A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered materials that can manipulate light and other forms of electromagnetic ...

Record thermoelectric gain: TU Wien modified Heusler compounds at the atomic level to set a new performance record, offering potential for efficient waste heat recovery and cooling. Digitizing heat: ...

Artificial intelligence speeds metasurface design from unit cells to full optical systems, enabling compact imaging, AR and VR displays and advanced LiDAR. (Nanowerk News) Optical metasurfaces, with ...

A new single-layer chiral metasurface detects circularly polarized light efficiently, offering a compact, high-performance alternative to bulky optical systems. (Nanowerk News) Detecting circularly ...

A new material platform has enabled scientists to create photon pairs whose entanglement can be tuned from a layer thinner than a human hair. The photon pairs are created by a metasurface made of ...

Metasurfaces and metalenses are advancing high-resolution imaging, providing exceptional light control and improving ...

Controlling both the state and degree of polarization of light is a long-standing challenge in optics. While metasurfaces offer compact, high-resolution control over wavefronts, most existing designs ...

AI workloads strain electrical networks. Programmable metasurface solid-state optical switching offers a scalable solution.

A group of researchers at Penn State developed an approach that integrates artificial intelligence into metasurface design. Their work was featured on the cover of the October issue of Nanophotonics.