Tunable Metasurface Inverse Design for 80% Switching Efficiencies and 144 degrees Angular Deflection
- Authors
- Chung, Haejun; Miller, Owen D.
- Issue Date
- Aug-2020
- Publisher
- AMER CHEMICAL SOC
- Keywords
- tunable metasurface; inverse design; beam deflection; liquid crystal
- Citation
- ACS PHOTONICS, v.7, no.8, pp.2236 - 2243
- Journal Title
- ACS PHOTONICS
- Volume
- 7
- Number
- 8
- Start Page
- 2236
- End Page
- 2243
- URI
- http://scholarworks.bwise.kr/ssu/handle/2018.sw.ssu/40928
- DOI
- 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00787
- ISSN
- 2330-4022
- Abstract
- Tunable metasurfaces have demonstrated the potential for dramatically enhanced functionality for applications including sensing, ranging and imaging. Liquid crystals (LCs) have fast switching speeds, low cost, and mature technological development, offering a versatile platform for electrical tunability. However, to date, electrically tunable metasurfaces are typically designed at a single operational state using physical intuition, without controlling alternate states and thus leading to limited switching efficiencies (<30%) and small angular deflection (<25 degrees). Here, we use large-scale computational "inverse design" to discover high-performance designs through adjoint-based local-optimization design iterations within a global-optimization search. We study and explain the physics of these devices, which heavily rely on sophisticated resonator design to fully utilize the very small permittivity change incurred by switching the liquid-crystal voltage. The optimal devices show tunable deflection angles ranging from 12 degrees to 144 degrees and switching efficiencies above 80%, exhibiting 6x angular improvements and 6x efficiency improvements compared to the current state-of-the-art.
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