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ArticleNanophotonics (Berlin, Germany)2024

Enhancing metasurface fabricability through minimum feature size enforcement.

Pavel Terekhov, Shengyuan Chang, Md Tarek Rahman, Sadman Shafi, Hyun-Ju Ahn, Linghan Zhao, Xingjie Ni

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Article in Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Neural Operator-enabled Topology-informed Evolutionary Strategy for PDE-Constrained Optimization.IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation : a publication of the IEEE Neural Networks Council · 2026
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7 authors.

Pavel TerekhovDepartment of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Shengyuan ChangDepartment of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Md Tarek RahmanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6153-0994
Sadman ShafiDepartment of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6762-1811
Hyun-Ju AhnDepartment of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Linghan ZhaoDepartment of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Xingjie NiDepartment of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7405-5678

Funding

Metasurface-Dressed Nanophotonic Neural Interfaces for Multipoint Concurrent Optogenetic Modulation and Calcium MappingR21EY031853 · NEI · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI NI, XINGJIE · 2020 to 2020
$458k
NEI NIH HHS R21 EY031853
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The metasurfaces have shown great potential for miniaturizing conventional optics while offering extended flexibility. Recently, there has been considerable interest in using algorithms to generate meta-atom shapes for these metasurfaces, as they offer vast design freedom and not biased by the human intuition. However, these complex designs significantly increase the difficulty of fabrication. To address this, we introduce a design process that rigorously enforces the fabricability of both the material-filled (fill) and empty (void) regions in a metasurface design. This process takes into account specific constraints regarding the minimum feature size for each region. Additionally, it corrects any violations of these constraints across the entire device, ensuring only minimal impact on performance. Our method provides a practical way to create metasurface designs that are easy to fabricate, even with complex shapes, hence improving the overall production yield of these advanced meta-optical components.

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fabrication-friendlymetalensmetasurfacenanofabrication

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PMID39055568
PMCPMC11267437

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