Electromagnetic (EM) wave front modulation has important significance in both scientific researches and industrial applications. However, conventional dielectric materials have limited choices of ...

Artificial intelligence speeds metasurface design from unit cells to full optical systems, enabling compact imaging, AR and VR displays and advanced LiDAR. (Nanowerk News) Optical metasurfaces, with ...

A new material platform has enabled scientists to create photon pairs whose entanglement can be tuned from a layer thinner than a human hair. The photon pairs are created by a metasurface made of ...

A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered materials that can manipulate light and other forms of electromagnetic ...

Researchers use large language models to streamline nanoscopic material design for advanced optical systems like camera lenses and VR headsets. (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers at Penn State have ...

Controlling both the state and degree of polarization of light is a long-standing challenge in optics. While metasurfaces offer compact, high-resolution control over wavefronts, most existing designs ...

A project at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) has developed a metasurface intended to extract polarimetric imaging data more rapidly and cost effectively than current methods. Described in ...

A flat chip smaller than a fingernail can now do the work of 11 separate optical components, thanks to a counterintuitive design choice: deliberately scrambling the layout of its light-bending ...