Toward intelligent metasurfaces: the progress from globally tunable metasurfaces to software‐defined metasurfaces with an embedded network of controllers

O Tsilipakos, AC Tasolamprou… - Advanced optical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Metasurfaces, the ultrathin, 2D version of metamaterials, have recently attracted a surge of
attention for their capability to manipulate electromagnetic waves. Recent advances in …

Electromagnetic metasurfaces: physics and applications

S Sun, Q He, J Hao, S Xiao, L Zhou - Advances in Optics and …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Metasurfaces are ultrathin metamaterials consisting of planar electromagnetic (EM)
microstructures (eg, meta-atoms) with pre-determined EM responses arranged in specific …

Thermal tuning of terahertz metamaterial absorber properties based on VO 2

Z Zheng, Y Luo, H Yang, Z Yi, J Zhang… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a novel, structurally simple, multifunctional broadband absorber. It consists of a
patterned vanadium dioxide film and a metal plate spaced by a dielectric layer. Temperature …

A broadband achromatic metalens for focusing and imaging in the visible

WT Chen, AY Zhu, V Sanjeev… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A key goal of metalens research is to achieve wavefront shaping of light using optical
elements with thicknesses on the order of the wavelength. Such miniaturization is expected …

Independent amplitude control of arbitrary orthogonal states of polarization via dielectric metasurfaces

Q Fan, M Liu, C Zhang, W Zhu, Y Wang, P Lin, F Yan… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Exquisite polarization control using optical metasurfaces has attracted considerable
attention thanks to their ability to manipulate multichannel independent wavefronts with …

Terahertz absorption modulator with largely tunable bandwidth and intensity

W Liu, Z Song - Carbon, 2021 - Elsevier
A dual-tunable metamaterial absorption modulator is proposed based on a hybrid vanadium
dioxide-graphene configuration. When vanadium dioxide is in the state of metal, the design …

Gradient metasurfaces: a review of fundamentals and applications

F Ding, A Pors, SI Bozhevolnyi - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In the wake of intense research on metamaterials the two-dimensional analogue, known as
metasurfaces, has attracted progressively increasing attention in recent years due to the …

[HTML][HTML] Tunable/reconfigurable metasurfaces: physics and applications

Q He, S Sun, L Zhou - Research, 2019 - spj.science.org
Metasurfaces, ultrathin metamaterials constructed by planar meta-atoms with tailored
electromagnetic (EM) responses, have attracted tremendous attention due to their exotic …

High‐efficiency metasurfaces: principles, realizations, and applications

Q He, S Sun, S Xiao, L Zhou - Advanced Optical Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Metasurfaces are planar metamaterials exhibiting certain inhomogeneous phase
distributions for transmitted or reflected waves, which can efficiently reshape the wave‐fronts …

Efficient meta-couplers squeezing propagating light into on-chip subwavelength devices in a controllable way

Y Chen, X Zheng, X Zhang, W Pan, Z Wang, S Li… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
On-chip photonic systems play crucial roles in nanoscience and nanoapplications, but
coupling external light to these subwavelength devices is challenging due to a large mode …