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Title: Inverse design of metasurfaces with non-local interactions

Abstract

Conventional metasurfaces have demonstrated efficient wavefront manipulation by using thick and high-aspect-ratio nanostructures in order to eliminate interactions between adjacent phase-shifter elements. Thinner-than-wavelength dielectric metasurfaces are highly desirable because they can facilitate fabrication and integration with both electronics and mechanically tunable platforms. Unfortunately, because their constitutive phase-shifter elements exhibit strong electromagnetic coupling between neighbors, the design requires a global optimization methodology that considers the non-local interactions. Here, we propose a global evolutionary optimization approach to inverse design non-local metasurfaces. The optimal designs are experimentally validated, demonstrating the highest efficiencies for the thinnest transmissive metalenses reported to-date for visible light. In a departure from conventional design methods based on the search of a library of pre-determined and independent meta-atoms, we take full advantage of the strong interactions among nanoresonators to improve the focusing efficiency of metalenses and demonstrate that efficiency improvements can be obtained by lowering the metasurface filling factors.

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Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1645140
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1764507
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
npj Computational Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: npj Computational Materials Journal Volume: 6 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2057-3960
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Evolutionary algorithm

Citation Formats

Cai, Haogang, Srinivasan, Srilok, Czaplewski, David A., Martinson, Alex B. F., Gosztola, David J., Stan, Liliana, Loeffler, Troy, Sankaranarayanan, Subramanian K. R. S., and López, Daniel. Inverse design of metasurfaces with non-local interactions. United Kingdom: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1038/s41524-020-00369-5.
Cai, Haogang, Srinivasan, Srilok, Czaplewski, David A., Martinson, Alex B. F., Gosztola, David J., Stan, Liliana, Loeffler, Troy, Sankaranarayanan, Subramanian K. R. S., & López, Daniel. Inverse design of metasurfaces with non-local interactions. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-020-00369-5
Cai, Haogang, Srinivasan, Srilok, Czaplewski, David A., Martinson, Alex B. F., Gosztola, David J., Stan, Liliana, Loeffler, Troy, Sankaranarayanan, Subramanian K. R. S., and López, Daniel. Wed . "Inverse design of metasurfaces with non-local interactions". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-020-00369-5.
@article{osti_1645140,
title = {Inverse design of metasurfaces with non-local interactions},
author = {Cai, Haogang and Srinivasan, Srilok and Czaplewski, David A. and Martinson, Alex B. F. and Gosztola, David J. and Stan, Liliana and Loeffler, Troy and Sankaranarayanan, Subramanian K. R. S. and López, Daniel},
abstractNote = {Conventional metasurfaces have demonstrated efficient wavefront manipulation by using thick and high-aspect-ratio nanostructures in order to eliminate interactions between adjacent phase-shifter elements. Thinner-than-wavelength dielectric metasurfaces are highly desirable because they can facilitate fabrication and integration with both electronics and mechanically tunable platforms. Unfortunately, because their constitutive phase-shifter elements exhibit strong electromagnetic coupling between neighbors, the design requires a global optimization methodology that considers the non-local interactions. Here, we propose a global evolutionary optimization approach to inverse design non-local metasurfaces. The optimal designs are experimentally validated, demonstrating the highest efficiencies for the thinnest transmissive metalenses reported to-date for visible light. In a departure from conventional design methods based on the search of a library of pre-determined and independent meta-atoms, we take full advantage of the strong interactions among nanoresonators to improve the focusing efficiency of metalenses and demonstrate that efficiency improvements can be obtained by lowering the metasurface filling factors.},
doi = {10.1038/s41524-020-00369-5},
journal = {npj Computational Materials},
number = 1,
volume = 6,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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