Active optical metasurfaces: comprehensive review on physics, mechanisms, and prospective applications

J Yang, S Gurung, S Bej, P Ni… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness hold considerable promise for future
advances in fundamental optics and novel optical applications due to their unprecedented …

Phase-change materials for non-volatile photonic applications

M Wuttig, H Bhaskaran, T Taubner - Nature photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Phase-change materials (PCMs) provide a unique combination of properties. On
transformation from the amorphous to crystalline state, their optical properties change …

Vectorial metasurface holography

Q Song, X Liu, CW Qiu, P Genevet - Applied Physics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Tailoring light properties using metasurfaces made of optically thin and subwavelength
structure arrays has led to a variety of innovative optical components with intriguing …

Hybrid graphene metasurfaces for high-speed mid-infrared light modulation and single-pixel imaging

B Zeng, Z Huang, A Singh, Y Yao, AK Azad… - Light: Science & …, 2018 - nature.com
During the past decades, major advances have been made in both the generation and
detection of infrared light; however, its efficient wavefront manipulation and information …

Alternative plasmonic materials: beyond gold and silver

GV Naik, VM Shalaev, A Boltasseva - Advanced materials, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Materials research plays a vital role in transforming breakthrough scientific ideas into next‐
generation technology. Similar to the way silicon revolutionized the microelectronics …

Using low-loss phase-change materials for mid-infrared antenna resonance tuning

AKU Michel, DN Chigrin, TWW Maß, K Schönauer… - Nano …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We show tuning of the resonance frequency of aluminum nanoantennas via variation of the
refractive index n of a layer of phase-change material. Three configurations have been …

Electrical switching of infrared light using graphene integration with plasmonic Fano resonant metasurfaces

N Dabidian, I Kholmanov, AB Khanikaev, K Tatar… - Acs …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Graphene has emerged as a promising optoelectronic material because its optical
properties can be rapidly and dramatically changed using electric gating. Graphene's weak …

Toward a universal metasurface for optical imaging, communication, and computation

P Thureja, R Sokhoyan, CU Hail, J Sisler, M Foley… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
In recent years, active metasurfaces have emerged as a reconfigurable nanophotonic
platform for the manipulation of light. Here, application of an external stimulus to resonant …

Optical metasurfaces: evolving from passive to adaptive

CU Hail, AKU Michel, D Poulikakos… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Optical metasurfaces are nanoengineered architectures aiming at the functional control of
light propagation. In recent years, the performance of metasurfaces has been significantly …

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 …