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Refractive index enhancement is crucial in the field of lithography, imaging, optical communications, solar devices and many more. We present a review of advancements in the process of designing high refractive index metamaterials, starting…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-05 Leena Singh , Weili Zhang

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

In the latest years the optical engineer's toolbox has welcomed a new concept, the metasurface. In a metasurface, properly tailored material inclusions are able to reshape the electromagnetic field of an incident beam. Change of amplitude,…

This article discusses electromagnetic properties of volumetric metamaterial samples with essentially discrete structure, that is, assembled as a periodic array of electromagnetic resonators. We develop an efficient numerical procedure for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Aleksander O. Makarenko , Maxim A. Yurkin , Alexey A. Shcherbakov , Mikhail Lapine

Mesoscale simulations of woven composites using parameterized analytical geometries offer a way to connect constituent material properties and their geometric arrangement to effective composite properties and performance. However, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-21 Collin W. Foster , Lincoln N. Collins , Francesco Panerai , Scott A. Roberts

Mult-layered meta-optics have enabled complex wavefront shaping beyond their single layer counterpart owing to the additional design variables afforded by each plane. For instance, complex amplitude modulation, generalized polarization…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-26 Ahmed H. Dorrah , Joon-Suh Park , Alfonso Palmieri , Federico Capasso

The novel combination of a strongly-resonant optical metasurface with the MoS$_2$/WSe$_2$ hetero-bilayer is proposed for efficient free-space lasing enabled by the enhanced coupling between the optical and matter (exciton) states. The…

We analyze single and multilayered metamaterials by modeling each layer as a metasurface with effective surface electric and magnetic susceptibility derived through a thin film approximation. Employing a transfer matrix method, these…

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

We present an analytical model which permits the calculation of effective material parameters for planar metamaterials consisting of arbitrary unit cells (metaatoms) formed by a set of straight wire sections of potentially different shape.…

Inspired by the ever-increasing demand for higher data transmission rates and the tremendous attention toward all-optical signal processing based on miniaturized nanophotonics, in this paper, for the first time, we investigate the…

Metasurfaces represent one of the most vibrant fields of modern science and technology. A metasurface is a complex electromagnetic structure, that is typically deeply subwavelength in thickness, electrically large in transverse size and…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-01 Yousef Vahabzadeh , Nima Chamanara , Karim Achouri , Christophe Caloz

Metagratings have been shown to form an agile and efficient platform for extreme wavefront manipulation, going beyond the limitations of gradient metasurfaces. Previous approaches for transmissive metagratings have resorted on compound…

We present an alternative scheme for obtaining effective power dissipation in planar composites, extending the recently proposed concept of metagrating (MGs), sparse arrangements of polarizable particles (meta-atoms), to realize…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Yarden Yashno , Ariel Epstein

The sharp increasing in fabrication capabilities of nanomaterials, and complex structures such as meta-surfaces and metalens, has opened to the possibility of employing them for accurately control the electromagnetic field, beyond the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Vincenzo Mottola , Luisa Faella , Carlo Forestiere , Antonello Tamburrino

Shape-morphing metamaterials enable adaptive structures capable of complex functional deformations, with applications ranging from reconfigurable structures and soft robotics to medical devices. However, their design remains challenging due…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jipeng Cui , Wei "Wayne" Chen

Gradient metasurfaces have been extensively applied in recent years for enabling an unprecedented control of light beam over thin optical components. However, these metasurfaces suffer from low efficiency when it comes to bending light with…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-22 Tie-Jun Huang , Li-Zheng Yin , Jin Zhao , Chao-Hai Du , Pu-Kun Liu

Metasurface, a kind of two-dimensional structured medium, represents a novel platform to manipulate the propagation of light at subwavelength scale. In linear optical regime, many interesting topics such as planar metalens, metasurface…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-30 Yutao Tang , Junhong Deng , King Fai Li , Mingke Jin , Jack Ng , Guixin Li

Metasurfaces are extremely useful for controlling and manipulating electromagnetic waves. Full-wave numerical simulation is highly desired for their design and optimization, but it is notoriously difficult, even for two-dimensional…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-21 Fuhao Liu , Ya Yan Lu

We introduce an overlapping-domain approach to large-area metasurface design, in which each simulated domain consists of a unit cell and overlapping regions from the neighboring cells plus PML absorbers. We show that our approach generates…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-08 Zin Lin , Steven G. Johnson