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  • Metamaterials and Nanophotonics
  • Electromagnetic Wave Manipulation
  • Advanced Structural Engineering

Background:

  • Reconfigurable multifunctional devices are crucial for applications like adaptive radar and smart stealth.
  • Kirigami technique offers versatile structural transformations for controlling electromagnetic waves.
  • Existing reconfigurable metamaterials face limitations in abilities, tuning range, and cost.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a kirigami-inspired sparse meta-architecture for adaptive invisibility.
  • To achieve independent control over frequency, bandwidth, and amplitude of electromagnetic waves.
  • To provide a cost-effective and versatile solution for reconfigurable metamaterials.

Main Methods:

  • Design and fabrication of a kirigami-inspired sparse meta-architecture with 1.5% structural density.
  • Utilizing structural reconstruction based on the principle of dipolar management.
  • Demonstration using three different enantiomers (A, B, and C) with varying folding angles (β).

Main Results:

  • Achieved adaptive invisibility with independent control of frequency, bandwidth, and amplitude.
  • Demonstrated abundant electromagnetic functions and a wide tuning range.
  • The kirigami approach circumvents limitations of existing reconfigurable metamaterials.

Conclusions:

  • The kirigami-inspired meta-architecture offers a new pathway for multifunctional smart devices.
  • This strategy overcomes challenges associated with current reconfigurable metamaterials.
  • Enables on-demand manipulation of multiple electromagnetic wave degrees of freedom.