A review of anomalous refractive and reflective metasurfaces

Abnormal refraction and reflection refers to the phenomenon in which light does not follow its traditional laws of propagation and instead is subject to refraction and reflection at abnormal angles that satisfy a generalization of Snell’s law.Metasurfaces can realize this phenomenon through appropriate selection of materials and structural design,and they have a wide range of potential applications in the military,communications,scientific,and biomedical fields.This paper summarizes the current state of research on abnormal refractive and reflective metasurfaces and their application scenarios.It discusses types of abnormal refractive and reflective metasurfaces based on their tuning modes(active and passive),their applications in different wavelength bands,and their future development.The technical obstacles that arise with existing metasurface technology are summarized,and prospects for future development and applications of abnormal refractive and reflective metasurfaces are discussed.

Extra-narrowband metallic filters with an ultrathin single-layer metallic grating

Narrowband and high-transmission optical filters are extensively used in color display technology, optical information processing, and high-sensitive sensing. Because of large ohmic losses in metallic nanostructures, metallic filters usually exhibit low transmittances and broad bandwidths. By employing both strong field enhancements in metallic nano-slits and the Wood’s anomaly in a periodic metallic grating, an extra-narrowband and high-transmission metallic filter is numerically predicted in an ultrathin single-layer metallic grating. Simulation results show that the Wood’s anomaly in the ultrathin(thickness H = 60 nm) single-layer metallic grating results in large field enhancements in the substrate and low losses in the metallic grating. As a result, the transmission bandwidth(transmittance T > 60%) at λ = 1200 nm is as small as △λFWHM=1.6 nm, which is smaller than 4% of that in the previous thin dielectric and metallic filters. The corresponding quality factor is as high as Q = λ/△λFWHM= 750, which is 40 times greater than that in the previous reports. Moreover, the thickness of our metallic filter(H = 60 nm) is smaller than 40% of that in the previous reports, and its maximum transmittance can reach up to 80%. In experiments, a narrowband metallic filter with a bandwidth of about △λFWHM = 10 nm, which is smaller than 25% of that in the previous metallic filters, is demonstrated.

CO catalytic oxidation over Pd/CeO2 with different chemical states of Pd

Three Pd/CeO2 catalysts were,respectively,prepared by reduction-deposition and impregnation method(IMP)to investigate the effect of chemical state of Pd on CO oxidation.Two kinds of surface Pd species,namely PdO and Pdδ+(2<δ≤4)in PdxCe1-xO2,were identified in all Pd/CeO2 samples although their relative ratios in each sample were different.Surface PdxCe1-xO2 species were found to be very active for CO oxidation,and it could act as a channel by which active oxygen species can be transferred from CeO2 to Pd species for CO oxidation.Our results reveal that the preparation method can severely influence the chemical state of Pd which can further determine the activity for CO oxidation.