Tunable nanophotonics enabled by chalcogenide phase-change materials

S Abdollahramezani, O Hemmatyar, H Taghinejad… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Nanophotonics has garnered intensive attention due to its unique capabilities in molding the
flow of light in the subwavelength regime. Metasurfaces (MSs) and photonic integrated …

Recent advances in the spin Hall effect of light

X Ling, X Zhou, K Huang, Y Liu, CW Qiu… - Reports on Progress …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The spin Hall effect (SHE) of light, as an analogue of the SHE in electronic systems, is a
promising candidate for investigating the SHE in semiconductor spintronics/valleytronics …

Independent phase modulation for quadruplex polarization channels enabled by chirality-assisted geometric-phase metasurfaces

Y Yuan, K Zhang, B Ratni, Q Song, X Ding… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Geometric-phase metasurfaces, recently utilized for controlling wavefronts of circular
polarized (CP) electromagnetic waves, are drastically limited to the cross-polarization …

Nonlocal metasurfaces for optical signal processing

H Kwon, D Sounas, A Cordaro, A Polman, A Alù - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Optical analog signal processing has been gaining significant attention as a way to
overcome the speed and energy limitations of digital techniques. Metasurfaces offer a …

Metagratings: Beyond the limits of graded metasurfaces for wave front control

Y Ra'di, DL Sounas, A Alù - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Graded metasurfaces exploit the local momentum imparted by an impedance gradient to
mold the impinging wave front. This approach suffers from fundamental limits on the overall …

High-efficiency all-dielectric metasurfaces for ultracompact beam manipulation in transmission mode

MI Shalaev, J Sun, A Tsukernik, A Pandey… - Nano …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Metasurfaces are two-dimensional structures enabling complete control on light amplitude,
phase, and polarization. Unlike plasmonic metasurfaces, silicon structures facilitate high …

Advances in optical metasurfaces: fabrication and applications

VC Su, CH Chu, G Sun, DP Tsai - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The research and development of optical metasurfaces has been primarily driven by the
curiosity for novel optical phenomena that are unattainable from materials that exist in nature …

Principles of electromagnetic waves in metasurfaces

XG Luo - Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2015 - Springer
Metasurfaces are artificially structured thin films with unusual properties on demand.
Different from metamaterials, the metasurfaces change the electromagnetic waves mainly by …

Experimental demonstration of> 230 phase modulation in gate-tunable graphene–gold reconfigurable mid-infrared metasurfaces

MC Sherrott, PWC Hon, KT Fountaine, JC Garcia… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Metasurfaces offer significant potential to control far-field light propagation through the
engineering of the amplitude, polarization, and phase at an interface. We report here the …

Light‐powered microrobots: challenges and opportunities for hard and soft responsive microswimmers

AI Bunea, D Martella, S Nocentini… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Worldwide research in microrobotics has exploded in the past two decades, leading to the
development of microrobots propelled in various manners. Despite significant advances in …