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OPTICAL NANOSTRUCTURES

Metasurfaces provide the extra bling

Nature Materials volume 21, pages 994–995 (2022)Cite this article

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Structuring surfaces coated with nanoparticles in the subwavelength range allows almost complete control over the optical appearance of an object.

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Fig. 1: Rendered images of a macroscopic spherical probe covered by metasurfaces.

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