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A review of metasurfaces: physics and applications Open
Metamaterials are composed of periodic subwavelength metal/dielectric structures that resonantly couple to the electric and/or magnetic components of the incident electromagnetic fields, exhibiting properties that are not found in nature. …
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A Review on Metasurface: From Principle to Smart Metadevices Open
Metamaterials are composed of periodic subwavelength metallic/dielectric structures that resonantly couple to the electric and magnetic fields of the incident electromagnetic waves, exhibiting unprecedented properties which are most typica…
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Giant intrinsic chiro-optical activity in planar dielectric nanostructures Open
The strong optical chirality arising from certain synthetic metamaterials has important and widespread applications in polarization optics, stereochemistry and spintronics. However, these intrinsically chiral metamaterials are restricted t…
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Wide Bandgap Phase Change Material Tuned Visible Photonics Open
Light strongly interacts with structures that are of a similar scale to its wavelength, typically nanoscale features for light in the visible spectrum. However, the optical response of these nanostructures is usually fixed during the fabri…
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Metal–organic frameworks as competitive materials for non-linear optics Open
The development of metal–organic frameworks may transform into a very promising area, namely, obtaining quantum and nonlinear metamaterials using chemical methods.
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Topological Photonic Crystals: Physics, Designs, and Applications Open
Recent research in topological photonics has not only proposed and realized novel topological phenomena such as one‐way broadband propagation and robust transport of light, but also designed and fabricated photonic devices with high‐perfor…
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Hybrid metamaterials for electrically triggered multifunctional control Open
Despite the exotic material properties that have been demonstrated to date, practical examples of versatile metamaterials remain exceedingly rare. The concept of metadevices has been proposed in the context of hybrid metamaterial composite…
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All-dielectric meta-optics and non-linear nanophotonics Open
Most optical metamaterials fabricated and studied to date employ metallic components resulting in significant losses, heat and overall low efficiencies. A new era of metamaterial physics is associated with all-dielectric meta-optics, which…
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Metamaterials and Metasurfaces for Sensor Applications Open
Electromagnetic metamaterials (MMs) and metasurfaces (MSs) are artificial media and surfaces with subwavelength separations of meta-atoms designed for anomalous manipulations of light properties. Owing to large scattering cross-sections of…
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Broadband frequency translation through time refraction in an epsilon-near-zero material Open
Space-time duality in paraxial optical wave propagation implies the existence of intriguing effects when light interacts with a material exhibiting two refractive indexes separated by a boundary in time. The direct consequence of such time…
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New Twists of 3D Chiral Metamaterials Open
Rationally designed artificial materials, called metamaterials, allow for tailoring effective material properties beyond (“meta”) the properties of their bulk ingredient materials. This statement is especially true for chiral metamaterials…
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Additive Manufacturing: Applications and Directions in Photonics and Optoelectronics Open
The combination of materials with targeted optical properties and of complex, 3D architectures, which can be nowadays obtained by additive manufacturing, opens unprecedented opportunities for developing new integrated systems in photonics …
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Highly tunable refractive index visible-light metasurface from block copolymer self-assembly Open
The refractive index of natural transparent materials is limited to 2–3 throughout the visible wavelength range. Wider controllability of the refractive index is desired for novel optical applications such as nanoimaging and integrated pho…
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Phonon-polaritonics: enabling powerful capabilities for infrared photonics Open
Here, we review the progress and most recent advances in phonon-polaritonics, an emerging and growing field that has brought about a range of powerful possibilities for mid- to far-infrared (IR) light. These extraordinary capabilities are …
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Optical manipulation with metamaterial structures Open
Optical tweezers employing forces produced by light underpin important manipulation tools employed in numerous areas of applied and biological physics. Conventional optical tweezers are widely based on refractive optics, and they require e…
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Metamaterials and Metasurfaces: A Review from the Perspectives of Materials, Mechanisms and Advanced Metadevices Open
