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 …

Tunable metasurfaces based on active materials

T Cui, B Bai, HB Sun - Advanced Functional Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Metasurfaces, planer artificial materials composed of subwavelength unit cells, have shown
superior abilities to manipulate the wavefronts of electromagnetic waves. In the last few …

Epsilon‐near‐zero photonics: a new platform for integrated devices

X Niu, X Hu, S Chu, Q Gong - Advanced Optical Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Epsilon‐near‐zero (ENZ) photonics is the study of light–matter interactions in the
presence of structures with near‐zero permittivity and has been emerging as an important …

Femtosecond optical polarization switching using a cadmium oxide-based perfect absorber

Y Yang, K Kelley, E Sachet, S Campione, TS Luk… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Ultrafast control of the polarization state of light may enable a plethora of applications in
optics, chemistry and biology. However, conventional polarizing elements, such as …

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 …

Semiconductor infrared plasmonics

T Taliercio, P Biagioni - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
The coupling between light and collective oscillations of free carriers at metallic surfaces
and nanostructures is at the origin of one of the main fields of nanophotonics: plasmonics …

Recent progress in terahertz modulation using photonic structures based on two‐dimensional materials

Z Wang, J Qiao, S Zhao, S Wang, C He, X Tao… - InfoMat, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Terahertz (THz) technology has attracted great attention in the past few decades for its
unique applications in various fields, including spectroscopy, noninvasive detection …

Tunable optical metasurfaces enabled by multiple modulation mechanisms

Y Che, X Wang, Q Song, Y Zhu, S Xiao - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
With their ultrathin characteristics as well as the powerful and flexible capabilities of
wavefront modulation, optical metasurfaces have brought a new understanding of the …

Short-pulsed metamaterials

C Rizza, G Castaldi, V Galdi - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We study a class of temporal metamaterials characterized by time-varying dielectric
permittivity waveforms of duration much smaller than the characteristic wave-dynamical …

BST-silicon hybrid terahertz meta-modulator for dual-stimuli-triggered opposite transmission amplitude control

B Dong, C Zhang, G Guo, X Zhang, Y Wang… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
With the drafting of the 6G white paper, terahertz (THz) modulators reshow profound
significance in wireless communication, data storage, and imaging. Active tuning of THz …