Mechanically reprogrammable Pancharatnam–Berry metasurface for microwaves

Quan Xu; Xiaoqiang Su; Xueqian Zhang; Lijuan Dong; Lifeng Liu; Yunlong Shi; Qiu Wang; Ming Kang; Andrea Alù; Shuang Zhang; Jiaguang Han; Weili Zhang

doi:10.1117/1.AP.4.1.016002

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 4, Issue 1, 016002(2022)

Mechanically reprogrammable Pancharatnam–Berry metasurface for microwaves On the Cover

Quan Xu¹, Xiaoqiang Su^2、*, Xueqian Zhang¹, Lijuan Dong², Lifeng Liu², Yunlong Shi², Qiu Wang³, Ming Kang⁴, Andrea Alù^5,6, Shuang Zhang^7,8、*, Jiaguang Han^1,9、*, and Weili Zhang^10、*

Author Affiliations

¹Tianjin University, Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Technology (Ministry of Education of China), Tianjin, China

²Shanxi Datong University, Institute of Solid State Physics and College of Physics and Electronic Science, Shanxi Province Key Laboratory of Microstructure Electromagnetic Functional Materials, Datong, China

³Wuhan University of Technology, School of Information Engineering, Wuhan, China

⁴Tianjin Normal University, College of Physics and Materials Science, Tianjin, China

⁵City University of New York, Advanced Science Research Center, Photonics Initiative, New York, United States

⁶City University of New York, Graduate Center, Physics Program, New York, United States

⁷University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, Hong Kong, China

⁸University of Hong Kong, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong, China

⁹Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing, School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Guilin, China

¹⁰Oklahoma State University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States

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Category: Research Articles

Received: Sep. 27, 2021

Accepted: Dec. 27, 2021

Published Online: Feb. 18, 2022

The Author Email: Su Xiaoqiang (xiaoqiang.su@sxdtdx.edu.cn), Zhang Shuang (shuzhang@hku.hk), Han Jiaguang (jiaghan@tju.edu.cn), Zhang Weili (weili.zhang@okstate.edu)

DOI:10.1117/1.AP.4.1.016002

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