Evolution of dispersion-engineered metasurfaces: Debye relaxation and folded path concept

Hammad Ahmed; Buxiong Qi; Xianzhong Chen

doi:10.1038/s41377-025-01890-2

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Evolution of dispersion-engineered metasurfaces: Debye relaxation and folded path concept

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- Evolution of dispersion-engineered metasurfaces: Debye relaxation and folded path concept
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 14, Issue 7, Pages: 1777-1778(2025)
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  1.Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK
  2.School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, 730000 Lanzhou, China
- Author bio：
  
  Xianzhong Chen (x.chen@hw.ac.uk)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-025-01890-2
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- Published Online：24 June 2025，
  
  Published：31 July 2025
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Ahmed, H., Qi, B. X. & Chen, X. Z. Evolution of dispersion-engineered metasurfaces: Debye relaxation and folded path concept. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 1777-1778 (2025).
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Ahmed, H., Qi, B. X. & Chen, X. Z. Evolution of dispersion-engineered metasurfaces: Debye relaxation and folded path concept. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 1777-1778 (2025). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-025-01890-2.

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Dispersion engineering is advancing with recent breakthroughs in metasurfaces using the 2nd-order Debye relaxation and the folded-path concept

greatly improving relevant applications such as imaging

beam shaping

and cloaking.

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