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Transmissive focusing meta-surface with nearly 100% efficiency

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Planar lens is one of the most important components of both microwave and optical frequency regimes. However, current available transmissive lenses are limited by their low efficiency, complex configurations and large sizes. Here, we propose a general strategy to design focusing meta-surface by using carefully designed Huygens elements. Each element on the meta-surface can realize very high transmission due to the electric and magnetic currents deduced by electric and magnetic structures, respectively. As proof of the concept, a meta-lens, working at frequency of 10 GHz is designed, fabricated and measured. Our meta-lens consists of 31 × 25 Huygens elements, occupying a total area of 155 × 164.3 mm2. Numerical and experimental results agree well with each other. The measured absolute efficiency of our meta-lens is higher than 86.7% (90.6% for simulation) at the working frequency. Moreover, the bandwidth is about 30.7% (32.5% for simulation). Our finding opens up a new avenue to design high-performance microwave meta-devices working in transmission geometry.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61372034, Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi province No. 2016JM6063. The authors would like to thank the China North Electronic Engineering Research Institute for the fabrication.

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Lin, BC., Wang, GM. & Cai, T. Transmissive focusing meta-surface with nearly 100% efficiency. Appl. Phys. A 123, 630 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-017-1254-1

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