Complex non-local behavior makes designing high efficiency and multifunctional metasurfaces a significant challenge. While using libraries of meta-atoms provide a simple and fast implementation methodology, pillar to pillar interaction often imposes performance limitations. On the other extreme, inverse design based on topology optimization leverages non-local coupling to achieve high efficiency, but leads to complex and difficult to fabricate structures. In this paper, we demonstrate numerically and experimentally a shape optimization method that enables high efficiency metasurfaces while providing direct control of the structure complexity through a Fourier decomposition of the surface gradient. The proposed method provides a path towards manufacturability of inverse-designed high efficiency metasurfaces.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11519467 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41377-024-01629-5 | DOI Listing |
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