Recent Advances in Bianisotropic Boundary Conditions: Theory, Capabilities, Realizations, and Applications

Abstract

In recent years, new functionality and unprecedented wavefront control has been enabled by the introduction of bianisotropic metasurfaces. A bianisotropic metasurface is characterized by an electric response, a magnetic response, and an electromagnetic/magnetoelectric response. In general, these metasur-faces consists of an array of metallic or dielectric particles located within a subwavelength thick host medium, and are approximated and modelled as infinitely-thin, idealized sheet boundaries defined along a surface. An appropriate sheet boundary condition which effectively models the tangential field discontinuity due to the array of magnetoelectric inclusions is the Generalized Sheet Transition Condition or GSTC. Several forms of the GSTC appear in literature. Here, we present each interpretation and show how they are related. Synthesis approaches unique to each form are overviewed. By utilizing the GSTC in metasurface design, new possibilities emerge which are not possible with conventional design techniques incorporating only electric or only magnetic responses. Since the metasurfaces are designed using bianisotropic boundary conditions, they must be realized using particles which contain magnetoelectric responses. This review article discusses the design of metasurfaces using the GSTC, and the bianisotropic particles used to realize GSTCs. Further, it discusses new and recent applications that have emerged due to bianisotropy, and future prospects in metasurface design using bianisotropic boundary conditions. The intent is to provide a comprehensive overview of metasurface design involving bianisotropy and for this review article to serve as a starting point for engineers and scientist that wish to introduce bianisotropy into metasurface design.

Submitted to Nanophotonics as an invited review article

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