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In the wake of intense research on metamaterials the two-dimensional analogue, known as metasurfaces, has attracted progressively increasing attention in recent years due to the ease of fabrication and smaller insertion losses, while…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-22 Fei Ding , Anders Pors , Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

Non-imaging optical lenses can shape the light intensity from incoherent sources to a desired target intensity profile, which is important for applications in lighting, solar light concentration, and optical beam shaping. Their surface…

Optical metasurfaces are planar arrangements of subwavelength meta-atoms that implement a wide range of transformations on incident light. The design of efficient metasurfaces requires that the responses of and interactions among meta-atoms…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-19 Mahdad Mansouree , Andrew McClung , Sarath Samudrala , Amir Arbabi

Optical metasurfaces consist of a 2D arrangement of scatterers, and they control the amplitude, phase, and polarization of an incidence field on demand. Optical metasurfaces are the cornerstone for a future generation of flat optical…

Conventional phased-array metasurfaces utilize resonant nanoparticles or nanowaveguides to specify spatially-dependent amplitude and phase responses to light. In nearly all these implementations, subwavelength-scale elements are stitched…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-17 Jianji Yang , David Sell , Jonathan A. Fan

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

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

We propose a comprehensive field-based semianalytical method for designing fabrication-ready multifunctional periodic metasurfaces (MSs). Harnessing recent work on multielement metagratings based on capacitively-loaded strips, we have…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Vinay K. Killamsetty , Ariel Epstein

We propose a novel numerical approach for the optimal design of wide-area heterogeneous electromagnetic metasurfaces beyond the conventionally used unit-cell approximation. The proposed method exploits the combination of Rigorous Coupled…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Krupali D. Donda , Ravi S. Hegde

Metasurfaces have attracted a lot of attention in recent years due to novel ways they provide for the efficient wavefront control and engineering of the resonant transmission. We discuss an approach allowing effectively control appearance…

There is today a growing need to accurately model the angular scattering response of metasurfaces for optical analog processing applications. However, the current metasurface modeling techniques are not well suited for such a task since…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-04 Karim Achouri , Olivier J. F. Martin

Metasurfaces is an emerging field that enables the manipulation of light by an ultra-thin structure composed of sub-wavelength antennae and fulfills an important requirement for miniaturized optical elements. Finding a new design for a…

Gradient acoustic metasurfaces have shown strong potential for manipulation of acoustic waves across the audible and ultrasonic frequency ranges. The key challenge in designing acoustic metasurfaces is to create a series of sub-wavelength…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Dingcheng Yang , Yan Kei Chiang , David Powell

Metasurfaces with bound states in the continuum (BICs) have proven to be a powerful platform for drastically enhancing light-matter interactions, improving biosensing, and precisely manipulating near- and far-fields. However, engineering…

Metasurfaces in metal/insulator/metal configuration have recently been widely used in photonics research, with applications ranging from perfect absorption to phase modulation, but why and when such structures can realize what kind of…

All-dielectric optical metasurfaces can locally control the amplitude and phase of light at the nanoscale, enabling arbitrary wavefront shaping. However, lack of post-fabrication tunability has limited the true potential of metasurfaces for…

We present a design strategy for selecting the effective polarizability distribution for a metasurface aperture needed to form a desired radiation pattern. A metasurface aperture consists of an array of subwavelength metamaterial elements,…

Sampling is a pivotal element in the design of metasurfaces, enabling a broad spectrum of applications. Despite its flexibility, sampling can result in reduced efficiency and unintended diffractions, which are more pronounced at high…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-18 Seokwoo Kim , Joohoon Kim , Kyungtae Kim , Minsu Jeong , Junsuk Rho

Metasurfaces are promising tools towards novel designs for flat optics applications. As such their quality and tolerance to fabrication imperfections need to be evaluated with specific tools. However, most such tools rely on the geometrical…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-13 LiYi Hsu , Matthieu Dupré , Abdoulaye Ndao , Boubacar Kanté

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMA) provide low-power beamforming through reconfigurable radiative slots. Each slot has a tunable component that consumes low power compared to typical analog components like phase shifters. This makes DMAs a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Joseph M. Carlson , Nitish V. Deshpande , Miguel Rodrigo Castellanos , Robert W. Heath