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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…

Metamaterials with the transformation method has greatly promoted the development in achieving invisibility and illusion for various classical waves. However, the requirement of tailor-made bulk materials and extreme constitutive parameters…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Yongquan Liu , Zixian Liang , Fu Liu , Owen Diba , Alistair Lamb , Jensen Li

Temporal metamaterials, based on time-varying constitutive properties, offer new exciting possibilities for advanced field manipulations. In this study, we explore the capabilities of anisotropic temporal slabs, which rely on abrupt changes…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-23 Carlo Rizza , Giuseppe Castaldi , Vincenzo Galdi

We present a novel shape-approximating anisotropic re-meshing algorithm as a geometric generalization of the adaptive moving mesh method. Conventional moving mesh methods reduce the interpolation error of a mesh that discretizes a given…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Nicolas Nebel , Albert Chern

Manipulation of radiation is required for enabling a span of electromagnetic applications. Since properties of antennas and scatterers are very sensitive to a surrounding environment, macroscopic artificially created materials are good…

This paper presents a technique, combining the integral equations (IE) and the Generalized Sheet Transition Conditions (GSTCs) with bianisotropic susceptibility tensors, to compute electromagnetic wave scattering by cylindrical metasurfaces…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Mojtaba Dehmollaian , Nima Chamanara , Christophe Caloz

Transmission of a normally incident plane wave through a metasurface with bicontrollable subwavelength scattering elements was simulated using a commercial software. Some pixels comprising the $H-shaped scattering elements were made of a…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Francesco Chiadini , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

The future fibre optic communications network will rely on photons as carriers of information, which may be stored in intensity, polarization or phase of light. However, processing of such optical information usually relies on electronics.…

Recent advances in nonlocal metasurfaces have enabled unprecedented success in shaping the wavefront of light with spectral selectivity, offering new solutions for many emerging nanophotonics applications. The ability to tune both the…

Electromagnetic wave behaviour in an anisotropic medium with a two dimensional arbitrary geometry is studied. The aim is to trace the path of a ray in such a complex medium for the purpose of achieving cloaking (invisibility). A coordinate…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-30 H. H. Sidhwa , R. P. Aiyar , S. V. Kulkarni

Transformation media provide a fundamental paradigm for field regulation, but their tricky anisotropy challenges fabrication. Though optical conformal mapping has been utilized to eliminate anisotropy, two key factors still hinder its…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Gaole Dai , Fubao Yang , Jun Wang , Liujun Xu , Jiping Huang

Rapid developments in the emerging field of stretchable and conformable photonics necessitate analytical expressions for boundary conditions at metasurfaces of arbitrary geometries. Here, we introduce the concept of conformal boundary…

Propagation of the surface waves on the interface between an uniaxial hyperbolic material and an isotopical topological insulator is studied. The cases of the anisotropy axes is normal to interface or one is coplanar to interface are…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-20 Ekaterina Lyashko , Andrei Maimistov , Ildar Gabitov

In this work, we demonstrate that the interaction of electromagnetic waves with a microstructured material formed by metallic wires connected to a metallic surface can be described using homogenization methods provided an additional…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Mario G. Silveirinha , Carlos A. Fernandes , Jorge R. Costa

We demonstrate that metamaterial devices requiring anisotropic dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability may be emulated by specially designed tapered waveguides. This approach leads to low-loss, broadband performance. Based on this…

Hyperbolic metamaterials enable extreme light confinement and control of photonic states, but their realization has been restricted to inorganic architectures. Here, a fully organic route to fabricate artificial hyperbolic metamaterials…

We derive an analytical expression for the scattering of a scalar wave from a perfectly conducting self-affine one dimensional surface in the framework of the Kirchhoff approximation. We show that most of the results can be recovered via a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ingve Simonsen , Damien Vandembroucq , Stephane Roux

The aim of this letter is to {present analytical method to} quantitatively address the influence of a focusing illumination on the transmission /reflection properties of a {metasurface illuminated by a finite-size beam}. In fact, most…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-24 Mohamed Boutria , Abdoulaye Ndao , Fadi I. Baida

We present a method for efficient spin wave guiding within the magnonic nanostructures. Our technique is based on the anomalous refraction in the metamaterial flat slab. The gradual change of the material parameters (saturation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 S Mieszczak , O. Busel , P. Gruszecki , A. N. Kuchko , J. W. Kłos , M. Krawczyk

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…