Emergent scattering regimes in disordered metasurfaces near critical packing
M. Chen, A. Agreda, T. Wu, F. Carcenac, K. Vynck, P. Lalanne · 2025
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Description
Chen and co-authors present a 2025 study of disordered metasurfaces at the brink where their parts start to fuse. Such sheets, films of tiny shapes, steer light by their layout. Past work used lone shapes or half-melted films. At the brink, called critical packing, a good share of shapes touch and merge. The team made such sheets and watched the scattered light flip its pattern at the brink.
A wave-mode census ties the flip to a jump in the states light can take. Both the mirror beam and the spray change, unlike in plain metal films. The spray can shift color or turn white by design. Glare-cut screens are one use in view. The brink itself becomes a design dial.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | M. Chen, A. Agreda, T. Wu, F. Carcenac, K. Vynck, P. Lalanne |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 122 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |