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A metasurfaces review: Definitions and applications

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posted on 2019-07-08, 12:47 authored by Syed S. Bukhari, J.C. Vardaxoglou, William WhittowWilliam Whittow
This paper is a critical review of metasurfaces, which are planar metamaterials. Metamaterials offer bespoke electromagnetic applications and novel properties which are not found in naturally occurring materials. However, owing to their 3D-nature and resonant characteristics, they suffer from manufacturing complexity, losses and are highly dispersive. The 2-dimensional nature of metasurfaces allows ease of fabrication and integration into devices. The phase discontinuity across the metasurface offers anomalous refraction, thereby conserving the good metamaterial properties while still offering the low-loss characteristics. The paper discusses salient features and applications of metasurfaces; wavefront shaping; phase jumps; non-linear metasurfaces; and their use as frequency selective surfaces (FSS).

Funding

EPSRC, grant number EP/S030301/1, “Anisotropic Microwave/Terahertz Metamaterials for Satellite Applications (ANISAT)”.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Applied Sciences

Volume

9

Issue

13

Pages

2727 - 2727

Citation

BUKHARI, S.S., VARDAXOGLOU, J.C. and WHITTOW, W.G., 2019. A metasurfaces review: Definitions and applications. Applied Sciences, 9 (13), 2727.

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MDPI AG © The Authors

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2019-06-30

Publication date

2019-07-05

Copyright date

2019

Notes

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

eISSN

2076-3417

Language

  • en

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