  Dielectric metasurfaces perform unique photonics effects and serve as the
engine of nowadays light-matter technologies. Here, we suggest theoretically
and demonstrate experimentally the realization of a high transparency effect in
a novel type of all-dielectric metasurface, where each constituting meta-atom
of the lattice presents the so-called transverse Kerker effect. In contrast to
Huygens' metasurfaces, both phase and amplitude of the incoming wave remain
unperturbed at the resonant frequency and, consequently, our metasurface
totally operates in the invisibility regime. We prove experimentally, for the
microwave frequency range, that both phase and amplitude of the transmitted
wave from the metasurface remain almost unaffected. Finally, we demonstrate
both numerically and experimentally and explain theoretically in detail a novel
mechanism to achieve perfect absorption of the incident light enabled by the
resonant response of the dielectric metasurfaces placed in the vicinity of a
conducting substrate. In the subdiffractive limit, we show the aforementioned
effects are mainly determined by the optical response of the constituting
meta-atoms rather than the collective lattice contributions. With the spectrum
scalability, our findings can be incorporated in engineering devices for energy
harvesting, nonlinear phenomena and filters applications.
