Adaptable Invisibility Management Using Kirigami-Inspired Transformable Metamaterials

• Main Authors: He-Xiu Xu, Mingzhao Wang, Guangwei Hu, Shaojie Wang, Yanzhao Wang, Chaohui Wang, Yixuan Zeng, Jiafang Li, Shuang Zhang, Wei Huang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2021-01-01
• Series: Research
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.34133/2021/9806789

Many real-world applications, including adaptive radar scanning and smart stealth, require reconfigurable multifunctional devices to simultaneously manipulate multiple degrees of freedom of electromagnetic (EM) waves in an on-demand manner. Recently, kirigami technique, affording versatile and unconventional structural transformation, has been introduced to endow metamaterials with the capability of controlling EM waves in a reconfigurable manner. Here, we report for a kirigami-inspired sparse meta-architecture, with structural density of 1.5% in terms of the occupation space, for adaptive invisibility based on independent operations of frequency, bandwidth, and amplitude. Based on the general principle of dipolar management via structural reconstruction of kirigami-inspired meta-architectures, we demonstrate reconfigurable invisibility management with abundant EM functions and a wide tuning range using three enantiomers (A, B, and C) of different geometries characterized by the folding angle β. Our strategy circumvents issues of limited abilities, narrow tuning range, extreme condition, and high cost raised by available reconfigurable metamaterials, providing a new avenue toward multifunctional smart devices.