Metasurface-Enabled High-Resolution Liquid-Crystal Alignment for Display and Modulator Applications
Jiawei Wang
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
Search for more papers by this authorKe Li
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
Light, nanomaterials, nanotechnologies (L2n), Université de Technologie de Troyes & CNRS ERL 7004, Troyes, 10004 France
Search for more papers by this authorHuilin He
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001 China
Search for more papers by this authorWengfeng Cai
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
Search for more papers by this authorJianxun Liu
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
Search for more papers by this authorZhen Yin
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
Search for more papers by this authorQuanquan Mu
State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033 China
Search for more papers by this authorVincent K. S. Hisao
Department of Applied Materials and Optoelectronic Engineering, National Chi Nan University, NanTou, 54561 Taiwan
Search for more papers by this authorDavy Gérard
Light, nanomaterials, nanotechnologies (L2n), Université de Technologie de Troyes & CNRS ERL 7004, Troyes, 10004 France
Search for more papers by this authorDan Luo
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
Search for more papers by this authorGuixin Li
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
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Yan Jun Liu
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033 China
Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies, Southern University of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Shenzhen, 518055 China
E-mail: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorJiawei Wang
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
Search for more papers by this authorKe Li
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
Light, nanomaterials, nanotechnologies (L2n), Université de Technologie de Troyes & CNRS ERL 7004, Troyes, 10004 France
Search for more papers by this authorHuilin He
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001 China
Search for more papers by this authorWengfeng Cai
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
Search for more papers by this authorJianxun Liu
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
Search for more papers by this authorZhen Yin
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
Search for more papers by this authorQuanquan Mu
State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033 China
Search for more papers by this authorVincent K. S. Hisao
Department of Applied Materials and Optoelectronic Engineering, National Chi Nan University, NanTou, 54561 Taiwan
Search for more papers by this authorDavy Gérard
Light, nanomaterials, nanotechnologies (L2n), Université de Technologie de Troyes & CNRS ERL 7004, Troyes, 10004 France
Search for more papers by this authorDan Luo
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
Search for more papers by this authorGuixin Li
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Yan Jun Liu
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China
State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033 China
Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies, Southern University of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Shenzhen, 518055 China
E-mail: [email protected]
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Optical metasurfaces are 2D flat elements that consist of spatially arranged meta-atoms. By carefully designing the metasurface, it is possible to fully control the properties of light in amplitude, phase, and/or polarization. When merged with liquid crystals (LCs), a metasurface can act as a reconfigurable optical component enabling dynamical control of light. However, many reports ignore the influence of the meta-atom's geometry on the orientation of LCs. Here, it is proposed to synergistically merge LCs and specially designed gold metasurfaces for multiple optical functions. Gold metasurfaces are designed as a template to align the LC molecules in a resolution of ≤2 µm. Meanwhile, the aligned LCs are used to actively control the polarization of the incident light, further achieving active modulation of the plasmonic resonances of gold metasurfaces. The synergistic mergence of LCs and metasurfaces can enable a designed optical device to work simultaneously in both visible and near infrared ranges, which is highly promising for multiple applications simultaneously, such as high-resolution display, modulation, anti-counterfeiting, beam deflection, LiDAR, etc.
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