Tutorial on metalenses for advanced flat optics: Design, fabrication, and critical considerations

Printable Nanocomposite Metalens for High-Contrast Near-Infrared Imaging

(2021) Gwanho Yoon et al.   ACS Nano

Backward Phase-Matched Second-Harmonic Generation from Stacked Metasurfaces

(2021) Timo Stolt et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A Varifocal Graphene Metalens for Broadband Zoom Imaging Covering the Entire Visible Region

(2021) Shibiao Wei et al.   ACS Nano

Revealing Structural Disorder in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon for a Low‐Loss Photonic Platform at Visible Frequencies

(2021) Younghwan Yang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

MAXIM: Metasurfaces-oriented electromagnetic wave simulation software with intuitive graphical user interfaces

(2021) Gwanho Yoon et al.   COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS

Top-down nanofabrication approaches toward single-digit-nanometer scale structures

(2021) Dong Kyo Oh et al.   Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology

Metasurface optics for on-demand polarization transformations along the optical path

(2021) Ahmed H. Dorrah et al.   Nature Photonics

Electromechanically reconfigurable optical nano-kirigami

(2021) Shanshan Chen et al.   Nature Communications

Reconfigurable all-dielectric metalens with diffraction-limited performance

(2021) Mikhail Y. Shalaginov et al.   Nature Communications

Electrically Actuated Varifocal Lens Based on Liquid-Crystal-Embedded Dielectric Metasurfaces

(2021) Melissa Bosch et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nanophotonics for light detection and ranging technology

(2021) Inki Kim et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Electrical tuning of phase-change antennas and metasurfaces

(2021) Yifei Wang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Electrically reconfigurable non-volatile metasurface using low-loss optical phase-change material

(2021) Yifei Zhang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

High-performance gallium nitride dielectric metalenses for imaging in the visible

(2021) Meng-Hsin Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

Ultrahigh numerical aperture meta-fibre for flexible optical trapping

(2021) Malte Plidschun et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Holographic metasurface gas sensors for instantaneous visual alarms

(2021) Inki Kim et al.   Science Advances

Metasurface-Driven Optically Variable Devices

(2021) Chunghwan Jung et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Recent progress on metasurfaces: applications and fabrication

(2021) Gwanho Yoon et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Fundamental Limitations of Huygens’ Metasurfaces for Optical Beam Shaping

(2021) Carlo Gigli et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Varifocal Metalens for Optical Sectioning Fluorescence Microscopy

(2021) Yuan Luo et al.   NANO LETTERS

Electrically Tunable Multifunctional Polarization-Dependent Metasurfaces Integrated with Liquid Crystals in the Visible Region

(2021) Yueqiang Hu et al.   NANO LETTERS

High-efficiency broadband achromatic metalens for near-IR biological imaging window

(2021) Yujie Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Pixelated bifunctional metasurface-driven dynamic vectorial holographic color prints for photonic security platform

(2021) Inki Kim et al.   Nature Communications

Inverse design of ultra-narrowband selective thermal emitters designed by artificial neural networks

(2021) Sunae So et al.   Optical Materials Express

Multiobjective Statistical Learning Optimization of RGB Metalens

(2021) Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy et al.   ACS Photonics

Inverse Design of Metasurfaces Based on Coupled-Mode Theory and Adjoint Optimization

(2021) Ming Zhou et al.   ACS Photonics

Electrically Tunable Bifocal Metalens with Diffraction‐Limited Focusing and Imaging at Visible Wavelengths

(2021) Trevon Badloe et al.   Advanced Science

Dynamic piezoelectric MEMS-based optical metasurfaces

(2021) Chao Meng et al.   Science Advances

Phase change induced active metasurface devices for dynamic wavefront control

(2020) Shaolin Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Metasurface-integrated vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers for programmable directional lasing emissions

(2020) Yi-Yang Xie et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Gate-controlled terahertz focusing based on graphene-loaded metasurface

(2020) Naeem Ullah et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

High-NA achromatic metalenses by inverse design

(2020) Haejun Chung et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Cavity-enhanced metallic metalens with improved Efficiency

