Intelligent metasurfaces: control, communication and computing

L Li, H Zhao, C Liu, L Li, TJ Cui - Elight, 2022 - Springer
Controlling electromagnetic waves and information simultaneously by information
metasurfaces is of central importance in modern society. Intelligent metasurfaces are smart …

[HTML][HTML] Optical meta-waveguides for integrated photonics and beyond

Y Meng, Y Chen, L Lu, Y Ding, A Cusano… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
The growing maturity of nanofabrication has ushered massive sophisticated optical
structures available on a photonic chip. The integration of subwavelength-structured …

Space-efficient optical computing with an integrated chip diffractive neural network

HH Zhu, J Zou, H Zhang, YZ Shi, SB Luo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Large-scale, highly integrated and low-power-consuming hardware is becoming
progressively more important for realizing optical neural networks (ONNs) capable of …

The rise of intelligent matter

C Kaspar, BJ Ravoo, WG van der Wiel, SV Wegner… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating the development of unconventional computing
paradigms inspired by the abilities and energy efficiency of the brain. The human brain …

Hydrogel muscles powering reconfigurable micro-metastructures with wide-spectrum programmability

M Zhang, A Pal, Z Zheng, G Gardi, E Yildiz, M Sitti - Nature materials, 2023 - nature.com
Stimuli-responsive geometric transformations endow metamaterials with dynamic properties
and functionalities. However, using existing transformation mechanisms to program a single …

Mechanical computing

H Yasuda, PR Buskohl, A Gillman, TD Murphey… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Mechanical mechanisms have been used to process information for millennia, with famous
examples ranging from the Antikythera mechanism of the Ancient Greeks to the analytical …

Large-scale neuromorphic optoelectronic computing with a reconfigurable diffractive processing unit

T Zhou, X Lin, J Wu, Y Chen, H Xie, Y Li, J Fan, H Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
There is an ever-growing demand for artificial intelligence. Optical processors, which
compute with photons instead of electrons, can fundamentally accelerate the development …

Highlighting photonics: looking into the next decade

Z Chen, M Segev - ELight, 2021 - Springer
Let there be light–to change the world we want to be! Over the past several decades, and
ever since the birth of the first laser, mankind has witnessed the development of the science …

Analogue computing with metamaterials

F Zangeneh-Nejad, DL Sounas, A Alù… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite their widespread use for performing advanced computational tasks, digital signal
processors suffer from several restrictions, including low speed, high power consumption …

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 …