AI is resolving significant challenges in optical metasurface development from individual unit-cell design to complete system-level integration

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1108474

"unit-cell level: surrogate modeling accelerates electromagnetic response prediction, inverse design frameworks explore complex solution spaces, robust design methods improve stability against manufacturing errors... system-level: AI unified differentiable framework integrates structural design physical propagation models, task-specific loss functions... AI shifting metasurface design from staged methods to intelligent, collaborative, system-level optimization... compact/ computational imaging, AR/VR displays, LiDAR"