(2020) Hanmeng Li et al.   Scientific Reports

Tunable metasurfaces for visible and SWIR applications

(2020) Chang-Won Lee et al.   Nano Convergence

Electro-Optically Tunable Multifunctional Metasurfaces

(2020) Ghazaleh Kafaie Shirmanesh et al.   ACS Nano

Metasurfaces: Subwavelength nanostructure arrays for ultrathin flat optics and photonics

(2020) Junsuk Rho   MRS BULLETIN

Nonlinear Imaging with All-Dielectric Metasurfaces

(2020) Christian Schlickriede et al.   NANO LETTERS

Compound-eye metasurface optics enabling a high-sensitivity, ultra-thin polarization camera

(2020) Masashi Miyata et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Electrically modulated varifocal metalens combined with twisted nematic liquid crystals

(2020) Chun-Yuan Fan et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

The advantages of metalenses over diffractive lenses

(2020) Jacob Engelberg et al.   Nature Communications

Single-step manufacturing of hierarchical dielectric metalens in the visible

(2020) Gwanho Yoon et al.   Nature Communications

Compact Optical Polarization‐Insensitive Zoom Metalens Doublet

(2020) Yunxuan Wei et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Low-loss metasurface optics down to the deep ultraviolet region

(2020) Cheng Zhang et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Controlling dispersion in multifunctional metasurfaces

(2020) Jared Sisler et al.   APL Photonics

Liquid crystal integrated metalens with dynamic focusing property

(2020) Shenghang Zhou et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Multifunctional Nonlocal Metasurfaces

(2020) Adam C. Overvig et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Metalens-array–based high-dimensional and multiphoton quantum source

(2020) Lin Li et al.   SCIENCE

Octave bandwidth photonic fishnet-achromatic-metalens

(2020) Abdoulaye Ndao et al.   Nature Communications

Electrically focus-tuneable ultrathin lens for high-resolution square subpixels

(2020) Sehong Park et al.   Light-Science & Applications

All-dielectric silicon metalens for two-dimensional particle manipulation in optical tweezers

(2020) Teanchai Chantakit et al.   Photonics Research

Flat optics with dispersion-engineered metasurfaces

(2020) Wei Ting Chen et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Electrical Dynamic Switching of Magnetic Plasmon Resonance Based on Selective Lithium Deposition

(2020) Yan Jin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Single-Element Diffraction-Limited Fisheye Metalens

(2020) Mikhail Y. Shalaginov et al.   NANO LETTERS

Complex-amplitude metasurface-based orbital angular momentum holography in momentum space

(2020) Haoran Ren et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

All-solid-state spatial light modulator with independent phase and amplitude control for three-dimensional LiDAR applications

(2020) Junghyun Park et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Graphene-enabled electrically tunability of metalens in the terahertz range

(2020) ZhaoKun Zhang et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Metasurface-driven OLED displays beyond 10,000 pixels per inch

(2020) Won-Jae Joo et al.   SCIENCE

Snapshot spectral imaging with parallel metasystems

(2020) Andrew McClung et al.   Science Advances

Recent Progress on Ultrathin Metalenses for Flat Optics

(2020) Seong-Won Moon et al.   iScience

Achromatic metalens array for full-colour light-field imaging

(2019) Ren Jie Lin et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

A broadband achromatic polarization-insensitive metalens consisting of anisotropic nanostructures

(2019) Wei Ting Chen et al.   Nature Communications

Tunable Metasurfaces: Kerker-Conditioned Dynamic Cryptographic Nanoprints (Advanced Optical Materials 4/2019)

(2019) Jaehyuck Jang et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

A Light-Field Metasurface for High-Resolution Single-Particle Tracking

(2019) Aaron L. Holsteen et al.   NANO LETTERS

A Spin‐Encoded All‐Dielectric Metahologram for Visible Light

(2019) Muhammad Afnan Ansari et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Phase Modulation with Electrically Tunable Vanadium Dioxide Phase-Change Metasurfaces

(2019) Yonghwi Kim et al.   NANO LETTERS

Multifocal metalens with a controllable intensity ratio

(2019) Haoran Lv et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Facile Nanocasting of Dielectric Metasurfaces with Sub-100 nm Resolution

(2019) Kwan Kim et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Phase-only transmissive spatial light modulator based on tunable dielectric metasurface

