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Fully reconfigurable metasurfaces would enable new classes of optical devices that provide unprecedented control of electromagnetic beamforms. The principal challenge for achieving reconfigurability is the need to generate large tunability…

Metasurfaces have been proposed as a new paradigm to manipulate light and improve light-matter interactions. Conventional metasurfaces are restricted to the loss of materials, limiting their performance ceiling. Here, the loss of metallic…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-02 Yisheng Gao

We introduce the concept of a metasurface system able to route space wave via surface waves. This concept may be used to laterally shift or modulate the beam width of scattered waves. We propose two corresponding synthesis techniques, one…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-19 Karim Achouri , Christophe Caloz

One of the important advantages of optical metasurfaces over conventional diffractive optical elements is their capability to efficiently deflect light by large angles. However, metasurfaces are conventionally designed using approaches that…

Metasurfaces have offered unprecedented control over electromagnetic (EM) waves across a wide range of frequency spectrum by manipulating their phase, amplitude, and polarization at subwavelength scales. Full wavefront control using…

This paper presents an end-to-end design method for the synthesis of dielectric metasurfaces with modulated thickness that are able to realize desired radiation patterns in the far-field with high precision. The method relies on integral…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Vasileios G. Ataloglou , George V. Eleftheriades

The advent of acoustic metamaterials opened up a new frontier in the control of sound transmission. A key limitation, however, is that an acoustic metamaterial based on a single local resonator in the unit cell produces a restricted…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 David Roca , Mahmoud I. Hussein

This work presents a new design for broadband absorption of low-frequency acoustic waves using a thin coating made of subwavelength acoustic resonators arranged periodically on a reflective surface. We first study the associated scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Habib Ammari , Yu Gao , Lara Vrabac

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), comprising large numbers of low-cost and almost passive metamaterials with tunable reflection properties, have been recently proposed as an enabling technology for programmable wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Aris L. Moustakas , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah

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

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…

Using RF signals for wireless sensing has gained increasing attention. However, due to the unwanted multi-path fading in uncontrollable radio environments, the accuracy of RF sensing is limited. Instead of passively adapting to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Kaigui Bian , Marco Di Renzo , Zhu Han , Lingyang Song

Boundary-layer instability and transition control have drawn extensive attention from the hypersonic community. The acoustic metasurface has become a promising passive control method. Currently, the effects of the acoustic metasurface on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-25 Yifeng Chen , Peixu Guo , Chihyung Wen

Metasurfaces impart phase discontinuities on impinging electromagnetic waves that are typically limited to 0-2$\pi$. Here, we show that they can break free from this limitation and supply arbitrarily-large phase modulation over ultra-wide…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Odysseas Tsilipakos , Thomas Koschny , Costas M. Soukoulis

In this paper we present the theoretical considerations and the design evolution of a proof-of-concept reconfigurable metasurface, primarily used as a tunable microwave absorber, but also as a wavefront manipulation and polarization…

Optical and acoustic metasurfaces are two-dimensional arrays of subwavelength elements that locally modulate or phase shift incident waves. Acoustoplasmonic metasurfaces combine the physics of light and sound, producing acoustic wavefronts…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Julia E. Holland , Nicholas Boechler , Lisa V. Poulikakos

We propose a simple yet effective method for low-frequency broadband acoustic absorption. The absorber consists of two concentric space-coiling resonators with distinct resonance frequencies, with the inner resonator characterized by a…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-01 Keqiang Lyu , Mohamed Farhat , Ying Wu

Retroreflectors that can accurately redirect the incident wave in free space back along its original channel provide unprecedented opportunities for light manipulation in wireless communication. However, to the best of our knowledge, the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Li-Zheng Yin , Jin Zhao , Ming-Zhe Chong , Feng-Yuan Han , Pu-Kun Liu

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

Recently, an achromatic metasurface was successfully demonstrated to deflect light of multiple wavelengths in the same direction and it was further applied to the design of planar lenses without chromatic aberrations [Science, 347,…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-16 Zi-Lan Deng , Shuang Zhang , Guo Ping Wang