Benefiting from prominent performance in various scientific fields, metasurface research has been flourishing over the past decade. Huygens’ metasurface, as an emerging subcategory of metasurface, can theoretically achieve full control of electric field distribution within the subwavelength scale. Driven by its outstanding manipulation capacity, the three-dimensional holography utilizing broadband Huygens’ metasurface is demonstrated in the microwave regime in this paper. For the broadband working properties, two types of equivalent circuit are integrated into the design of Huygens’ meta-atom. Besides, for high image quality, the modified weighted Gerchberg-Saxton (GSW) algorithm is implemented for specific interfacial phase distribution. The proof-of-concept experiments show notable microwave holographic images, with an 86.2% transmittance efficiency, a 62.7% imaging efficiency, and an 88.1 signal-to-noise ratio at 12 GHz. The proposed holography extends the route to broadband microwave applications in security, data storage, and antenna systems.

• Received 1 August 2019
• Revised 10 November 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.014033