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ArticleNature materials2025

Electrochemically mutable soft metasurfaces.

Siddharth Doshi, Anqi Ji, Ali I Mahdi, Scott T Keene, Skyler P Selvin, Philippe Lalanne, Eric A Appel, Nicholas A Melosh, Mark L Brongersma

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Article in Nature materials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Siddharth DoshiGeballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6338-4863
Anqi JiGeballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Ali I MahdiGeballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Scott T KeeneElectrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6635-670X
Skyler P SelvinGeballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-8096-6341
Philippe LalanneLP2N, University of Bordeaux, IOGS, CNRS, Talence, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1979-2290
Eric A AppelDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2301-7126
Nicholas A MeloshDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. nmelosh@stanford.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2601-1379
Mark L BrongersmaGeballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. brongersma@stanford.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1777-8970

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Active optical metasurfaces, capable of dynamically manipulating light in ultrathin form factors, enable novel interfaces between humans and technology. In such interfaces, soft materials bring many advantages based on their flexibility, compliance and large stimulus-driven responses. Here, we create electrochemically mutable, soft metasurfaces that capitalize on the swelling of soft conducting polymers to alter the shape and associated resonant response of metasurface elements. Such geometric tuning overcomes the typical trade-off between achieving substantial tuning and low optical loss that is intrinsic to dynamic metasurfaces relying on index tuning of materials. Using the commercial polymer PEDOT:PSS, we demonstrate dynamic, high-resolution colour tuning and high-diffraction-efficiency (>19%) beam-steering devices that operate at CMOS-compatible voltages (~1.5 V). These results highlight how the deformability of soft materials can enable a class of high-performance metasurfaces that are suitable for body-worn technologies.

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