Recent progress on ultrathin metalenses for flat optics

SW Moon, Y Kim, G Yoon, J Rho - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
As technology advances, electrical devices such as smartphones have become more and
more compact, leading to a demand for the continuous miniaturization of optical …

Engineering metalenses for planar optics and acoustics

B Oh, K Kim, D Lee, J Rho - Materials Today Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Metalens, a two-dimensional planar system composed of strategically engineered
subwavelength structures, facilitates precise manipulation in the process of both light and …

Scalable Nanoimprint Lithography Process for Manufacturing Visible Metasurfaces Composed of High Aspect Ratio TiO2 Meta-Atoms

VJ Einck, M Torfeh, A McClung, DE Jung… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report a one-step additive manufacturing process to fabricate metalenses for visible
wavelengths. Nanostructures with aspect ratios larger than eight and critical dimensions …

Large-scale parametrized metasurface design using adjoint optimization

M Mansouree, A McClung, S Samudrala… - Acs Photonics, 2021 - ACS Publications
Optical metasurfaces are planar arrangements of subwavelength meta-atoms that
implement a wide range of transformations on incident light. The design of efficient …

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 …

Varifocal zoom imaging with large area focal length adjustable metalenses

S Colburn, A Zhan, A Majumdar - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Varifocal lenses are essential components of dynamic optical systems with applications in
photography, mixed reality, and microscopy. Metasurface optics has strong potential for …

Deep learning to accelerate scatterer-to-field map** for inverse design of dielectric metasurfaces

MV Zhelyeznyakov, S Brunton, A Majumdar - ACS Photonics, 2021 - ACS Publications
The inverse design of optical metasurfaces is a rapidly emerging field that has already
shown great promise in miniaturizing conventional optics as well as develo** completely …

Large area optimization of meta-lens via data-free machine learning

M Zhelyeznyakov, J Fröch, A Wirth-Singh… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Sub-wavelength diffractive optics, commonly known as meta-optics, present a complex
numerical simulation challenge, due to their multi-scale nature. The behavior of constituent …

Fundamental limits to the refractive index of transparent optical materials

H Shim, F Monticone, OD Miller - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing the refractive index available for optical and nanophotonic systems opens new
vistas for design, for applications ranging from broadband metalenses to ultrathin …

Planar metasurface-based concentrators for solar energy harvest: from theory to engineering

C Zhang, Y Zhan, Y Qiu, L Xu, J Guan - PhotoniX, 2022 - Springer
Solar energy is an inexhaustible renewable energy resource, which is a potential solution to
global warming and aids sustainable development. The use of solar-thermal collectors to …