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    In this work, the authors demonstrate a ‘jointly modulated’ amplifying programmable metasurface (APM) for simultaneous wireless information and power transmission (SWIPT). Their technique outperforms existing methods, significantly improving power transmission and adaptability for conveying energy and data across various domains, including wireless implants, 6 G networks, and IoT systems.

    • Xin Wang
    • , Jia Qi Han
    •  & Tie Jun Cui

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    Accelerated electron beams are potentially useful for imaging and different type of light sources. Here the authors demonstrate electron acceleration using metallic laser acceleration with efficiency comparable to that of dielectric laser accelerators.

    • Dingguo Zheng
    • , Siyuan Huang
    •  & Jianqi Li

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    Artificial spin ice systems have been used to simulate a variety of phenomena including phase transitions. Here, the authors expand the scope of applications to encompass non-ergodic dynamics, by reporting real-space imaging of ergodicity transitions in a vortex-frustrated artificial spin ice.

    • Michael Saccone
    • , Francesco Caravelli
    •  & Alan Farhan

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    Further extending the band edge of perovskite approaching the ideal bandgap of single-junction solar cell is essential to improve device efficiency. Here, the authors integrate optical resonances with perovskite solar cells to extend the band edge, achieving EQE-integrated current of 26.0 mA/cm2.

    • Jiangang Feng
    • , Xi Wang
    •  & Yi Hou

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    The researchers report a class of silica-nanoparticle-decorated bacteria-cellulose ultrasonic metasurfaces that feature excellent stability in water and mechanical processability. They demonstrate it as holographic meta-lens and 3D imaging meta-lens.

    • Zong-Lin Li
    • , Kun Chen
    •  & Xue-Feng Zhu

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    The authors present a generation-elimination framework that correlates the spectra from different frequency bands, where the inaccessible spectra are precisely forecasted without consulting structural information. The spectral correlation will accelerate the unification of all metasurface designs and facilitate versatile applications involving cross-wavelength information correlation.

    • Jieting Chen
    • , Chao Qian
    •  & Hongsheng Chen

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    Manipulation of nano-sized extracellular vesicles are of significant interest for disease detection, monitoring, and therapeutics, yet it is still challenging to expedite the process. Here, the authors presented geometry-induced electrohydrodynamic tweezers, which enable fast parallel transport and trapping of single vesicle within seconds.

    • Chuchuan Hong
    •  & Justus C. Ndukaife

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    Nanoresonator is proven to be an excellent platform for molecular detection, yet a set of them is necessary to identify a molecule fingerprint. Here, the authors utilise low quality resonators with large radiative losses, despite its lower quality factor, to identify molecular absorption spectrum between 5 and 10 μm.

    • Laura Paggi
    • , Alice Fabas
    •  & Patrick Bouchon

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    The progress development of multispectral camouflage technologies has been limited to the choice of materials and structural design. Here, authors propose a material-informatics-based inverse design framework to efficiently design multilayer metamaterials with satisfying visible-infrared camouflage performance.

    • Wang Xi
    • , Yun-Jo Lee
    •  & Run Hu

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    The scattering of light by small particles plays a central role in a myriad of fields. Here, the authors demonstrate a super dipole resonance that arises when two resonant modes of a small particle interfere, overcoming a widely accepted limitation to the cross section.

    • Adrià Canós Valero
    • , Hadi K. Shamkhi
    •  & Alexander S. Shalin

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    Smooth topological photonic interfaces lead to less localized boundary modes which improves their guiding characteristics in both spin- and valley Hall metasurfaces. The modes become insensitive to the lattice details, showcasing improved bandgap crossing and longer propagation distances.

    • Anton Vakulenko
    • , Svetlana Kiriushechkina
    •  & Alexander B. Khanikaev

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    Here the authors employ quantum electrodynamics to formulate thermal emission effects in time-modulated media, resulting in innovative thermal emitters. They show that time modulation induces strong field fluctuations in epsilon-near-zero bodies, enabling narrowband emission across the entire range of wavevectors, from near to far-field regimes.

    • J. Enrique Vázquez-Lozano
    •  & Iñigo Liberal

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    The authors present a high quality factor metasurface that enables sensitive and highly-parallelized detection of biomolecules. Amplification-free detection of gene fragments down to femtomolar levels is demonstrated within 5 minutes, for rapid nucleic acid analysis.

