Roadmap for optical metasurfaces

AI Kuznetsov, ML Brongersma, J Yao, MK Chen… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Metasurfaces have recently risen to prominence in optical research, providing unique
functionalities that can be used for imaging, beam forming, holography, polarimetry, and …

Resonant leaky modes in all-dielectric metasystems: Fundamentals and applications

L Huang, L Xu, DA Powell, WJ Padilla… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
All-dielectric metamaterials and metasurfaces have been demonstrated as ideal platforms to
manipulate electromagnetic waves and enhance light–matter interaction. Analogous to …

Materials in radiative cooling technologies

R Liu, S Wang, Z Zhou, K Zhang, G Wang… - Advanced …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Radiative cooling (RC) is a carbon‐neutral cooling technology that utilizes thermal radiation
to dissipate heat from the Earth's surface to the cold outer space. Research in the field of RC …

Integrated optical memristors

N Youngblood, CA Ríos Ocampo, WHP Pernice… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Memristors in electronics have shown the potential for a range of applications, ranging from
circuit elements to neuromorphic computing. In recent years, the ability to vary the …

Electrically reconfigurable non-volatile metasurface using low-loss optical phase-change material

Y Zhang, C Fowler, J Liang, B Azhar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Active metasurfaces promise reconfigurable optics with drastically improved compactness,
ruggedness, manufacturability and functionality compared to their traditional bulk …

Photonic bound states in the continuum: from basics to applications

SI Azzam, AV Kildishev - Advanced Optical Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The introduction of bound states in the continuum (BICs) to photonics has revolutionized the
way cavity design and light–matter interactions are thought about in general. BICs can have …

Non-volatile electrically programmable integrated photonics with a 5-bit operation

R Chen, Z Fang, C Perez, F Miller, K Kumari… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Scalable programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can potentially transform the
current state of classical and quantum optical information processing. However, traditional …

Electrically driven reprogrammable phase-change metasurface reaching 80% efficiency

S Abdollahramezani, O Hemmatyar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Phase-change materials (PCMs) offer a compelling platform for active metaoptics, owing to
their large index contrast and fast yet stable phase transition attributes. Despite recent …

Ultra-compact nonvolatile phase shifter based on electrically reprogrammable transparent phase change materials

C Ríos, Q Du, Y Zhang, CC Popescu, MY Shalaginov… - PhotoniX, 2022 - Springer
Optical phase shifters constitute the fundamental building blocks that enable programmable
photonic integrated circuits (PICs)—the cornerstone of on-chip classical and quantum …

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 …