This approach became essential for constructing negative index media, which laid a strong foundation for the burgeoning field of metamaterial photonics. Split-ring resonators as the basic building blocks of metamaterials were first proposed to be made up of metallic inclusions at the microwave frequencies. [9] However, beyond the microwave frequencies, metals show considerable Ohmic loss, which created the need for all-dielectric resonator platform with the promise to offer low-loss meta-optics and photonics. The last few years have witnessed an unprecedented use of dielectrics in optical metamaterials based on high-index dielectric materials that have strongly emerged as an alternative approach to disrupt the lossy metalbased subwavelength photonics. [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] Several interesting phenomena of metamaterials are driven by strong resonances, and their quality (Q) factors become an extremely important parameter that determines the strength of light-matter interaction. The structures with high Q factors offer a new route for strong localization of electromagnetic energy in near fields that allow ultrasensitive sensors and other optical devices. [19][20][21][22][23] Recent trends in this field are based on so-called bound statesThe authors declare no conflict of interest.
Keywordsall-dielectric metasurface, bound states in the continuum, optically active metadevices, terahertz, ultrafast switching