according to Noether's theorem. Closely associated with this symmetry-conservation relation, the frequencies of electromagnetic waves are found to be…

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

Developments in metamaterials and related structures such as metasurfaces have opened up new possibilities in designing materials and devices with unique properties. The main progress related to electromagnetic waves applications was done…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Rita Schmidt , Alexey Slobozhanyuk , Pavel Belov , Andrew Webb

Conventional acoustic metasurfaces are constructed with gradiently ``local'' phase shift profiles provided by subunits. The local strategy implies the ignorance of the mutual coupling between subunits, which limits the efficiency of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Hua Ding , Xinsheng Fang , Bin Jia , Nengyin Wang , Qian Cheng , Yong Li

Dielectric metasurfaces provide a unique platform for efficient harmonic generation and optical wavefront manipulation at the nanoscale. Tailoring phase and amplitude of a nonlinearly generated wave with a high emission efficiency using…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-03 David Hähnel , Jens Förstner , Viktor Myroshnychenko

Underwater sound isolation has been a long-standing fundamental issue in industry and military fields. Starting from a simple theoretical model, here an air-sealed metasurface is proposed to overcome this problem. Comparing with the sample…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-06-17 Xiaoxue Bai , Chunyin Qiu , Xinhua Wen , Shasha Peng , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

Spatiotemporal metasurfaces, characterized by dynamic variations in both space and time, enable functionalities unattainable with passive metasurfaces. In this study, we propose a novel concept of parametric metasurfaces capable of…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-14 Fedor V. Kovalev , Ilya V. Shadrivov

Waves impart momentum and exert force on obstacles in their path. The transfer of wave momentum is a fundamental mechanism for contactless manipulation, yet the rules of conventional scattering intrinsically limit the radiation force based…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-03 Matthew Stein , Sam Keller , Yujie Luo , Ognjen Ilic

Conventional sound shielding structures typically prevent fluid transport between the exterior and interior. A design of a two-dimensional acoustic metacage with subwavelength thickness which can shield acoustic waves from all directions…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-08-31 Chen Shen , Yangbo Xie , Junfei Li , Steven A. Cummer , Yun Jing

Metasurfaces are an enabling technology for complex wave manipulation functions, including in the terahertz frequency range, where they are expected to advance security, imaging, sensing, and communications technology. For operation in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Michael A. Cole , Aristeidis Lamprianidis , Ilya V. Shadrivov , David A. Powell

Recently, a special class of Huygens' surfaces has been proposed which are capable of manipulation of transmitted wavefronts while exhibiting high transparency over a broad range of frequencies. In this work we propose and study a new…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 M. Londono , A. Sayanskiy , J. L. Araque-Quijano , S. B. Glybovski , J. D. Baena

We introduce the concept and a generic approach to realize Extreme Huygens' Metasurfaces by bridging the concepts of Huygens' conditions and optical bound states in the continuum. This novel paradigm allows creating Huygens' metasurfaces…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-04 Mingkai Liu , Duk-Yong Choi