    • Jack Hu
    • , Fareeha Safir
    •  & Jennifer A. Dionne

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    A metasurface is used to generate a hybrid grafted perfect vector vortex beam, which can be dynamically controlled with a half waveplate. The beam has spatially variant rates of polarization change due to the involvement of more topological charges.

    • Hammad Ahmed
    • , Muhammad Afnan Ansari
    •  & Xianzhong Chen

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    Artificial spin ices are composed of tiny magnets arranged in a lattice. Despite their simplicity, they exhibit rich dynamic magnetic behaviour. Here, Lendinez et al demonstrate that, like continuous magnetic thin films, artificial spin ices can exhibit non-linear magnon-magnon scattering which, in conjunction with their reconfigurability, offers great potential for tuneable magnon transport.

    • Sergi Lendinez
    • , Mojtaba T. Kaffash
    •  & M. Benjamin Jungfleisch

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    Infrared polarization-sensitive photodetectors are attractive owing to their widespread applications. Here, the authors report a long-wave infrared photodetector with an ultrahigh polarization sensitivity by leveraging the 1D geometry of Tellurium nanoribbon and the finite-size effect of a perfect plasmonic absorber.

    • Mingjin Dai
    • , Chongwu Wang
    •  & Qi Jie Wang

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    Here the authors propose for the first time the concept of supervised-evolving learning (SEL) and a corresponding SEL-driven adaptive focusing (SELAF) system. This metasurface can adaptively realize focusing at any specified position for waves incident from any direction. This work demonstrates unprecedented potential for tasks involving real-time, fast and complex electromagnetic wave manipulation.

    • Huan Lu
    • , Jiwei Zhao
    •  & Hongsheng Chen

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    Optical singularities are typically 1D structures like vortices. This study used metasurfaces to position ten identical point singularities with tight confinement. This could miniaturize optical systems for super-resolution microscopy and dark traps.

    • Soon Wei Daniel Lim
    • , Joon-Suh Park
    •  & Federico Capasso

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    Topological semimetals can host coexisting higher-order topological nodes that may enable unique physical properties. Here, based on these topological principles, authors design and experimentally realise simultaneous massive and massless chiral quasiparticles in a photonic microring lattice.

    • Zihe Gao
    • , Haoqi Zhao
    •  & Liang Feng

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    The authors show computationally optimized, multilayer scattering structures in the mid-infrared for high efficiency imaging. Multispectral and polarization sorting devices are fabricated via two-photon lithography and characterized optically.

    • Gregory Roberts
    • , Conner Ballew
    •  & Andrei Faraon

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    The authors present a metasurface-assisted isotropic DIC microscopy technique. It is based on an original pattern of radial shear interferometry, that converts rectilinear shear into rotationally symmetric radial shear, enabling single-shot isotropic imaging capabilities.

    • Xinwei Wang
    • , Hao Wang
    •  & Xumin Ding

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    Here the authors proposed an approach to realize the antichiral surface states in a time-reversal invariant photonic system. They harnessed a synthetic gauge flux and observed a kz-dependent antichiral surface transport in their 3D metacrystal.

    • Jian-Wei Liu
    • , Fu-Long Shi
    •  & Jian-Wen Dong

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    | Open Access

    Usual methods for optical encryption suffer from a tradeoff between the level of security and the complexity of operation given by multiple optical measurements or digital postprocessing. Here, the authors show a multi-d.o.f. metasurface-based vector optical manipulation protocol enabling secure decryption in real time.

    • Fei Zhang
    • , Yinghui Guo
    •  & Xiangang Luo

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    The authors develop an imaging-based intelligent spectrometer on a plasmonic “rainbow” chip. It can accurately and precisely determine the spectroscopic and polarimetric information of the illumination spectrum using a single image assisted by suitably trained deep learning algorithms.

    • Dylan Tua
    • , Ruiying Liu
    •  & Qiaoqiang Gan

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    The fabrication of freestanding 3D lattice structures with beam diameters less than 100 nm is a considerable challenge. Here, the authors report quasi-BCC nanolattices of gold and copper, featuring beam diameters as low as 34 nm, that demonstrate an exceptionally high capacity for energy absorption.

