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Quo Vadis, Metasurfaces?

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Qiu, Cheng-Wei, Zhang, Tan, Hu, Guangwei, Kivshar, Yuri·2021·Nano Letters

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The full manipulation of intrinsic properties of electromagnetic waves has become the central target in various modern optical technologies. Optical metasurfaces have been suggested for a complete control of light-matter interaction with subwavelength structures, and they have been explored widely in the past decade for creating next-generation multifunctional flat-optics devices. The current studies of metasurfaces have reached a mature stage where common materials, basic optical physics, and conventional engineering tools have been explored extensively for various applications such as light bending, metalenses, metaholograms, and many others. A natural question is where the future research on metasurfaces will be going: Quo vadis, metasurfaces? In this Mini Review, we provide perspectives on the future developments of optical metasurfaces. Specifically, we highlight recent progresses on hybrid metasurfaces employing low-dimensional materials and discuss biomedical, computational, and quantum applications of metasurfaces, followed by discussions of challenges and foreseeing the future of metasurface physics and engineering.

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  • The benefits of RIS-empowered FL systems highly depend on the capabilities of manipulating electromagnetic waves at the metasurfaces.

    “The benefits of RIS-empowered FL systems highly depend on the capabilities of manipulating electromagnetic waves at the metasurfaces [49], whose reconfigurability is typically enabled by switches, tunable material, topological metasurfaces, and hybrid metasurfaces [299].”

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Authors
Qiu, C.-W., Zhang, T., Hu, G., & Kivshar, Y.
Affiliations
  • National University of Singapore (SG)
  • Australian National University (AU)
Corresponding author
  • Qiu, Cheng-Wei
  • Kivshar, Yuri
Venue
Nano Letters
Published
2021-06-23
Volume
21
Issue
13
Pages
5461-5474
ISSN
  • 1530-6984 (ISSN-L)
  • 1530-6992
OpenAlex
W3176467937
Cited by
243
References
99
Citations by year
2026: 21 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 58 · 2023: 73 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 4
FWCI
2.97
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nano Letters (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Australian Research Council (DP210101292)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Aerospace Engineering › Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
Keywords
optical metasurfaces, flat optics, hybrid metasurfaces, low-dimensional materials, light deflection, metalenses, biomedical applications, computer applications, quantum applications, light-matter interaction
MeSH terms
Optics and Photonics

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