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We present circuit-loaded metasurfaces that behave differently in a passive manner even at the same frequency in accordance with the incoming waveform, specifically, its pulse width. Importantly, the time-varying waveform-selective…

Actively tunable and reconfigurable wavefront shaping by optical metasurfaces poses a significant technical challenge often requiring unconventional materials engineering and nanofabrication. Most wavefront-shaping metasurfaces can be…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-24 Stephanie C. Malek , Adam C. Overvig , Sajan Shrestha , Nanfang Yu

Spatiotemporal metasurfaces, characterized by dynamic variations in both space and time, enable functionalities unattainable with passive metasurfaces. In this study, we propose a novel concept of parametric metasurfaces capable of…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-14 Fedor V. Kovalev , Ilya V. Shadrivov

Metamaterials and metasurfaces have given possibilities for manipulating electromagnetic (EM) waves that in the past would have seemed impossible. The majority of metasurface designs are suitable for a particular frequency and angle of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-10 Loukas Petrou , Petros Karousios , Julius Georgiou

Dynamic polarization control of light is essential for numerous applications ranging from enhanced imaging to materials characterization and identification. We present a reconfigurable terahertz metasurface quarter-waveplate consisting of…

Metasurfaces, composed of subwavelength electromagnetic microstructures, known as meta-atoms, are capable of reshaping the wavefronts of incident beams in desired manners, making them great candidates for revolutionizing conventional…

Digital metasurfaces have attracted significant attention in recent years due to their ability to manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves for secure sensing and communication. However, most reported metasurfaces operate at relatively high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Longpan Wang , Zhuoran Zhang , Zhenyuan Li , Xuetao Gan , Xudong Bai , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu

During the past few years, metasurfaces have been used to demonstrate optical elements and systems with capabilities that surpass those of conventional diffractive optics. Here we review some of these recent developments with a focus on…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-27 Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali , Ehsan Arbabi , Amir Arbabi , Andrei Faraon

Metasurfaces offered great opportunities to control electromagnetic (EM) waves, but currently available meta-devices typically work either in pure reflection or pure transmission mode, leaving half of EM space completely unexplored. Here,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Tong Cai , GuangMing Wang , ShiWei Tang , HeXiu Xu , JingWen Duan , HuiJie Guo , FuXin Guan , ShuLin Sun , Qiong He , Lei Zhou

Control of electromagnetic waves using engineered materials is very important in a wide range of applications, therefore there is always a continuous need for new and more efficient solutions. Known natural and artificial materials and…

With the versatile manipulation capability, programmable metasurfaces are rapidly advancing in their intelligence, integration, and commercialization levels. However, as the programmable metasurfaces scale up, their control configuration…

Acoustic vibrations at the nanoscale (GHz-THz frequencies) and their interactions with electrons, photons and other excitations are the heart of an emerging field in physics: nanophononics. The design of ultrahigh frequency acoustic-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura , K. P. O'Brien , J. Rho , H. Suchowski , X. Yin , X. Zhang

Active metasurfaces, which are arrays of actively tunable resonant elements, can dynamically control the wavefront of the scattered light at a subwavelength scale. To date, most active metasurfaces that enable dynamic wavefront shaping…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Ruzan Sokhoyan , Claudio U. Hail , Morgan Foley , Meir Y. Grajower , Harry A. Atwater

In elastic wave systems, combining the powerful concepts of resonance and spatial grading within structured surface arrays enable resonant metasurfaces to exhibit broadband wave focusing, mode conversion from surface (Rayleigh) waves to…

Recent years have heralded the introduction of metasurfaces that advantageously combine the vision of sub- wavelength wave manipulation, with the design, fabrication and size advantages associated with surface excitation. An important topic…

Dielectric metasurfaces provide a unique platform for efficient harmonic generation and optical wavefront manipulation at the nanoscale. Tailoring phase and amplitude of a nonlinearly generated wave with a high emission efficiency using…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-03 David Hähnel , Jens Förstner , Viktor Myroshnychenko

This study presents a tunable phase-modulated metasurface composed of periodically distributed piezoelectric patches with resonant-type shunt circuits. The fully coupled electromechanical model is established to study the transmission…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Zhenkun Lin , Serife Tol

Metasurfaces' ability to control electromagnetic wave propagation has led to a rapid paradigm shift in wireless operation. These metasurfaces are often called reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) due to active tuning elements…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Md. Abrar A Mushfik , Mohammad Ali Kaisar , Mohiminul Islam Bhuiyan Sahed , Idban Alamzadeh

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…

The concept of metasurface has recently opened new exciting directions to engineer the refraction properties in both optical and acoustic media. Metasurfaces are typically designed by assembling arrays of sub-wavelength anisotropic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-20 Hongfei Zhu , Fabio Semperlotti