An Ultrathin, Fast-Response, Large-Scale Liquid-Crystal-Facilitated Multi-Functional Reconfigurable Metasurface for Comprehensive Wavefront Modulation

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 36(2024), 26 vom: 27. Juni, Seite e2402170
1. Verfasser: Wu, Xin Yu (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Feng, Hong Yuan, Wan, Fengshuo, Wei, Meng, Guo, Chong, Cai, Longzhu, Wu, Fan, Jiang, Zhi Hao, Kang, Lei, Hong, Wei, Werner, Douglas H
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article beam steering liquid crystals metasurfaces reconfigurable hologram wavefront shaping
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520 |a The rapid advancement of prevailing communication/sensing technologies necessitates cost-effective millimeter-wave arrays equipped with a massive number of phase-shifting cells to perform complicated beamforming tasks. Conventional approaches employing semiconductor switch/varactor components or tunable materials encounter obstacles such as quantization loss, high cost, high complexity, and limited adaptability for realizing large-scale arrays. Here, a low-cost, ultrathin, fast-response, and large-scale solution relying on metasurface concepts combined together with liquid crystal (LC) materials requiring a layer thickness of only 5 µm is reported. Rather than immersing resonant structures in LCs, a joint material-circuit-based strategy is devised, via integrating deep-subwavelength-thick LCs into slow-wave structures, to achieve constitutive metacells with continuous phase shifting and stable reflectivity. An LC-facilitated reconfigurable metasurface sub-system containing more than 2300 metacells is realized with its unprecedented comprehensive wavefront manipulation capacity validated through various beamforming functions, including beam focusing/steering, reconfigurable vortex beams, and tunable holograms, demonstrating a milli-second-level function-switching speed. The proposed methodology offers a paradigm shift for modulating electromagnetic waves in a non-resonating broadband fashion with fast-response and low-cost properties by exploiting functionalized LC-enabled metasurfaces. Moreover, this extremely agile metasurface-enabled antenna technology will facilitate a transformative impact on communication/sensing systems and empower new possibilities for wavefront engineering and diffractive wave calculation/inference 
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700 1 |a Feng, Hong Yuan  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Wan, Fengshuo  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Wei, Meng  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Guo, Chong  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Cai, Longzhu  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Wu, Fan  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Jiang, Zhi Hao  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Kang, Lei  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Hong, Wei  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Werner, Douglas H  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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