1. Bicontrollable metasurface absorber with nine-pixel meta-atoms
- Author
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Julio Urbina, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Ruth E. Rubio-Noriega, and Mark Clemente-Arenas
- Subjects
Materials science ,Pixel ,business.industry ,Lithium niobate ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Vanadium ,Copper ,Thermal control ,Vanadium oxide ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Thermal ,Optoelectronics ,Specular reflection ,business - Abstract
As the optical characteristics of several materials such as vanadium oxide (VO 2 ) and lithium niobate (LiNbO 3 ) exhibit electrostatic and/or thermal dependences, these materials can be exploited in the design of multicontrollable optical devices. We simulated the visible/near-infrared spectrums of the specular reflectances and absorptances of a bicontrollable metasurface absorber with pixelated meta-atoms. Each meta-atom is a 3 × 3 array of pixels, some patched with VO 2 , some with LiNbO 3 , some with copper, and the remaining unpatched. The VO 2 pixels provide thermal control, the LiNbO 3 pixels electrostatic control.
- Published
- 2021