(2019) Shi-Qiang Li et al.   SCIENCE

Matrix Fourier optics enables a compact full-Stokes polarization camera

(2019) Noah A. Rubin et al.   SCIENCE

Temporal color mixing and dynamic beam shaping with silicon metasurfaces

(2019) Aaron L. Holsteen et al.   SCIENCE

Spatiotemporal light control with frequency-gradient metasurfaces

(2019) Amr M. Shaltout et al.   SCIENCE

High-Efficiency Visible Light Manipulation Using Dielectric Metasurfaces

(2019) Rifat Ahmmed Aoni et al.   Scientific Reports

Plasmonic metasurfaces with 42.3% transmission efficiency in the visible

(2019) Jihua Zhang et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Far-Field Superoscillatory Metamaterial Superlens

(2019) Guanghui Yuan et al.   Physical Review Applied

Achromatic Varifocal Metalens for the Visible Spectrum

(2019) Maxwell D. Aiello et al.   ACS Photonics

All-Glass, Large Metalens at Visible Wavelength Using Deep-Ultraviolet Projection Lithography

(2019) Joon-Suh Park et al.   NANO LETTERS

Dynamic beam steering with all-dielectric electro-optic III–V multiple-quantum-well metasurfaces

(2019) Pin Chieh Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Polariton nanophotonics using phase-change materials

(2019) Kundan Chaudhary et al.   Nature Communications

Spectral tomographic imaging with aplanatic metalens

(2019) Chen Chen et al.   Light-Science & Applications

High performance metalenses: numerical aperture, aberrations, chromaticity, and trade-offs

(2019) Haowen Liang et al.   Optica

“Crypto-Display” in Dual-Mode Metasurfaces by Simultaneous Control of Phase and Spectral Responses

(2018) Gwanho Yoon et al.   ACS Nano

Metasurface Enabled Wide-Angle Fourier Lens

(2018) Wenwei Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Imaging through Nonlinear Metalens Using Second Harmonic Generation

(2018) Christian Schlickriede et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Planar Diffractive Lenses: Fundamentals, Functionalities, and Applications

(2018) Kun Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ultrahigh Numerical Aperture Metalens at Visible Wavelengths

(2018) Haowen Liang et al.   NANO LETTERS

A Metalens with a Near-Unity Numerical Aperture

(2018) Ramón Paniagua-Domínguez et al.   NANO LETTERS

Single-Layer Metasurface with Controllable Multiwavelength Functions

(2018) Zhujun Shi et al.   NANO LETTERS

Two-photon microscopy with a double-wavelength metasurface objective lens

(2018) Ehsan Arbabi et al.   NANO LETTERS

A broadband achromatic metalens in the visible

(2018) Shuming Wang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

A broadband achromatic metalens for focusing and imaging in the visible

(2018) Wei Ting Chen et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Generalized Kerker effects in nanophotonics and meta-optics [Invited]

(2018) Wei Liu et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Advances in optical metasurfaces: fabrication and applications [Invited]

(2018) Vin-Cent Su et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

MEMS-tunable dielectric metasurface lens

(2018) Ehsan Arbabi et al.   Nature Communications

Varifocal zoom imaging with large area focal length adjustable metalenses

(2018) Shane Colburn et al.   Optica

Adaptive metalenses with simultaneous electrical control of focal length, astigmatism, and shift

(2018) Alan She et al.   Science Advances

Nano-optic endoscope for high-resolution optical coherence tomography in vivo

(2018) Hamid Pahlevaninezhad et al.   Nature Photonics

Polarization-sensitive tunable absorber in visible and near-infrared regimes

(2018) Dasol Lee et al.   Scientific Reports

Multilayer Noninteracting Dielectric Metasurfaces for Multiwavelength Metaoptics

(2018) You Zhou et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nonlocal Metasurfaces for Optical Signal Processing

(2018) Hoyeong Kwon et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Compact folded metasurface spectrometer

(2018) MohammadSadegh Faraji-Dana et al.   Nature Communications

Metasurface eyepiece for augmented reality

(2018) Gun-Yeal Lee et al.   Nature Communications

Broadband achromatic dielectric metalenses

(2018) Sajan Shrestha et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Electrically Driven Varifocal Silicon Metalens

(2018) Adeel Afridi et al.   ACS Photonics

Uniform Thermo-Optic Tunability of Dielectric Metalenses

(2018) Prasad P. Iyer et al.   Physical Review Applied

Metalenses at visible wavelengths: past, present, perspectives

(2017) Philippe Lalanne et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Achromatic Metalens over 60 nm Bandwidth in the Visible and Metalens with Reverse Chromatic Dispersion

