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    • Metamaterials and Nanophotonics
    • Electromagnetics and Optics

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    • Metasurfaces offer unique electromagnetic properties.
    • Achieving polarization-independent and angle-independent optical phenomena is challenging.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To demonstrate a bianisotropic metasurface for Brewster transmission.
    • To achieve polarization-independent and azimuth-independent reflectionless operation.

    Main Methods:

    • Rigorous derivation of surface susceptibility tensors using generalized sheet transition conditions.
    • Full-wave simulations of planar microwave metasurfaces.

    Main Results:

    • Bianisotropic metasurfaces enable Brewster (reflectionless) transmission at arbitrary angles for TM and TE polarizations.
    • The metasurfaces provide deeply subwavelength impedance matching for mismatched media.
    • Demonstrated polarization-independent and azimuth-independent operation.

    Conclusions:

    • The generalized Brewster effect is a fundamental advance in optical technology.
    • The proposed metasurfaces can enhance conventional optical components and enable novel devices.