Learning deeply to vanish light: intelligent metasurface design for next-generation antireflection

Yuheng Chen; Vaishnavi Iyer; Alexander V. Kildishev; Vladimir M. Shalaev; Alexandra Boltasseva

doi:10.1117/1.AP.7.4.040502

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 7, Issue 4, 040502(2025)

Learning deeply to vanish light: intelligent metasurface design for next-generation antireflection

Yuheng Chen^1,2, Vaishnavi Iyer^1,2, Alexander V. Kildishev², Vladimir M. Shalaev^1,2, and Alexandra Boltasseva^1,2、*

¹Purdue University, Birck Nanotechnology Center, and Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

²Quantum Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States

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Yuheng Chen, Vaishnavi Iyer, Alexander V. Kildishev, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Alexandra Boltasseva, "Learning deeply to vanish light: intelligent metasurface design for next-generation antireflection," Adv. Photon. 7, 040502 (2025)

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