Recent advances in tunable metasurfaces: materials, design, and applications

OAM Abdelraouf, Z Wang, H Liu, Z Dong, Q Wang… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metasurfaces, a two-dimensional (2D) form of metamaterials constituted by planar meta-
atoms, exhibit exotic abilities to tailor electromagnetic (EM) waves freely. Over the past …

Terahertz beam steering technologies: from phased arrays to field‐programmable metasurfaces

X Fu, F Yang, C Liu, X Wu, TJ Cui - Advanced optical materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In past decades, terahertz radiation, which locates between microwave and far‐infrared light
in the electromagnetic spectrum, has attracted more and more attention. Various passive …

Directional terahertz holography with thermally active Janus metasurface

B Chen, S Yang, J Chen, J Wu, K Chen, W Li… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Dynamic manipulation of electromagnetic (EM) waves with multiple degrees of freedom
plays an essential role in enhancing information processing. Currently, an enormous …

Recent progress in vanadium dioxide: The multi-stimuli responsive material and its applications

S Bhupathi, S Wang, Y Ke, Y Long - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2023 - Elsevier
The reversible phase transition in vanadium dioxide (VO 2) with light, heat, electric,
magnetic, and mechanical stimuli is the enabling concept to function as a smart material. It is …

Chalcogenide phase change material for active terahertz photonics

P Pitchappa, A Kumar, S Prakash, H Jani… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The strikingly contrasting optical properties of various phases of chalcogenide phase
change materials (PCM) has recently led to the development of novel photonic devices such …

Space and time modulations of light with metasurfaces: recent progress and future prospects

E Mikheeva, C Kyrou, F Bentata, S Khadir, S Cueff… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this Perspective, we discuss the different opportunities offered by time-modulated
metasurfaces for dynamic wavefront engineering and space-time photonics. Efforts in …

All-optical signal processing of vortex beams with diffractive deep neural networks

Z Huang, P Wang, J Liu, W Xiong, Y He, J Xiao, H Ye… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Vortex beams (VBs), possessing a helical phase front and carrying orbital angular
momentum (OAM), have attracted considerable attention in optical communications for their …

Temperature‐controlled optical activity and negative refractive index

M Liu, E Plum, H Li, S Li, Q Xu, X Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Chiral media exhibit optical activity, which manifests itself as differential retardation and
attenuation of circularly polarized electromagnetic waves of opposite handedness. This …

A review of THz modulators with dynamic tunable metasurfaces

L Wang, Y Zhang, X Guo, T Chen, H Liang, X Hao… - Nanomaterials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Terahertz (THz) radiation has received much attention during the past few decades for its
potential applications in various fields, such as spectroscopy, imaging, and wireless …

Recent advances in reconfigurable metasurfaces: principle and applications

Z Zhang, H Shi, L Wang, J Chen, X Chen, J Yi, A Zhang… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Metasurfaces have shown their great capability to manipulate electromagnetic waves. As a
new concept, reconfigurable metasurfaces attract researchers' attention. There are many …