Design, Concepts and Applications of Electromagnetic Metasurfaces

TL;DR

This paper reviews the synthesis, concepts, and applications of electromagnetic metasurfaces, emphasizing the GSTC-based susceptibility tensor approach and showcasing recent innovative functionalities and uses.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive susceptibility-GSTC synthesis method for metasurfaces and demonstrates five novel applications in electromagnetic wave manipulation.

Findings

Development of a susceptibility-GSTC synthesis technique

Implementation of metasurfaces for birefringent transformations

Enhancement of light emission and nonlinear effects

Abstract

The paper overviews our recent work on the synthesis of metasurfaces and related concepts and applications. The synthesis is based on generalized sheet transition conditions (GSTCs) with a bianisotropic surface susceptibility tensor model of the metasurface structure. We first place metasurfaces in a proper historical context and describe the GSTC technique with some fundamental susceptibility tensor considerations. Upon this basis, we next provide an in-depth development of our susceptibility-GSTC synthesis technique. Finally, we present five recent metasurface concepts and applications, which cover the topics of birefringent transformations, bianisotropic refraction, light emission enhancement, remote spatial processing and nonlinear second-harmonic generation.