Electrically tunable transmission of gold binary-grating metasurfaces integrated with liquid crystals

Opt Express. 2016 Jul 25;24(15):16815-21. doi: 10.1364/OE.24.016815.

Abstract

Planar photonics using metasurfaces is of great interest because a metasurface can control the flow of light beyond that attainable with natural materials. The resonance wavelength of a binary-grating metasurface is adjustable by changing the width and thickness of the nanostructure. We propose a novel combination of nematic liquid crystals and a binary-grating metasurface with which the diffraction efficiency can be controlled by adjusting the applied voltage.