Progress and applications of reconfigurable metasurfaces (<i>invited</i>)

Lei YANG; Haoran XIONG; Hanming WU; Shendong LIU; Yongtian WANG; Lingling HUANG

doi:10.3788/IRLA20240620

Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 54, Issue 3, 20240620(2025)

Progress and applications of reconfigurable metasurfaces (invited)

Lei YANG, Haoran XIONG, Hanming WU, Shendong LIU, Yongtian WANG, and Lingling HUANG^*

Beijing Engineering Research Center of Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

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Received: Jan. 2, 2025

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Published Online: Apr. 8, 2025

The Author Email: Lingling HUANG (huanglingling@bit.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/IRLA20240620

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