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Metasurfaces represent a new paradigm in artificial subwavelength structures due to their potential to overcome many challenges typically associated with bulk metamaterials. The ability making very thin structures and change their…

Recently, moir\'e engineering has been extensively employed for creating and studying novel electronic materials in two dimensions. However, its application in nanophotonic systems has not been widely explored so far. Here, we demonstrate…

Metasurfaces are an emerging platform for manipulating light on a two-dimensional plane. Existing metasurfaces comprise arrays of optical resonators such as plasmonic antennas or high-index nanorods. In this letter, we describe a new…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-30 Ming Zhou , Jingfeng Liu , Mikhail Kats , Zongfu Yu

Metamaterials and plasmonics are powerful tools for unconventional manipulation and harnessing of light. Metamaterials can be engineered to possess intriguing properties lacking in natural materials, such as negative refractive index.…

Emerging technology based on artificial materials containing metallic structures has raised the prospect for unprecedented control of terahertz waves through components like filters, absorbers and polarizers. The functionality of these…

Metasurfaces are a family of novel wavefront shaping devices with planar profile and subwavelength thickness. Acoustic metasurfaces with ultralow profile yet extraordinary wave manipulating properties would be highly desirable for improving…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Yangbo Xie , Wenqi Wang , Huanyang Chen , Adam Konneker , Bogdan-Ioan Popa , Steven A. Cummer

The ability to manipulate the electric-field vector of broadband terahertz waves is essential for applications of terahertz technologies in many areas, and can open up new possibilities for nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy and coherent…

Metamaterials, artificially engineered materials consisting of subwavelength unit cell, have shown potentials in light manipulation with their extraordinary optical properties. Especially, topological metamaterials possessing topologically…

Metasurfaces, with intrinsically planar nature and subwavelength thickness, provide us unconventional methodologies to not only mold the flow of propagating waves but also manipulate near-field waves. Plasmonic metasurfaces with topological…

Photonic devices rarely provide both elaborate spatial control and sharp spectral control over an incoming wavefront. In optical metasurfaces, for example, the localized modes of individual meta-units govern the wavefront shape over a broad…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-27 Stephanie C. Malek , Adam C. Overvig , Andrea Alù , Nanfang Yu

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

Metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness have exhibited unconventional phenomena in ways that could not be mimicked by traditional materials. Here we report the analytical design and experimental realizations of acoustic metasurface with…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-30 Yong Li , Xue Jiang , Rui-qi Li , Bin Liang , Xin-ye Zou , Lei-lei Yin , Jian-chun Cheng

Recent discoveries on Mott insulating and unconventional superconducting states in twisted bilayer graphene with Moir\'e superlattices have reshaped the landscape of ''twistronics'' and paved the way for developing high-temperature…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Mourad Oudich , Xianghong Kong , Tan Zhang , Chengwei Qiu , Yun Jing

Dynamic control of metamaterials and metasurfaces is crucial for many photonic technologies, such as flat lenses, displays, augmented reality devices, and beam steering, to name a few. The dynamic response is typically achieved by…

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

Local strain engineering is an exciting approach to tune the optoelectronic properties of materials. Two dimensional (2D) materials such as 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are particularly well suited for this purpose because…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-11 Ahmed Raza Khan , Teng Lu , Wendi Ma , Yuerui Lu , Yun Liu

In this work, we introduce a concept to enable dynamic beamforming of terahertz (THz) wavefronts using applied magnetic fields (B). The proposed system exploits the magnetically switchable hyperbolic dispersion of the InSb semiconductor.…

Metasurfaces advanced the field of optics by reducing the thickness of optical components and merging multiple functionalities into a single layer device. However, this generally comes with a reduction in performance, especially for…

Recently, new artificial material has been proposed to control an electromagnetic wave-metasurface, a two-dimensional metamaterial. Compared with a three-dimensional bulky metamaterial, this artificial plane material with sub-wavelength…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-12 Chong Sheng , Hui Liu , Shining Zhu

The ability of phase-change materials to reversibly and rapidly switch between two stable phases has driven their use in a number of applications such as data storage and optical modulators. Incorporating such materials into metasurfaces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Nooshin M. Estakhri , Theodore B. Norris