{"title":"Existence of a fundamental tradeoff between absorptivity and omnidirectionality in metasurfaces","authors":"K. Shastri, F. Monticone","doi":"10.1364/cleo_at.2021.jw1a.98","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Perfect absorptivity coupled with omnidirectionality is a design goal for many absorbers and emitters used in sensing. We report the existence of a fundamental tradeoff between these two quantities in thin metasurface based absorbers.","PeriodicalId":384075,"journal":{"name":"2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1364/cleo_at.2021.jw1a.98","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Abstract
Perfect absorptivity coupled with omnidirectionality is a design goal for many absorbers and emitters used in sensing. We report the existence of a fundamental tradeoff between these two quantities in thin metasurface based absorbers.