AI workloads strain electrical networks. Programmable metasurface solid-state optical switching offers a scalable solution.

A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered materials that can manipulate light and other forms of electromagnetic ...

A new material platform has enabled scientists to create photon pairs whose entanglement can be tuned from a layer thinner than a human hair. The photon pairs are created by a metasurface made of ...

Artificial intelligence speeds metasurface design from unit cells to full optical systems, enabling compact imaging, AR and VR displays and advanced LiDAR. (Nanowerk News) Optical metasurfaces, with ...

A new single-layer chiral metasurface detects circularly polarized light efficiently, offering a compact, high-performance alternative to bulky optical systems. (Nanowerk News) Detecting circularly ...

A silicon metasurface uses polarization of light as a key, allowing different encrypted holographic images to be recovered from the same structure under different illumination conditions. Study: ...

The terahertz (THz) band of the electromagnetic spectrum holds immense promise for next-generation technologies, including high-speed wireless communication, advanced encryption, and medical imaging.

Controlling both the state and degree of polarization of light is a long-standing challenge in optics. While metasurfaces offer compact, high-resolution control over wavefronts, most existing designs ...

A group of researchers at Penn State developed an approach that integrates artificial intelligence into metasurface design. Their work was featured on the cover of the October issue of Nanophotonics.