Metamaterials and Transformation Optics

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2019) | Viewed by 3415

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Dear Colleagues,

Since the transformation optics (TO) technique was proposed for the design of an electromagnetic invisibility cloak in 2006, various other applications have emerged over the last decade. TO shows that the space for light can be designed and engineered using metamaterials, leading to the possibility of controlling light flow. Moreover, TO has been extended into several other domains of physics, including acoustics, elasticity, and thermal flow. New manufacturing techniques, such as 3D printing, have further allowed for implementing TO-based broadband devices.

This Special Issue of the journal Applied Sciences, “Metamaterials and Transformation Optics”, aims to cover recent advances in metamaterial engineering for the development of TO as well as related applications. We invite theoretical, computational, and experimental papers ranging from basic research and new design ideas, to the development of advanced and functional applications of the TO concept.

Dr. Shah Nawaz Burokur
Dr. Jianjia Yi
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Keywords

  • transformation optics
  • theoretical formulations
  • limitations and challenges in fabrication, microwave and optical designs

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Ultrathin Microwave Devices for Polarization-Dependent Wavefront Shaping Based on an Anisotropic Metasurface
by Kai Guo and Zhongyi Guo
Appl. Sci. 2018, 8(12), 2471; https://doi.org/10.3390/app8122471 - 03 Dec 2018
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Abstract
Metasurfaces have recently become a promising material, offering new degrees of freedom in molding electromagnetic wave properties. In this work, we propose and numerically investigate ultrathin microwave devices for polarization-dependent wavefront shaping based on an anisotropic metasurface, which consists of a square metal [...] Read more.
Metasurfaces have recently become a promising material, offering new degrees of freedom in molding electromagnetic wave properties. In this work, we propose and numerically investigate ultrathin microwave devices for polarization-dependent wavefront shaping based on an anisotropic metasurface, which consists of a square metal ring with a cross, a dielectric substrate, and a metal ground plane. It is demonstrated the proposed metasurface can independently manipulate reflective x- and y-polarized wavefronts at frequency of 15 GHz via engineering of the metal cross. Furthermore, the reflective efficient is extremely high, reaching a near-unity value of 0.98. Based on this anisotropic metasurface, a polarization beam splitter is achieved by artificially arranging the spatial distribution of metasurfaces with prescribed geometries. In addition, we successfully design a focusing metasurface to separate the x- and y-polarized beams via focusing them at different positions. The proposed approach paves a way toward the applications of the metasurface in a microwave band. Full article
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