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Title: Roadmap for Optical Metasurfaces
Metasurfaces have recently risen to prominence in optical research, providing unique functionalities that can be used for imaging, beam forming, holography, polarimetry, and many more, while keeping device dimensions small. Despite the fact that a vast range of basic metasurface designs has already been thoroughly studied in the literature, the number of metasurfacerelated papers is still growing at a rapid pace, as metasurface research is now spreading to adjacent fields, including computational imaging, augmented and virtual reality, automotive, display, biosensing, nonlinear, quantum and topological optics, optical computing, and more. At the same time, the ability of metasurfaces to perform optical functions in much more compact optical systems has triggered strong and constantly growing interest from various industries that greatly benefit from the availability of miniaturized, highly functional, and efficient optical components that can be integrated in optoelectronic systems at low cost. This creates a truly unique opportunity for the field of metasurfaces to make both a scientific and an industrial impact. The goal of this Roadmap is to mark this “golden age” of metasurface research and define future directions to encourage scientists and engineers to drive research and development in the field of metasurfaces toward both scientific excellence and broad industrial adoption.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2107313 2207972 2127235 2015025 2120774
PAR ID:
10531547
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
ACS Publications
Date Published:
Journal Name:
ACS Photonics
Volume:
11
Issue:
3
ISSN:
2330-4022
Page Range / eLocation ID:
816 to 865
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
metasurface, metalens, flat optics, inverse and topological design, computational imaging, tunable metasurfaces, new concepts, emerging material platforms, large-scale nanofabrication, metasurface applications
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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