(2017) M. Khorasaninejad et al.   NANO LETTERS

Immersion Meta-Lenses at Visible Wavelengths for Nanoscale Imaging

(2017) Wei Ting Chen et al.   NANO LETTERS

GaN Metalens for Pixel-Level Full-Color Routing at Visible Light

(2017) Bo Han Chen et al.   NANO LETTERS

Meta-Lens Doublet in the Visible Region

(2017) Benedikt Groever et al.   NANO LETTERS

Metasurface Polarization Optics: Independent Phase Control of Arbitrary Orthogonal States of Polarization

(2017) J. P. Balthasar Mueller et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Composite functional metasurfaces for multispectral achromatic optics

(2017) Ori Avayu et al.   Nature Communications

Broadband achromatic optical metasurface devices

(2017) Shuming Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Fabrication of three-dimensional suspended, interlayered and hierarchical nanostructures by accuracy-improved electron beam lithography overlay

(2017) Gwanho Yoon et al.   Scientific Reports

Recent advances in planar optics: from plasmonic to dielectric metasurfaces

(2017) Patrice Genevet et al.   Optica

Challenges in fabrication towards realization of practical metamaterials

(2016) Gwanho Yoon et al.   MICROELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

Tunable Metasurface and Flat Optical Zoom Lens on a Stretchable Substrate

(2016) Ho-Seok Ee et al.   NANO LETTERS

Polarization-Insensitive Metalenses at Visible Wavelengths

(2016) M. Khorasaninejad et al.   NANO LETTERS

Broadband high-efficiency dielectric metasurfaces for the visible spectrum

(2016) Robert C. Devlin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Photonic spin-controlled multifunctional shared-aperture antenna array

(2016) Elhanan Maguid et al.   SCIENCE

Metalenses at visible wavelengths: Diffraction-limited focusing and subwavelength resolution imaging

(2016) Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad et al.   SCIENCE

Miniature optical planar camera based on a wide-angle metasurface doublet corrected for monochromatic aberrations

(2016) Amir Arbabi et al.   Nature Communications

Ultrabroadband superoscillatory lens composed by plasmonic metasurfaces for subdiffraction light focusing

(2015) Dongliang Tang et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Recent Progress in High Refractive Index Polymers

(2015) Tomoya Higashihara et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Broadband Multifunctional Efficient Meta-Gratings Based on Dielectric Waveguide Phase Shifters

(2015) Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad et al.   NANO LETTERS

Dielectric metasurfaces for complete control of phase and polarization with subwavelength spatial resolution and high transmission

(2015) Amir Arbabi et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Conceptual design of a beam steering lens through transformation electromagnetics

(2015) Jianjia Yi et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

An ultrathin invisibility skin cloak for visible light

(2015) X. Ni et al.   SCIENCE

Subwavelength-thick lenses with high numerical apertures and large efficiency based on high-contrast transmitarrays

(2015) Amir Arbabi et al.   Nature Communications

Sub-Wavelength Grating Lenses With a Twist

(2014) Sonny Vo et al.   IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS

Dielectric gradient metasurface optical elements

(2014) D. Lin et al.   SCIENCE

Broadband Focusing Flat Mirrors Based on Plasmonic Gradient Metasurfaces

(2013) Anders Pors et al.   NANO LETTERS

Plasmonic metasurfaces for efficient phase control in reflection

(2013) Anders Pors et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Planar Photonics with Metasurfaces

(2013) A. V. Kildishev et al.   SCIENCE

Ultra-thin, planar, Babinet-inverted plasmonic metalenses

(2013) Xingjie Ni et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Aberration-Free Ultrathin Flat Lenses and Axicons at Telecom Wavelengths Based on Plasmonic Metasurfaces

(2012) Francesco Aieta et al.   NANO LETTERS

Gradient-index meta-surfaces as a bridge linking propagating waves and surface waves

(2012) Shulin Sun et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Light Propagation with Phase Discontinuities: Generalized Laws of Reflection and Refraction

(2011) N. Yu et al.   SCIENCE

Advanced Jones calculus for the classification of periodic metamaterials

(2010) Christoph Menzel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A