Novel silicon bipodal cylinders with controlled resonances and their use as beam steering metasurfaces

Abstract Metasurfaces have paved the way for high performance wavefront shaping and beam steering applications. Phase-gradient metasurfaces (PGM) are of high importance owing to the powerful and relatively systematic tool they offer for manipulating electromagnetic wave fronts and achieving various...

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Autores principales: Samar M. Fawzy, Ahmed M. Mahmoud, Yehea I. Ismail, Nageh K. Allam
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b16d03c61a6c4cbb8e742d28e0500d3c2021-12-02T16:32:08ZNovel silicon bipodal cylinders with controlled resonances and their use as beam steering metasurfaces10.1038/s41598-021-93041-x2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/b16d03c61a6c4cbb8e742d28e0500d3c2021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93041-xhttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Metasurfaces have paved the way for high performance wavefront shaping and beam steering applications. Phase-gradient metasurfaces (PGM) are of high importance owing to the powerful and relatively systematic tool they offer for manipulating electromagnetic wave fronts and achieving various functionalities. Herein, we numerically present a novel unit cell known as bipodal cylinders (BPC), made of Silicon (Si) and placed on a Silicon dioxide (SiO2) substrate to be compatible with CMOS fabrication techniques and to avoid field leakage into a high index substrate. Owing to its geometrical structure, the BPC structure provides a promising unit cell for electromagnetic wave manipulation. We show that BPC offers a way to shift the electric dipole mode to a frequency higher than that of the magnetic dipole mode. We investigate the effect of varying different geometrical parameters on the performance of such unit cell. Building on that, a metasurface is then presented that can achieve efficient electromagnetic beam steering with high transmission of 0.84 and steering angle of 15.2°; with very good agreement with the theoretically predicted angle covering the whole phase range from 0 to 2 $$\pi$$ π .Samar M. FawzyAhmed M. MahmoudYehea I. IsmailNageh K. AllamNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2021)
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Samar M. Fawzy
Ahmed M. Mahmoud
Yehea I. Ismail
Nageh K. Allam
Novel silicon bipodal cylinders with controlled resonances and their use as beam steering metasurfaces
description Abstract Metasurfaces have paved the way for high performance wavefront shaping and beam steering applications. Phase-gradient metasurfaces (PGM) are of high importance owing to the powerful and relatively systematic tool they offer for manipulating electromagnetic wave fronts and achieving various functionalities. Herein, we numerically present a novel unit cell known as bipodal cylinders (BPC), made of Silicon (Si) and placed on a Silicon dioxide (SiO2) substrate to be compatible with CMOS fabrication techniques and to avoid field leakage into a high index substrate. Owing to its geometrical structure, the BPC structure provides a promising unit cell for electromagnetic wave manipulation. We show that BPC offers a way to shift the electric dipole mode to a frequency higher than that of the magnetic dipole mode. We investigate the effect of varying different geometrical parameters on the performance of such unit cell. Building on that, a metasurface is then presented that can achieve efficient electromagnetic beam steering with high transmission of 0.84 and steering angle of 15.2°; with very good agreement with the theoretically predicted angle covering the whole phase range from 0 to 2 $$\pi$$ π .
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author Samar M. Fawzy
Ahmed M. Mahmoud
Yehea I. Ismail
Nageh K. Allam
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Ahmed M. Mahmoud
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title Novel silicon bipodal cylinders with controlled resonances and their use as beam steering metasurfaces
title_short Novel silicon bipodal cylinders with controlled resonances and their use as beam steering metasurfaces
title_full Novel silicon bipodal cylinders with controlled resonances and their use as beam steering metasurfaces
title_fullStr Novel silicon bipodal cylinders with controlled resonances and their use as beam steering metasurfaces
title_full_unstemmed Novel silicon bipodal cylinders with controlled resonances and their use as beam steering metasurfaces
title_sort novel silicon bipodal cylinders with controlled resonances and their use as beam steering metasurfaces
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