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Dielectric phase gradient metasurfaces have emerged as promising candidates to shrink bulky optical elements to subwavelength thickness scale based on dielectric meta-atoms. These meta-atoms strongly interact with light, thus offering excellent phase manipulation of incident light. However, to fulfill 2π phase control using meta-atoms, the metasurface thickness, to date, is limited to the order of 10 nm. Here, we present the thickness scaling down of phase gradient metasurfaces to <λ/20 by using excitonic van der Waals metasurfaces. High-refractive-index enabled by exciton resonances and symmetry-breaking nanostructures in the patterned layered tungsten disulfide (WS) corporately enable quasibound states in the continuum in WS metasurfaces, which consequently yield complete phase regulation of 2π with the thickness down to 35 nm. To illustrate the concept, we have experimentally demonstrated beam steering, focusing, and holographic display using WS metasurfaces. We envision our results unveiling new venues for ultimate thin phase gradient metasurfaces.
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