Published March 20, 2024 | Version Published
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Roadmap for Optical Metasurfaces

  • 1. ROR icon Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
  • 2. ROR icon Stanford University
  • 3. ROR icon City University of Hong Kong
  • 4. ROR icon Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 5. ROR icon University of Southampton
  • 6. ROR icon Nanyang Technological University
  • 7. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 8. ROR icon University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 9. ROR icon Columbia University
  • 10. ROR icon University of Central Florida
  • 11. ROR icon University of Melbourne
  • 12. ROR icon Purdue University West Lafayette
  • 13. ROR icon Singapore University of Technology and Design
  • 14. ROR icon Vanderbilt University
  • 15. ROR icon Colorado School of Mines
  • 16. ROR icon Yale University
  • 17. ROR icon University of Washington
  • 18. ROR icon University of Arizona
  • 19. ROR icon Princeton University
  • 20. ROR icon Rice University
  • 21. ROR icon University of Pennsylvania
  • 22. ROR icon CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
  • 23. ROR icon The Graduate Center, CUNY
  • 24. ROR icon Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • 25. ROR icon University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 26. ROR icon University of Buenos Aires
  • 27. ROR icon Australian National University
  • 28. ROR icon Harvard University
  • 29. ROR icon Pohang University of Science and Technology
  • 30. ROR icon Pohang Iron and Steel (South Korea)
  • 31. ROR icon Samsung (South Korea)

Abstract

Metasurfaces have recently risen to prominence in optical research, providing unique functionalities that can be used for imaging, beam forming, holography, polarimetry, and many more, while keeping device dimensions small. Despite the fact that a vast range of basic metasurface designs has already been thoroughly studied in the literature, the number of metasurface-related papers is still growing at a rapid pace, as metasurface research is now spreading to adjacent fields, including computational imaging, augmented and virtual reality, automotive, display, biosensing, nonlinear, quantum and topological optics, optical computing, and more. At the same time, the ability of metasurfaces to perform optical functions in much more compact optical systems has triggered strong and constantly growing interest from various industries that greatly benefit from the availability of miniaturized, highly functional, and efficient optical components that can be integrated in optoelectronic systems at low cost. This creates a truly unique opportunity for the field of metasurfaces to make both a scientific and an industrial impact. The goal of this Roadmap is to mark this “golden age” of metasurface research and define future directions to encourage scientists and engineers to drive research and development in the field of metasurfaces toward both scientific excellence and broad industrial adoption.

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Acknowledgement

Section 1: The authors would like to thank Prof. Federico Capasso for valuable discussions at the initial stage of this effort. A.I.K. would like to acknowledge the support by the AME Programmatic Grant No. A18A7b0058 (Singapore), MTC Programmatic Grant No. M21J9b0085 (Singapore), the IET A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize 2016, and by the National Research Foundation of Singapore under Grant NRF-NRFI2017-01; M.L.B. would like to acknowledge funding from an AFOSR MURI Grant (FA9550-17-1-0002), a U.S. Department of Energy Grant (DE-FG07-ER46426), and the DOE “Photonics at Thermodynamic Limits” Energy Frontier Research Center under Grant DE-SC0019140. Section 2: This work was supported by the University Grants Committee/Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. AoE/P-502/20, CRF Project C5031-22GF, CRF 8730064, and GRF Projects 15303521 and 11310522) and City University of Hong Kong (Project Nos. 9380131 and SRG-Fd 7005867); U.L. acknowledges financial support from the metamaterials consortium of the Israeli innovation authority. Section 3: This work was supported by Singapore National Research Foundation (Grant No. NRF-CRP23-2019-0006); Singapore Ministry of Education (Grant No. MOE2016-T3-1-006) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council UK (Grant No. EP/T02643X/1). Section 4: A.A. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation and Army Research Laboratory. A.F. acknowledges support from the Army Research Office. Section 5: This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (U.S.A.) Grant ECCS-1920840 (to D.C), the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (CE2001000108; to K.B.C.), the USA AFOSR Grant FA9550-20-1-0124 (to A.V.K.), and the A*STAR MTC Programmatic Grant M21J9b0085, National Research Funding (NRF) Singapore NRF-CRP20-2017-0001 and NRF-NRFI06-2020-0005 (to W.H. and J.K.W.Y.). Section 6: P.G. acknowledges financial support by the French National Research Agency ANR Project DILEMMA (ANR-20-CE09-0027) and the French National Research Agency ANR Project Meta-On-Demand (ANR-20-CE24-0013). Section 7: J.A.F. acknowledges support from the Office of Naval Research under Award Number N00014-16-1-2630 and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award FA9550-18-1-0070. Section 8 The research is supported by DARPA (Grant No: W31P4Q21C0043) and NSF (Grant Nos. 2120774 and 2127235). Section 9: N.E. and A.A. acknowledge partial support from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Grants FA9550-17-1-0002 and FA9550-21-1-0312. A.P. acknowledges support from the Dutch research Counsel (NWO). Section 10: H.A.A. and P.T. acknowledge support by the Meta-Imaging MURI Grant #FA9550-21-1-0312 and Grant #FA9550-18-1-0354 from Air Force Office of Scientific Research; R.P.D. would like to acknowledge the support by the AME Programmatic Grant No. A18A7b0058 (Singapore); P.T. acknowledges support from Meta Platforms, Inc., through the Ph.D. Fellowship program #C-834952. Section 11: S.T.H. acknowledges support from AME Young Individual Research Grant (YIRG, Grant No. A2084c0177) and MTC Programmatic Fund on Nanoantenna Light Emitting Devices (Grant No. M21J9b0085). A.I.B. thanks MICINN for the Ramon y Cajal Fellowship (Grant No. RYC2021-030880-I). I.S. and A.I.B. acknowledge financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) through the International Research Training Group (IRTG) 2675 “Meta-ACTIVE”, Project Number 437527638. Work of A.P. is part of the research program of NWO and has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program (Grant Agreement No. 101019932), J.A.S. acknowledges support from the Office of Naval Research (Grant # N00014−22−1−2337). Section 12: G.G. acknowledges funding from PICT 2019-01886, PIP 112 202001 01465, and UBACyT Proyecto 20020190200296BA. Y.K. thanks the Australian Research Council (Grant Nos. DP200101168 and DP210101292) and the International Technology Center Indo-Pacific (ITC IPAC) via Army Research Office (contract FA520923C0023).Section 13: S.P., A.S., and V.M.S. thank the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science for support through the Quantum Science Center (QSC), a National Quantum Information Science Research Center, the National Science Foundation (NSF) for support via Grant 2015025-ECCS, and Purdue’s Elmore ECE Emerging Frontiers Center “The Crossroads of Quantum and AI”. S.F.Y. thanks the National Science Foundation (NSF) for support via the following grants: CUA PFC Award and PHY-2207972, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) for support via FA9550-19-1-0233. Section 14: Our work on these topics has been supported by the Simons Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Section 15: The authors acknowledge support by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under Award DE-SC0017717 (TCO materials growth and characterization) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award FA9550-20-1-0124 (transition metal nitrides studies). Section 16: J.R. acknowledges funding supports from POSCO-POSTECH-RIST Convergence Research Center program funded by POSCO, and the National Research Foundation (NRF) Grant (NRF-2022M3C1A3081312) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT of the Korean government. J.K. acknowledges the POSTECH Alchemist fellowship. D.K.O. acknowledges the Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo fellowship.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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