Deep Learning-Assisted Design for High-Q-Value Dielectric Metasurface Structures

• DOI: 10.3390/ma18071554
• Publication Date: 2025-03-31T06:50:16Z
• Authors: Junchan Liao; Zhenxiang Shi; Dihang Dou; Haiou Lu; Kai Ni; Qian Zhou; Xiaohao Wang

Optical sensing technologies play a crucial role in various fields such as biology, medicine, and food safety by measuring changes in material properties, such as the refractive index, light absorption, and scattering. Dielectric metasurfaces, with their subwavelength-scale geometric features and the ability to achieve high-quality-factor (Q-value) resonances through specific meta-atom designs, offer a new avenue for achieving faster and more sensitive material detection. The resonant wavelength, as one of the key indicators in meta-atom design, is usually determined using traditional solving methods such as electromagnetic simulations, which, although capable of providing high-precision prediction results, suffer from slow computational speed and long processing times. To address this issue, this paper proposes a forward prediction network for the amplitude spectrum of dielectric metasurfaces. Test results demonstrated that the mean square error of this network was consistently less than 10−3, and the neural network required less than 1 s, indicating its high-precision prediction capability. Furthermore, we employed transfer learning to apply this network to predict the near-infrared transmission spectra of high-Q-value resonant dielectric metasurfaces, achieving significant effectiveness. This method greatly enhanced the efficiency of metasurface design, and the designed network could serve as a universal backbone model for the forward prediction of spectral responses for other types of dielectric metasurfaces.