    • Hongwei Cheng
    • , Xiaoxia Zhu
    •  & Jinglai Duan

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    The authors present a monocular camera equipped with a single-layer metalens for passive single-shot 4D imaging. It can simultaneously perform high-accuracy depth sensing and highfidelity polarization imaging over an extended depth of field.

    • Zicheng Shen
    • , Feng Zhao
    •  & Yuanmu Yang

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    The authors present an intelligent metasurface system that uses a target detection algorithm combined with a depth camera, to automatically detect the position of moving targets and achieve real-time wireless communications. The system can operate for multiple targets in limited ambient light, outdoor and other realistic environments.

    • Weihan Li
    • , Qian Ma
    •  & Tie Jun Cui

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    Pyroelectricity promises viable heat harvesting and sensing. Here, the authors identify transverse polarization ripple in pyroelectrics via heat localization and propagation decoupling and offer competitive power output to solar thermoelectrics.

    • Yi Zhou
    • , Tianpeng Ding
    •  & Ghim Wei Ho

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    The authors present an approach to phase imaging by using the non-local optical response of a guided-moderesonator metasurface. They demonstrate that this metasurface can be added to a conventional microscope to enable quantitative phase contrast imaging.

    • Anqi Ji
    • , Jung-Hwan Song
    •  & Mark L. Brongersma

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    The authors present a single-shot 3D imaging approach utilizing carefully designed point clouds projection based on a metasurface device. They show submillimeter depth accuracy and demonstrate the potential for hand gesture detection.

    • Xiaoli Jing
    • , Ruizhe Zhao
    •  & Lingling Huang

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    The parity-time symmetry has led to exotic phenomena and fruitful applications in optical systems. In this paper, the authors propose a leaky-wave-enabled anti-parity-time design and realize space-wave harnessing.

    • Yumeng Yang
    • , Xinrong Xie
    •  & Fei Gao

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    The realization of Jones matrix with full eight free parameters is particularly challenging. Here, the authors construct spatially varying Jones matrix with eight free parameters by cascading two-layer metasurfaces and use it for new optical functionalities.

    • Yanjun Bao
    • , Fan Nan
    •  & Baojun Li

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    By carefully structuring and patterning a material, it is possible to introduce emergent properties that would otherwise not exist. These metamaterials have allowed the development of a wide variety of new optical properties. Here, Matsubara et al present a magnetic metamaterial, where spin-currents can be directed by tuning the polarization of the incident light.

    • Masakazu Matsubara
    • , Takatsugu Kobayashi
    •  & Takeshi Kato

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    Achieving optical cryptography scheme with both high capacity and security is highly desirable. Here, authors report a Stokes meta-hologram with a hierarchical encryption strategy that allows vector encryptions to produce depth-masked ciphertexts.

    • Xuyue Guo
    • , Peng Li
    •  & Jianlin Zhao

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    The authors demonstrate a label-free superresolution imaging method by using a hyperbolic material as a substrate for tailored light-matter interactions. The hyperbolic material enhanced scattering, combined with dark-field detection, result in 5.5-fold resolution improvement beyond the diffraction limit.

    • Yeon Ui Lee
    • , Shilong Li
    •  & Zhaowei Liu

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    Nanophotonic light sources with programmable emission spectrum are important building blocks for integrated photonics, sensing and optical computing. Here the authors tune the complex laser spectrum of a network laser achieving selective lasing of a single, two or more modes.

    • Dhruv Saxena
    • , Alexis Arnaudon
    •  & Riccardo Sapienza

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    3D depth sensing with structured light enables simultaneous imaging of multiple objects, but has limited field of view and low efficiency. Here, the authors demonstrate 3D imaging with scattered light from a metasurface composed of periodic supercells, covering a 180° field of view with a high-density dot array.

    • Gyeongtae Kim
    • , Yeseul Kim
    •  & Junsuk Rho

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    Known examples of negative refraction in metamaterials do not distinguish between positive and negative angles of incidence. Here, the authors show that it is possible to break this symmetry using an asymmetric unit cell, and demonstrate it using a mechanical metamaterial working at GHz frequencies.

    • Simone Zanotto
    • , Giorgio Biasiol
    •  & Alessandro Pitanti

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