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Metamaterials are composed of periodic subwavelength metal/dielectric structures that resonantly couple to the electric and/or magnetic components of the incident electromagnetic fields, exhibiting properties that are not found in nature.…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-29 Hou-Tong Chen , Antoinette J Taylor , Nanfang Yu

Ultrafast manipulation of optical resonance can establish the time-boundary effect in time-variant media leading to a new degree of freedom for coherent control of electromagnetic waves. Here, we demonstrate that a free-standing all…

Metadevices based on dielectric nanostructured surfaces with both electric and magnetic Mie-type resonances have resulted in the best efficiency to date for functional flat optics with only one disadvantage: a narrow operational bandwidth.…

Optical dielectric metasurfaces composed of arrayed nanostructures are expected to enable arbitrary spatial control of incident wavefronts with subwavelength spatial resolution. For phase modulation, one often resorts to two physical…

Recently, the complexity behind manipulations of reflected fields by metasurfaces has been addressed showing that, even in the simplest scenarios, non-local response and excitation of auxiliary evanescent fields are required for perfect…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-04 Ana Diaz-Rubio , Junfei Li , Chen Shen , Steven Cummer , Sergei Tretyakov

Active metasurfaces provide unique advantages for on-demand light manipulation at a subwavelength scale for emerging applications of 3D displays, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) glasses, holographic projectors and light detection and…

Metasurfaces are promising two-dimensional metamaterials that are engineered to provide unique properties or functionalities absent in naturally occurring homogeneous surfaces. Here, we report a type of metasurface for tailored…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-21 Jiao Lin , Qian Wang , Guanghui Yuan , Luping Du , Shan Shan Kou , Xiao-Cong Yuan

Manipulation of acoustic wavefronts by thin and planar devices, known as metasurfaces, has been extensively studied, in view of many important applications. Reflective and refractive metasurfaces are designed using the generalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Ana Diaz-Rubio , Sergei A. Tretyakov

Metasurfaces, with their ability to control electromagnetic waves, hold immense potential in optical device design, especially for applications requiring precise control over dispersion. This work introduces an approach to dispersion…

Using metasurfaces to control the wave propagation at will has been very successful over the broad electromagnetic spectrum in recent years. By encoding specially designed abrupt changes of electromagnetic parameters into metasurfaces, such…

We present a general theory for designing realistic omega-type bianisotropic metasurfaces (O-BMSs), unlocking their full potential for molding electromagnetic fields. These metasurfaces, characterized by electric surface impedance, magnetic…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-07 Ariel Epstein , George V. Eleftheriades

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 local phase tuning by subwavelength elements promise unprecedented possibilities for ultra-thin and multifunctional optical devices, in which geometric phase design is widely used due to its resonant-free and large…

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

This work investigates the generation of arbitrary electromagnetic waveforms inside a geometrical area enclosed by an active metasurface. We introduce the contraption of the Huygens' box, where a region of space is enclosed by an active…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Alex M. H. Wong , George V. Eleftheriades

Metasurfaces allow tailored control over electromagnetic wavefronts. However, due to the local conservation of power flow, a passive, lossless, and reflectionless metasurface is limited to imparting phase discontinuities -- and not power…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Brian O. Raeker , Anthony Grbic

Typical acoustic refractive metasurfaces governed by generalized Snell law require several types of subwavelength subunits to provide an extra phase gradient along the surface. This design strategy, however, has several kinds of drawback.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Zhilin Hou , Xinsheng Fang , Yong Li , Badreddine Assouar

The beamforming capabilities of conformal cylindrical Huygens metasurface (HMS) coatings for linear antennas are assessed. It is shown that by engineering the phase-gradient profile of the HMS, the original omnidirectional radiation pattern…

In this study, we investigate the feasibility of designing reconfigurable transmitting metasurfaces through the use of Drude-like scatterers with purely electric response. Theoretical and numerical analyses are provided to demonstrate that…

Although a rigorous theoretical ground on metasurfaces has been established in the recent years on the basis of the equivalence principle, the majority of metasurfaces for converting a propagating wave into a surface wave are developed in…