metasurface

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English

Etymology

meta- +‎ surface

Noun

metasurface (plural metasurfaces)

  1. (physics) The surface of a metamaterial.
    • 2015, Osman Balci, Ertugrul Karademir, Semih Cakmakyapan, Nurbek Kakenov, Emre Ozan Polat, Humeyra Caglayan, Ekmel Ozbay, Coskun Kocabas, “Electrically Switchable Metadevices”, in arXiv:
      Furthermore, by integrating individually addressable arrays of adevices, we demonstrated a new class of spatially varying digital metasurfaces where the local dielectric constant can be reconfigured with a bias voltage.
  2. (computer graphics) A generalization of the metaball, not necessarily spherical.