Throughout human history, the control of light, electricity and heat has evolved to become the cornerstone of various innovations and developments in electrical and electromagnetic technologies. Wireless communications, laser and computer …
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Photonic spin Hall effect in metasurfaces: a brief review Open
The photonic spin Hall effect (SHE) originates from the interplay between the photon-spin (polarization) and the trajectory (extrinsic orbital angular momentum) of light, i.e. the spin-orbit interaction. Metasurfaces, metamaterials with a …
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Zero-Index Bound States in the Continuum Open
Metamaterials with an effective zero refractive index associated with their electromagnetic response are sought for a number of applications in communications and nonlinear optics. A promising way that this can be achieved in all-dielectri…
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A review of silicon subwavelength gratings: building break-through devices with anisotropic metamaterials Open
Silicon photonics is playing a key role in areas as diverse as high-speed optical communications, neural networks, supercomputing, quantum photonics, and sensing, which demand the development of highly efficient and compact light-processin…
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Photonic spin Hall effect in hyperbolic metamaterials at visible wavelengths Open
The photonic spin Hall effect in transmission is a transverse beam shift of the out-coming beam depending on polarization of the incoming beam. The effect can be significantly enhanced by materials with high anisotropy. We report, to the b…
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Moiré Chiral Metamaterials Open
Plasmonic chiral metamaterials are promising for applications in chiral sensors and photonic devices due to their strong optical chirality and light–matter interactions at the subwavelength scale. However, most of current plasmonic chiral …
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Optics with hyperbolic materials [Invited] Open
A hyperbolic material (HM) is an optical material that exhibits a unique property of having anisotropy with simultaneously different signs of the permittivity tensor components. Such a property leads to novel optical phenomena. HM can host…
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The diversity of three-dimensional photonic crystals Open
Many butterflies, birds, beetles, and chameleons owe their spectacular colors to the microscopic patterns within their wings, feathers, or skin. When these patterns, or photonic crystals, result in the omnidirectional reflection of commens…
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Recent Advances in Block Copolymer Self‐Assembly for the Fabrication of Photonic Films and Pigments Open
The self‐assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) into photonic materials has drawn significant attention due to the flexibility and diversity of the building blocks that can be synthesized. This review provides a brief overview of the developm…
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Dual tunable plasmon-induced transparency based on silicon–air grating coupled graphene structure in terahertz metamaterial Open
A graphene plasmonic structure consists of three graphene layers mingled with a silicon-air grating is proposed. We theoretically predict and numerically simulate the plasmon-induced transparency effect in this system at terahertz waveleng…
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Three Dimensional Photonic Dirac Points in Metamaterials Open
Topological semimetals, representing a new topological phase that lacks a full band gap in bulk states and exhibiting nontrivial topological orders, recently have been extended to photonic systems, predominantly in photonic crystals and to…
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Colloidal crystals with diamond symmetry at optical lengthscales Open
Future optical materials promise to do for photonics what semiconductors did for electronics, but the challenge has long been in creating the structure they require—a regular, three-dimensional array of transparent microspheres arranged li…
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Artificial Metaphotonics Born Naturally in Two Dimensions Open
Recently, two rich and exciting research fields, layered two-dimensional (2D) materials and metamaterials, have started overlapping. Metamaterials are artificial, engineered materials with broad metaphotonic prospects such as negative refr…
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Flatland plasmonics and nanophotonics based on graphene and beyond Open
In this paper, we review and discuss how the recently discovered two-dimensional (2D) Dirac materials, particularly graphene, may be utilized as new efficient platforms for excitations of propagating and localized surface plasmon polariton…
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Vanadium dioxide based broadband THz metamaterial absorbers with high tunability: simulation study Open
With their unprecedented flexibility in manipulating electromagnetic waves, metamaterials provide a pathway to structural materials that can fill the so-called "THz gap". It has been reported that vanadium dioxide (VO2) experiences a three…