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Angle-invariant scattering in metasurfaces

Yücel, Mustafa  
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Cuesta, Francisco S.  
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Achouri, Karim  
June 26, 2025
Physical Review B

Metasurfaces are efficient and versatile electromagnetic structures that have already enabled the implementation of a wide range of microwave and photonic wave shaping applications. Despite the extensive research into metasurfaces, a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of their angular dispersion remains largely underexplored. Here, we use the generalized sheet transition conditions (GSTCs) to model and analyze the angular dispersive properties of metasurfaces. Based on this theoretical framework, we demonstrate that a metasurface may exhibit either partial or complete co- and cross-polarized transmission and reflection coefficients that are angle-invariant, meaning that their amplitude, phase, or both remain unchanged with varying incidence angles. We show that these angle-independent responses exist only when specific conditions, given in terms of the metasurface effective susceptibilities, are met. Using the GSTCs formalism, we derive several of these conditions and illustrate their scattering properties. Among other findings, this analysis reveals that, contrary to common assumptions, nonlocality (spatial dispersion) does not only increase the angular dispersion of a metasurface, but may also be used to achieve complete angle-invariant scattering. Additionally, this work demonstrates that fully efficient extrinsic chirality is possible with a pseudochiral metasurface in a partially angle-invariant fashion. We expect our work to provide a general strategy for eliminating, or at least reducing, angular-dependent scattering responses of metasurfaces, which may prove instrumental for applications that are highly sensitive to the detrimental effects of angular dispersion.

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DOI
10.1103/q4wc-64kl
Author(s)
Yücel, Mustafa  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Cuesta, Francisco S.  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Achouri, Karim  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025-06-26

Publisher

American Physical Society (APS)

Published in
Physical Review B
Volume

111

Issue

23

Article Number

235448

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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LEAP  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Swiss National Science Foundation

TMSGI2_218392

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July 14, 2025
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