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metasurface

metasurface noun: the surface of a metamaterial.

Noun

metasurface (plural metasurfaces)

  1. The surface of a metamaterial.
    • 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.2015, Osman Balci, Ertugrul Karademir, Semih Cakmakyapan, Nurbek Kakenov, Emre Ozan Polat, Humeyra Caglayan, Ekmel Ozbay, Coskun Kocabas, “Electrically Switchable Metadevices”, in arXiv
    • Furthermore, we discuss the potential use of our metasurface absorber design in solar thermophotovoltaics by exploiting refractory plasmonic materials.2015, A. K. Azad, W. J. M. Kort-Kamp, M. Sykora, N. R. Weisse-Bernstein, T. S. Luk, A. J. Taylor, D. A. R. Dalvit, H.-T. Chen, “Metasurface Broadband Solar Absorber”, in arXiv
  2. A generalization of the metaball, not necessarily spherical.

Forms of metasurface

pluralmetasurfaces

Origin of metasurface

From meta- + surface.

Questions about metasurface

What does metasurface mean?
Metasurface means the surface of a metamaterial.
What part of speech is metasurface?
Metasurface is a noun.
What is the plural of metasurface?
The plural of metasurface is metasurfaces.

Words near metasurface in the dictionary

  1. metasubstitution
  2. metasubstitutions
  3. metasulphate
  4. metasummaries
  5. metasummary
  6. metasurface
  7. metasurfaces
  8. metaswitzerite
  9. metasynchronous
  10. metasyncrisis
  11. metasyncritic

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