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Metasurfaces have provided a novel and promising platform for the realization of compact and large-scale optical devices. The conventional metasurface design approach assumes periodic boundary conditions for each element, which is…

The miniaturization of current image sensors is largely limited by the volume of the optical elements. Using a sub-wavelength patterned quasi-periodic structure, also known as a metasurface, one can build planar optical elements based on…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-09 Alan Zhan , Shane Colburn , Rahul Trivedi , Chris Dodson , Arka Majumdar

Metasurface lenses are miniature flat lenses that can precisely control the phase, amplitude, and polarization of incident light by modulating the parameters of each unit on the substrate. Compared with conventional optical lenses, they…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-02 Runhui Zhong , Jinzhong Ling , Yangyang Li , Xudong Yang , Xiaorui Wang

The paper presents partial overview of the mathematical synthesis and the physical realization of metasurfaces, and related illustrative examples. The synthesis consists in determining the exact tensorial surface susceptibility functions of…

A general analytical approach to the study of electromagnetic resonances of metasurfaces consisting of meta-atoms with anisotropic electric and magnetic dipole polarizabilities and irradiated with obliquely incident light is developed in…

The mismatch of acoustic impedance at water-air interface can lead a low transmitted sound energy. In this paper, we propose a discrete metasurface for extreme sound transmission based on the impedance matching theory. By employing topology…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Shao-Cong Zhang , Hong-Tao Zhou , Xiao-Tong Gong , Yan-Feng Wang , Yue-Sheng Wang

The dispersion surfaces of printed periodic structures in layered media are efficiently computed using a full-wave method based on the periodic Method of Moments (MoM). The geometry of the dispersion surface is estimated after mapping the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Denis Tihon , Shambhu Nath Jha , Modeste Bodehou , Christophe Craeye

Flexible control light field across multiple parameters is the cornerstone of versatile and miniaturized optical devices. Metasurfaces, comprising subwavelength scatterers, offer a potent platform for executing such precise manipulations.…

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

Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs) constitute a promising solution for extremely large antenna arrays, requiring lower power consumption and reduced hardware cost as compared to conventional phased arrays. In this paper, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

Many advances in reflective metasurfaces have been made during the last few years, implementing efficient manipulations of wavefronts, especially for plane waves. Despite numerous solutions that have been developed throughout the years, a…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-22 Hamidreza Taghvaee , Fu Liu , Ana Díaz-Rubio , Sergei Tretyakov

Metasurfaces with tunable spatial phase functions could benefit numerous applications. Currently, most approaches to tuning rely on mechanical stretching which cannot control phase locally, or by modulating the refractive index to exploit…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-11 Shane Colburn , Alan Zhan , Arka Majumdar

Nonlinear light sources are central to a myriad of applications, driving a quest for their miniaturisation down to the nanoscale. In this quest, nonlinear metasurfaces hold a great promise, as they enhance nonlinear effects through their…

Recently, metamaterials-inspired diffraction gratings (or metagratings) have demonstrated unprecedented efficiency in wavefront manipulation by means of relatively simple structures. Conventional one-dimensional (1D) gratings have a profile…

Metasurfaces have shown promising potentials in shaping optical wavefronts while remaining compact compared to bulky geometric optics devices. Design of meta-atoms, the fundamental building blocks of metasurfaces, relies on trial-and-error…

The multiplexing capability of metasurfaces has been successfully demonstrated in applications such as holography and diffractive neural networks. However, identifying a suitable structure that simultaneously satisfies the phase…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-12 Chenxuan Xiang , Jumin Qiu , Qiegen Liu , Shuyuan Xiao , Tingting Liu

Metasurfaces have the potential to miniaturize and improve the performance of any optical element, with applications spanning telecommunications, computing and wearable optics. However, the ability to retain functionality over a continuous,…

Metasurfaces provide a compact, flexible, and reliable solution for controlling the wavefront of light. In imaging systems, micro-lens arrays are integrated with pixel matrices to reduce optical crosstalk, enhance photon collection…

Modulation of metasurfaces in time gives rise to several exotic space-time scattering phenomena by violating the reciprocity and generation of higher-order frequency harmonics. We introduce a new design paradigm for time-modulated…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Mohammad Mahdi Salary , Samad Jafar-Zanjani , Hossein Mosallaei

Recent advances in holography, wireless sensing and light fidelity technologies have resulted in the need for antennas that can support highly efficient beam directivity for a broad angular range. Transmitarrays have been shown to be…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-07 Nikolaos Vasilantonakis , Jacob Scheuer , Amir Boag