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Hua Cheng¹, Zhaocheng Liu¹, Shuqi Chen¹

¹Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Teda Applied Physics Institute, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China.

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Few-layer metasurfaces offer advanced control over electromagnetic waves, surpassing conventional materials for novel photonics. This research classifies these few-layer metasurfaces, highlighting their growing importance in optical materials.

Keywords:

controllability few-layer metasurfaces functionality plasmonics

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Area of Science:

Metamaterials and Photonics

Background:

Metamaterials enable unprecedented control over electromagnetic waves, surpassing conventional material limitations.
Current single-layer metasurfaces and bulk metamaterials lack sufficient controllability and functionality for emerging technologies.
Combining metasurfaces offers new functionalities, driving research into few-layer metasurfaces.

Purpose of the Study:

To classify few-layer metasurfaces based on their functionalities.
To present a sequential overview of proposed few-layer metasurface designs.
To emphasize the emerging importance of few-layer metasurfaces in optical materials.

Main Methods:

Classification of few-layer metasurfaces by functionality.
Review and sequencing of existing few-layer metasurface proposals.

Main Results:

A systematic classification of few-layer metasurfaces according to their optical functionalities.
A clear presentation of current few-layer metasurface research.

Conclusions:

Few-layer metasurfaces are crucial for advancing photonics and overcoming limitations of current metamaterials.
Further development in few-layer metasurfaces is expected to yield significant innovations in optical materials.
These structures are poised to become integral components in future optical technologies.