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A purely transmissive Huygens' metasurface model under plane-wave illumination is used to derive circuit parameters describing a constituent unit cell, such that diverse refraction angles are attained at two distinct frequency bands.…
Huygens' metasurfaces are electrically thin devices which allow arbitrary field transformations. Beam refraction is among the first demonstrations of realized metasurfaces. As previously shown for extreme-angle refraction, control over only…
We report the design, fabrication, and characterization of bianisotropic Huygens' metasurfaces (BHMSs) for refraction of normally incident beams towards 71.8 degrees. As previously shown, all three BHMS degrees of freedom, namely, electric…
Over the past decades, many radome designs to extend the angular scan range of phased-array antennas have been devised by utilizing dielectric materials and metamaterials. More recently, metasurface technology such as planar lenses and beam…
Metasurfaces are an enabling technology for complex wave manipulation functions, including in the terahertz frequency range, where they are expected to advance security, imaging, sensing, and communications technology. For operation in…
Metasurfaces composed of subwavelength unit cells usually require a large number of unit cells which leads to complicated design and optimization. Aggressive discretization in a metasurface can significantly reduce the number of unit cells…
We optimize optical performance of metasurfaces based on periodically corrugated silicon layers by adjusting the Fourier coefficients of their surface profile. For smooth corrugations, we demonstrate an excellent quantitative accuracy of…
Huygens' metasurfaces - fundamentally based on Schelkunoff's equivalence principle, Huygens' metasurfaces consist of a two-dimensional array of Huygens' sources formed by co-located orthogonal electric and magnetic dipoles. Such…
A thorough theoretical study of the optical properties of periodic Si nanosphere arrays is undertaken, placing particular emphasis on the synergy between electric and magnetic Mie resonances, which occur in high-refractive-index…
An electronically reconfigurable dual-band-reflectarray antenna is presented in this paper. The tunable unit cell, a ring loaded square patch with a single varactor diode connected across the gap between the ring and the patch, is modeled…
Recently, a special class of Huygens' surfaces has been proposed which are capable of manipulation of transmitted wavefronts while exhibiting high transparency over a broad range of frequencies. In this work we propose and study a new…
The goal of this effort is to establish the conditions and limits under which the Huygens-Fresnel principle accurately describes diffraction in the Monte Carlo ray-trace environment. This goal is achieved by systematic intercomparison of…
One of the most promising metasurface architectures for the microwave and terahertz frequency ranges consists of three patterned metallic layers separated by dielectrics. Such metasurfaces are well suited to planar fabrication techniques…
Recent metasurface developments have led to their consideration for extending the angular scan range of phased arrays. This paper considers the use of Huygens' metasurfaces as lenses to accomplish the task. Ray optics is used to uncover how…
Digital holographic microscopy is a thriving imaging modality that attracted considerable research interest in quantitative biological cell imaging due to its ability to not only create excellent label-free contrast, but also supply…
Scattering of refracting Huygens' metasurfaces is revisited. A new analytical closed-form solution is obtained for the two-dimensional problem under transverse electric (TE) plane-wave incidence -- a solution which gives the scattering for…
A novel Huygens' transmit-array is proposed based on a coupled-resonator approach where two identical elliptical metallic patches with an elliptical hole separated by a dielectric substrate has been used to demonstrate millimeter-wave…
Optical metasurfaces have developed as a breakthrough concept for advanced wave-front engineering enabled by subwavelength resonant nanostructures. However, reflection and/or absorption losses as well as low polarisation-conversion…
A novel metasurface unit cell architecture is proposed to enable independent control of the reflection magnitude and phase at a desired operation frequency, while maintaining linear polarization of the incoming fields. The proposed…
This paper investigates the discretization of a periodic metasurface and demonstrates how such a surface can achieve perfect anomalous reflection. Whilst most contemporary theoretical works on metasurfaces deal with continuous current or…