Active optical metasurfaces: comprehensive review on physics, mechanisms, and prospective applications

J Yang, S Gurung, S Bej, P Ni… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness hold considerable promise for future
advances in fundamental optics and novel optical applications due to their unprecedented …

Metalenses: Versatile multifunctional photonic components

M Khorasaninejad, F Capasso - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND Future high-performance portable and wearable optical devices and
systems with small footprints and low weights will require components with small form …

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 …

Inverse design of large-area metasurfaces

R Pestourie, C Pérez-Arancibia, Z Lin, W Shin… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We present a computational framework for efficient optimization-based “inverse design” of
large-area “metasurfaces”(subwavelength-patterned surfaces) for applications such as multi …

Electrically actuated varifocal lens based on liquid-crystal-embedded dielectric metasurfaces

M Bosch, MR Shcherbakov, K Won, HS Lee, Y Kim… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Compact varifocal lenses are essential to various imaging and vision technologies.
However, existing varifocal elements typically rely on mechanically actuated systems with …

Investigating the use of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles on the amount of protection against UV irradiation

R Ghamarpoor, A Fallah, M Jamshidi - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In this study, three samples of commercial titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2) in different
sizes were used to investigate their effect on the formulation of sunscreen creams. The aim …

Revisiting optical material platforms for efficient linear and nonlinear dielectric metasurfaces in the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared

Y Yang, H Kang, C Jung, J Seong, N Jeon, J Kim… - Acs …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The high refractive indexes and low optical losses of dielectrics are preferred for designing
highly efficient metasurfaces with unprecedented wavefront control such as near-unity …

Ultra-thin light-weight laser-induced-graphene (LIG) diffractive optics

Y Lee, MJ Low, D Yang, HK Nam, TSD Le… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
The realization of hybrid optics could be one of the best ways to fulfill the technological
requirements of compact, light-weight, and multi-functional optical systems for modern …

Metal-insulator-metal-based plasmonic metamaterial absorbers at visible and infrared wavelengths: a review

S Ogawa, M Kimata - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Electromagnetic wave absorbers have been investigated for many years with the aim of
achieving high absorbance and tunability of both the absorption wavelength and the …

Topology optimization of freeform large-area metasurfaces

Z Lin, V Liu, R Pestourie, SG Johnson - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate optimization of optical metasurfaces over 10^ 5–10^ 6 degrees of freedom
in two and three dimensions, 100–1000+ wavelengths (λ) in diameter, with 100+ parameters …