Plasmonic metasurfaces with 42.3% transmission efficiency in the visible

Jihua Zhang; Mohamed ElKabbash; Ran Wei; Subhash C. Singh; Billy Lam; Chunlei Guo

doi:10.1038/s41377-019-0164-8

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Plasmonic metasurfaces with 42.3% transmission efficiency in the visible

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- Plasmonic metasurfaces with 42.3% transmission efficiency in the visible
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 8, Issue 4, Pages: 506-518(2019)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
  2.Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics, and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 130033 Changchun, China
- Author bio：
  
  Chunlei Guo (guo@optics.rochester.edu)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-019-0164-8
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- Published：2019，
  
  Published Online：12 June 2019，
  
  Received：26 March 2019，
  
  Revised：22 May 2019，
  
  Accepted：27 May 2019
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Zhang, J. H. et al. Plasmonic metasurfaces with 42.3% transmission efficiency in the visible. Light: Science & Applications, 8, 506-518 (2019).
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Zhang, J. H. et al. Plasmonic metasurfaces with 42.3% transmission efficiency in the visible. Light: Science & Applications, 8, 506-518 (2019). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-019-0164-8.

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Metasurfaces are two-dimensional nanoantenna arrays that can control the propagation of light at will. In particular

plasmonic metasurfaces feature ultrathin thicknesses

ease of fabrication

field confinement beyond the diffraction limit

superior nonlinear properties

and ultrafast performances. However

the technological relevance of plasmonic metasurfaces operating in the transmission mode at optical frequencies is questionable due to their limited efficiency. The state-of-the-art efficiency of geometric plasmonic metasurfaces at visible and near-infrared frequencies

for example

is ≤10%. Here

we report a multipole-interference-based transmission-type geometric plasmonic metasurface with a polarization conversion efficiency that reaches 42.3% at 744 nm

over 400% increase over the state of the art. The efficiency is augmented by breaking the scattering symmetry due to simultaneously approaching the generalized Kerker condition for two orthogonal polarizations. In addition

the design of the metasurface proposed in this study introduces an air gap between the antennas and the surrounding media that confines the field within the gap

which mitigates the crosstalk between meta-atoms and minimizes metallic absorption. The proposed metasurface is broadband

versatile

easy to fabricate

and highly tolerant to fabrication errors. We highlight the technological relevance of our plasmonic metasurface by demonstrating a transmission-type beam deflector and hologram with record efficiencies.

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