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Although metamaterials have been widely used for controlling elastic waves through bandgap engineering, the directed guidance of stress waves in non-periodic structures has remained a challenge. This work demonstrates that spatially graded…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Charles Dorn , Dennis M. Kochmann

Controlling the polarization and wavefront of light is essential for compact photonic systems in modern science and technology. This may be achieved by metasurfaces, a new platform that has radically changed the way people engineer…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Guowen Ding , Ke Chen , Na Zhang , Junming Zhao , Tian Jiang , Yijun Feng

Reconfigurable metasurfaces are potent platforms to control the propagation properties of light dynamically. Among different reconfiguration mechanisms available at optical frequencies, using non-volatile phase change materials is one of…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-03 Luis Manuel Máñez-Espina , Ana Díaz-Rubio

Conventional surface-relief gratings are inefficient at deflecting normally-incident light by large angles. This constrains their use in many applications and limits the overall efficiency of any optical instrument integrating gratings.…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-19 Ashutosh Patri , Stephane Kena-Cohen , Christophe Caloz

An analytical method for diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave at periodically-modulated graphene sheet is presented. Both interface corrugation and periodical change in the optical conductivity are considered. Explicit expressions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. M. Slipchenko , M. L. Nesterov , L. Martin-Moreno , A. Yu. Nikitin

As a two-dimensional planar material with low depth profile, a metasurface can generate non-classical phase distributions for the transmitted and reflected electromagnetic waves at its interface. Thus, it offers more flexibility to control…

Combining tunable metasurfaces with chaotic cavities opens new avenues for finely tailored dynamic control of microwaves with programmable coding metacavities (PCMs). There is currently a strong interest in utilizing PCMs to overcome the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Philipp del Hougne , Matthieu Davy , Ulrich Kuhl

Metasurface research has shown significant potential for controlling the polarization, amplitude, phase and propagation direction of light. Nevertheless, control over the angular response of incident light still remains a long-standing…

We propose a polarization modulation scheme of electromagnetic (EM) waves through reflection of a tunable metamaterial reflector/absorber. By constructing the metamaterial with resonant unit cells coupled by diodes, we demonstrate that the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Bo Zhu , Yijun Feng Junming Zhao , Ci Huang , Zhengbin Wang , Tian Jiang

Metasurfaces are efficient and versatile electromagnetic structures that have already enabled the implementation of a wide range of microwave and photonic wave shaping applications. Despite the extensive research into metasurfaces, a…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-16 Mustafa Yücel , Francisco S. Cuesta , Karim Achouri

Periodic structures with subwavelength features are instrumental in the versatile and effective control of electromagnetic waves from radio frequencies up to optics. In this paper, we theoretically evaluate the potential applications and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-04 Arya Fallahi , Julien Perruisseau-Carrier

Metasurfaces composed of planar arrays of sub-wavelength artificial structures show promise for extraordinary light manipulation; they have yielded novel ultrathin optical components such as flat lenses, wave plates, holographic surfaces…

The recently proposed bianisotropic acoustic metagratings offer promising opportunities for passive acoustic wavefront manipulation, which is of particular interest in flat acoustic lenses and ultrasound imaging at ultra-high frequency…

In this paper, we realize the concept of analog computing using an array of engineered gradient dielectric meta-reflect-array. The proposed configuration consists of individual subwavelength silicon nanobricks in combination with fused…

We present a rigorous theoretical framework for designing full-space spatial power dividers using metagratings. In our study, the current restrictions of spatial power dividing platforms such as reflection-only performance, operating at…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Hamid Rajabalipanah , Ali Abdolali

In this article, we report, for the first time, broadband multifunctional metasurfaces with more than four distinct functionalities. The constituent meta-atoms combine two different phase change materials, $\mathrm{VO_2}$ and…

This paper presents an analytical framework for the analysis of time-varying metal-based metamaterials. Concretely, we particularize the study to time-modulated metal-air interfaces embedded between two different semi-infinite media that…

Inhomogeneous metasurfaces have shown possibilities for unprecedented control of wave propagation and scattering. While it is conventional to shine a single incident plane wave from one side of these metastructures, illuminating by several…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 F. S. Cuesta , G. A. Ptitcyn , M. S. Mirmoosa , S. A. Tretyakov

Metasurfaces, composed of subwavelength scattering elements, have demonstrated remarkable control over the transmitted amplitude, phase, and polarization of light. However, manipulating the amplitude upon transmission has required loss if a…

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…