Electrically tunable all-dielectric optical metasurfaces based on liquid crystals
Abstract
We demonstrate electrical tuning of the spectral response of a Mie-resonant dielectric metasurface consisting of silicon nanodisks embedded into liquid crystals. We use the reorientation of nematic liquid crystals in a moderate applied electric field to alter the anisotropic permittivity tensor around the metasurface. By switching a control voltage ‘on’ and ‘off’ we induce a large spectral shift of the metasurface resonances, resulting in an absolute transmission modulation up to 75%. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first experimental demonstration of voltage control of a dielectric metasurface, paving the way for new types of electrically tunable metadevices, including dynamic displays and holograms.
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[2];
- Australian National Univ., Canberra, ACT (Australia)
- Friedrich Schiller Univ., Jena (Germany)
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Australian National Univ., Canberra, ACT (Australia); Friedrich Schiller Univ., Jena (Germany)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1356223
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1985577
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-2017-2081J
Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951; 651206
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Physics Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 110; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
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Komar, Andrei, Fang, Zheng, Bohn, Justus, Sautter, Jürgen, Decker, Manuel, Miroshnichenko, Andrey, Pertsch, Thomas, Brener, Igal, Kivshar, Yuri S., Staude, Isabelle, and Neshev, Dragomir N. Electrically tunable all-dielectric optical metasurfaces based on liquid crystals. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4976504.
Komar, Andrei, Fang, Zheng, Bohn, Justus, Sautter, Jürgen, Decker, Manuel, Miroshnichenko, Andrey, Pertsch, Thomas, Brener, Igal, Kivshar, Yuri S., Staude, Isabelle, & Neshev, Dragomir N. Electrically tunable all-dielectric optical metasurfaces based on liquid crystals. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4976504
Komar, Andrei, Fang, Zheng, Bohn, Justus, Sautter, Jürgen, Decker, Manuel, Miroshnichenko, Andrey, Pertsch, Thomas, Brener, Igal, Kivshar, Yuri S., Staude, Isabelle, and Neshev, Dragomir N. Mon .
"Electrically tunable all-dielectric optical metasurfaces based on liquid crystals". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4976504. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1356223.
@article{osti_1356223,
title = {Electrically tunable all-dielectric optical metasurfaces based on liquid crystals},
author = {Komar, Andrei and Fang, Zheng and Bohn, Justus and Sautter, Jürgen and Decker, Manuel and Miroshnichenko, Andrey and Pertsch, Thomas and Brener, Igal and Kivshar, Yuri S. and Staude, Isabelle and Neshev, Dragomir N.},
abstractNote = {We demonstrate electrical tuning of the spectral response of a Mie-resonant dielectric metasurface consisting of silicon nanodisks embedded into liquid crystals. We use the reorientation of nematic liquid crystals in a moderate applied electric field to alter the anisotropic permittivity tensor around the metasurface. By switching a control voltage ‘on’ and ‘off’ we induce a large spectral shift of the metasurface resonances, resulting in an absolute transmission modulation up to 75%. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first experimental demonstration of voltage control of a dielectric metasurface, paving the way for new types of electrically tunable metadevices, including dynamic displays and holograms.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4976504},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
number = 7,
volume = 110,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Mon Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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