From 3D movie screens to augmented-reality devices, many modern technologies rely on our ability to manipulate light. Doing ...

New research explores silicon nanorods in metasurfaces for polarization holographic encryption, addressing image recovery and ...

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 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 ...

A new LED design uses a built-in nanoscale metasurface to emit circularly polarized light directly, eliminating bulky optics ...

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 ...

In the race toward practical quantum computers and networks, photons—fundamental particles of light—hold intriguing possibilities as fast carriers of information at room temperature. Subscribe to our ...

Physicists in China have demonstrated that a structure called an optical metasurface can individually trap up to 78,400 ...

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 ...