Metasurfaces: Towards Tunable and Reconfigurable Meta-devices

Weiming Zhu · Ai-Qun Liu

Nov 2022 · Springer Nature

About this ebook

Metamaterials and metasurfaces are developing exciting new frontier researches on reconfigurable materials with promising applications on tunable and active devices. The combination of metamaterials and microsystems not only uncap the controllability limits of optical metamaterials, but also pave the way for vast applications. This book focuses on structural reconfiguration of metasurfaces and metamaterials using microsystems, which have previously been developed for tiny machines and droplets formations. It covers multi-disciplinary researches on reconfigurable metamaterials and metasurfaces revealing their potential applications on densely integrated devices with working frequencies ranging from GHz to infrared region. Topics like MEMS metamaterials, frequency selective surface, photonic reconfigurable metasurfaces, and microfluidic metamaterials are just a few examples, which present lively research communities within the scope of this book. This book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in fundamental science and technology of micro-optics and artificial materials, researchers in the field of reconfigurable and tunable metamaterials, and engineers working on tunable lens, Lidar, beam steering devices, or other applications.

About the author

Dr. Weiming Zhu received his Ph.D. degree from ESIEE Paris East University, France, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2011. His M.Sc. degree and B.Sc. degree were both from Wuhan University, China, in 2006 and 2001, respectively. Dr. Zhu was as Senior Research Fellow at School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), from 2011 to 2015. After that, he was Research Fellow in SIMTech, Singapore, A*STAR until 2017. Currently, he is as Professor in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Dr. Zhu's main research interests are nanophotonics, MEMS, and microfluidic systems.

Dr. Ai-Qun Liu received Ph.D. degree from National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1994. Currently, he is Professor at School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Prof. Liu is interested in the research fields of photonics, optofluidics, and quantum photonic device and system. He serves as Editor and Editorial Board Member of several journals. He is Author of over 200 publications including peer-reviewed journal papers and two books. Also, he is OSA Fellow, RCS Fellow, and SPIE Fellow.