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Title: Chiral Kirigami for Bend‐Tolerant Reconfigurable Hologram with Continuously Variable Chirality Measures
Abstract Despite the commonality of static holograms, the holography with multiple information layers and reconfigurable grey‐scale images at communication frequencies remain a confluence of scientific challenges. One well‐known difficulty is the simultaneous modulation of phase and amplitude of electromagnetic wavefronts with a high modulation depth. A less appreciated challenge is scrambling of the information and images with hologram bending. Here, this work shows that chirality‐guided pixelation of plasmonic kirigami sheets enables tunable multiplexed holography at terahertz (THz) frequencies. The convex and concave structures with slanted Au strips exhibit gradual variations in geometries facilitating modulation of light ellipticity reaching 40 deg. Real‐time switching of 3D images of the letter “M” and theMona Lisademonstrates the possibility of complex grey‐scale information content and importance of continuously variable mirror asymmetry. Microscale chirality measures of each pixel experiences little change with bending while retaining controllable reconfigurability upon stretching, which translates to remarkable resilience of chiral holograms to bending. Simplicity of their design with local chirality measures opens the door to information technologies with fault‐tolerant THz encryption, wearable holographic devices, and new communication technologies.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2243104
PAR ID:
10515080
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Advanced Materials
Volume:
36
Issue:
30
ISSN:
0935-9648
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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