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Thermal metamaterials have made significant advancements in the past few decades. However, the concept of thermal metamaterials is primarily rooted in the thermal conduction mechanism, which has consequently restricted their application…

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Getting to grips with the detrimental influence of disordered environments on wave propagation is an interdisciplinary endeavour spanning diverse research areas ranging from telecommunications \cite{basar_wireless_2019} and bio-medical…

Recently, it has been experimentally shown by several other researchers in the physics community that a properly designed periodic corrugation of a metallic opaque screen may significantly enhance the power transmission through a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-07-04 Andrea Alu , Filiberto Bilotti , Nader Engheta , Lucio Vegni

We present a general theory of fractal transformations and show how it leads to a new type of method for filtering and transforming digital images. This work substantially generalizes earlier work on fractal tops. The approach involves…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-02-17 Michael F. Barnsley , Brendan Harding , Konstantin Igudesman

Many properties of photonic structures rely on band topology characterized by the integer invariants that can change during the topological transitions and give rise to the disorder-robust topological edge, corner, or interface states.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Leon Shaposhnikov , Denis Sakhno , Daniel A. Bobylev , Maxim A. Gorlach

Photonic metamaterials are man-made structures composed of tailored micro- or nanostructured metallo-dielectric sub-wavelength building blocks that are densely packed into an effective material. This deceptively simple, yet powerful, truly…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 Costas M. Soukoulis , Martin Wegener

We have developed a heat shield based on a metamaterial engineering approach to shield a region from transient diffusive heat flow. The shield is designed with a multilayered structure to prescribe the appropriate spatial profile for heat…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 Supradeep Narayana , Salvatore Savo , Yuki Sato

A kind of transformation media, which we shall call the "anti-cloak", is proposed to partially defeat the cloaking effect of the invisibility cloak. An object with an outer shell of "anti-cloak" is visible to the outside if it is coated…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-29 Huanyang Chen , Xudong Luo , Hongru Ma , C. T. Chan

The Brewster effect is extended to single-layer metafilms. In contrast to bulk media, the Brewster effect in metafilms can be realized by tailoring the radiation pattern of a distribution of meta-atoms rather than the effective medium…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-25 Yasuhiro Tamayama

3D scatterplots are a well-established plotting technique that can be used to represent data with three or more dimensions. On paper and computer monitors they are essentially two-dimensional projections of the three-dimensional Cartesian…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Philippos Papaphilippou , Lucy Hederman

The aim of this letter is to {present analytical method to} quantitatively address the influence of a focusing illumination on the transmission /reflection properties of a {metasurface illuminated by a finite-size beam}. In fact, most…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-24 Mohamed Boutria , Abdoulaye Ndao , Fadi I. Baida

A rectangular "shifting cloak", which visually shifts the cloaked object for a certain distance from the original place, is proposed. Comparing with the previously proposed similar cloaks, this rectangular shifting cloak has a much simpler…

Optics · Physics 2010-05-31 Jianguo Guan , Wei Li , Zhigang Sun , Wei Wang

Deep networks can usually depend on extracting more structural information to improve denoising results. However, they may ignore correlation between pixels from an image to pursue better denoising performance. Window transformer can use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Chunwei Tian , Menghua Zheng , Chia-Wen Lin , Zhiwu Li , David Zhang

Combining the tools for transforming space-time developed for General Relativity with the capabilities of artificially structured metamaterials, an entirely new means of controlling electromagnetic fields has emerged. Here, we utilize a…

We describe a scalable distributed imaging algorithm framework for next-generation radio telescopes, managing the Fourier transform from apertures to sky (or vice versa) with a focus on minimising memory load, data transfers, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Peter Wortmann , James Kent , Bojan Nikolic

The Z Transform is a mathematical operation in signal processing, which gives a tractable way to solve linear, constant-coefficient difference equations. Based on the classical Z transform and inspired by the thought of sliding DFT, a new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-21 Peng-fei Xu , Yin-jie Jia , Zhi-jian Wang

Emerging wireless IoT applications increasingly venture beyond over-the-air communication, such as deep-tissue networking for implantable sensors, air-water communication for ocean monitoring, and soil sensing. These applications face the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ruichun Ma , Wenjun Hu

Recent advances in nano-fabrication techniques allow for the manufacture of optical metamaterials, bringing their unique and extra-ordinary properties to the visible regime and beyond. However, an analytical description of optical…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Angela Demetriadou , Ortwin Hess

As computers become more ubiquitous, traditional two-dimensional interfaces must be replaced with interfaces based on a three-dimensional metaphor. However, these interfaces must still be as simple and functional as their two-dimensional…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tony Chang , Damon Cook , Ramona Su

Transformation optics aims to identify artificial materials and structures with desired electromagnetic properties by means of pertinent coordinate transformations. In general, such schemes are meant to appropriately tailor the constitutive…