Our paper on “Suboptimal coding metasurfaces for terahertz diffuse scattering” [1], in collaboration with Tie Jun Cui’s Group (Southeast University), has been published in Scientific Reports.
Coding metasurfaces, composed of only two types of elements arranged according to a binary code, are attracting a steadily increasing interest in many application scenarios. In this study, we apply this concept to attain diffuse scattering at THz frequencies. Building up on previously derived theoretical results, we carry out a suboptimal metasurface design based on a simple, deterministic and computationally inexpensive algorithm that can be applied to arbitrarily large structures. For experimental validation, we fabricate and characterize three prototypes working at 1 THz, which, in accordance with numerical predictions, exhibit significant reductions of the radar cross-section, with reasonably good frequency and angular stability. Besides the radar-signature control, our results may also find potentially interesting applications to diffusive imaging, computational imaging, and (scaled to optical wavelengths) photovoltaics.
@article{IJ131_SREP_8_11908_2018, author = {Moccia, Massimo and Koral, Can and Papari, Gian Paolo and Liu, Shuo and Zhang, Lei and Wu, Rui Yuan and Castaldi, Giuseppe and Cui, Tie Jun and Galdi, Vincenzo and Andreone, Antonello}, title = {Suboptimal coding metasurfaces for terahertz diffuse scattering}, journal = {Scientific Reports}, year = {2018}, volume = {8}, pages = {11908}, month = aug, url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-30375-z}, doi = {10.1038/s41598-018-30375-z}, note = {https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41598-018-30375-z/MediaObjects/41598_2018_30375_MOESM1_ESM.pdf} }