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Metasurfaces make it practical

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By combining the geometric phase with plasmonic metasurfaces, it is possible to make wide-angle holograms with power efficiency of 80% over a broad range of frequencies.

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Figure 1: Working mechanism of a traditional two-phase hologram.
Figure 2: Description of the holography technology reported by Zhang and colleagues.

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  1. Jacob Scheuer and Yuval Yifat are at the School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel,

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Scheuer, J., Yifat, Y. Metasurfaces make it practical. Nature Nanotech 10, 296–298 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.26

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