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Waves impart momentum and exert force on obstacles in their path. The transfer of wave momentum is a fundamental mechanism for contactless manipulation, yet the rules of conventional scattering intrinsically limit the radiation force based…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-03 Matthew Stein , Sam Keller , Yujie Luo , Ognjen Ilic

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

We propose and verify a method for controlling the frequency dependence of the group delay of electromagnetic waves over a broad frequency range using the Brewster effect in single-layer metamaterials with finite thickness, here referred to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Yasuhiro Tamayama , Hiromu Yamamoto

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 non-linear and tunable optical constants of phase-change materials associated with their phase-switching have been utilized in reconfigurable optical devices. For example, one possible application of phase-change thin films is for…

We study theoretically and experimentally how to reduce the backscattering of water waves in a channel with multiple turns. We show that it is not only possible to cancel backscattering but also to achieve a remarkable transmission in such…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Samantha Kucher , Adrian Koźluk , Philippe Petitjeans , Agnès Maurel , Vincent Pagneux

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…

Getting to grips with the detrimental influence of disordered environments on wave propagation is an interdisciplinary endeavour spanning diverse research areas ranging from telecommunications \cite{basar_wireless_2019} and bio-medical…

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

On the quest towards full control over wave propagation, the development of compact devices that allow asymmetric response is a challenge. In this Letter, we introduce a new paradigm for the engineering of asymmetry in planar structures,…

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

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

In this paper we introduce the concept of metasurfaces which are fully transparent when looking from one of the two sides of the sheet and have controllable functionalities for waves hitting the opposite side (one-way transparent sheets).…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-16 Younes Ra'di , Viktar Asadchy , Sergei Tretyakov

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

For passive, lossless impenetrable metasurfaces, a design technique for arbitrary beam control of receiving, guiding, and launching is presented. Arbitrary control is enabled by a custom surface wave in an orthogonal polarization such that…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-01 Do-Hoon Kwon , Sergei A. Tretyakov

Active development is taking place in reconfigurable and static metasurfaces that control and optimize reflections. However, existing designs typically only optimize reflections from the metasurface panels, neglecting interference with…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 S. Kosulnikov , F. S. Cuesta , X. Wang , S. A. Tretyakov

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

We present a new method for the control of waves based on inverse multiple scattering theory. Conceived as a generalization of the concept of metagrating, we call metaclusters to a finite set of scatterers whose position and properties are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Pawel Packo , Andrew Norris , Dani Torrent

Recently, guiding electromagnetic surface waves without sacrificing scattering losses through paths that have arbitrary shape bumps has gained a lot of interest due to its wealth of advantages in modern photonics and plasmonics devices. In…

The scattering of waves is a ubiquitous phenomenon in physics, yet there are numerous scenarios, such as the pursuit of invisibility, where suppressing it is of utmost importance. In comparison to prior methods which are restricted by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Chenkai Liu , Chu Ma , Yun Lai , Nicholas X. Fang