Additively manufactured metasurfaces and metamaterials: Designs, fabrications, and applications from microwave to photonics

Additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing wholly reinvents the making of metasurfaces/metamaterials and opens new opportunities from microwave to photonics. Conventionally, metasurfaces/metamaterials (engineered to control electromagnetic waves strongly) have been challenging and expensive to fabri...

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Main Authors: Meisam Esfandiari, Jianfeng Zhu, Yang Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2025-04-01
Series:APL Photonics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0241299
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description Additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing wholly reinvents the making of metasurfaces/metamaterials and opens new opportunities from microwave to photonics. Conventionally, metasurfaces/metamaterials (engineered to control electromagnetic waves strongly) have been challenging and expensive to fabricate using traditional manufacturing techniques. However, AM provides an innovative turn in transforming the design and production of such complicated surfaces. It renders flexibility, efficiency, and economic viability to the fabrication process, enabling rapid prototyping and customization. This will, therefore, enable production times to be shorter, reduce material waste, and allow the creation of more complicated and much smaller metasurface structures than hitherto unattainable. Thus, AM drives strong advancements in microwave and photonic, enabling new applications and improved performance in telecommunications, wearable sensors, and imaging systems.
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spelling doaj-art-2ae49c470a16455eae3a3fa3a02f8b702025-08-20T02:11:08ZengAIP Publishing LLCAPL Photonics2378-09672025-04-01104041101041101-2110.1063/5.0241299Additively manufactured metasurfaces and metamaterials: Designs, fabrications, and applications from microwave to photonicsMeisam Esfandiari0Jianfeng Zhu1Yang Yang2School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSchool of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSchool of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaAdditive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing wholly reinvents the making of metasurfaces/metamaterials and opens new opportunities from microwave to photonics. Conventionally, metasurfaces/metamaterials (engineered to control electromagnetic waves strongly) have been challenging and expensive to fabricate using traditional manufacturing techniques. However, AM provides an innovative turn in transforming the design and production of such complicated surfaces. It renders flexibility, efficiency, and economic viability to the fabrication process, enabling rapid prototyping and customization. This will, therefore, enable production times to be shorter, reduce material waste, and allow the creation of more complicated and much smaller metasurface structures than hitherto unattainable. Thus, AM drives strong advancements in microwave and photonic, enabling new applications and improved performance in telecommunications, wearable sensors, and imaging systems.http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0241299
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title Additively manufactured metasurfaces and metamaterials: Designs, fabrications, and applications from microwave to photonics
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title_full_unstemmed Additively manufactured metasurfaces and metamaterials: Designs, fabrications, and applications from microwave to photonics
title_short Additively manufactured metasurfaces and metamaterials: Designs, fabrications, and applications from microwave to photonics
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