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Semiconductor nanopillars for programmable directional lasing emissions

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Mie resonances facilitate an efficient manipulation of light on the subwavelength scale in high-refractive-index metasurfaces. These ultra-thin high-refractive-index nanostructures have been utilized in wave-front engineering devices for amplitude and phase modulation on the subwavelength scale in dielectric metasurfaces with high transmission efficiencies. We seek to establish a guideline for the desired phase modulation of each element in the metasurfaces integrated with light-emitting devices. Numerical simulations of gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanopillar metasurfaces are carried out over the visible and near-infrared spectral ranges. We analyze the scattering properties of the nanopillars of various sizes along with reflection, transmission, absorption, and phase-change spectra of the nanopillar arrays. We study phase-change properties of nanopillars of varied radii along the spectrum and elaborate on the scattering features of the metasurfaces to create a library of phase-change characteristics. The results indicate that the nanostructures respond with strong resonances and the corresponding phase-change features in the visible and near-infrared frequencies. By the variation of the nanopillar dimensions, one can control the light phase change and shift the features along the spectrum.

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We acknowledge support from the UNM Research Allocations Committee, Award RAC2022. The authors declare no conflict of interest. The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA

    Vahid Karimi & Viktoriia E. Babicheva

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Karimi, V., Babicheva, V.E. Semiconductor nanopillars for programmable directional lasing emissions. MRS Advances 6, 234–240 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43580-021-00042-z

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