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We propose and verify a method for controlling the frequency dependence of the group delay of electromagnetic waves over a broad frequency range using the Brewster effect in single-layer metamaterials with finite thickness, here referred to…
Combinatorial mechanical metamaterials are made of anisotropic, flexible blocks, such that multiple metamaterials may be constructed using a single block type, and the system's response depends on the frustration (or its absence) due to the…
This paper proposes a method for testing the delay lines of Blade asynchronous timing resilience template. It consists of an offline test method, with low area overhead, for measuring the internal propagation delay of the delay lines with…
In this letter, we provide experimental evidence of bandgap tunability with global prestrain in additively-manufactured tensegrity-inspired lattice structures. These lattices are extremely lightweight and designed to exhibit a nonlinear…
A popular absorbing structure, often referred to as Perfect Metamaterial Absorber, comprising metallic periodic pattern over a thin low-loss grounded substrate is studied by resorting to an efficient transmission line model. This approach…
Superconducting metamaterials are a promising resource for quantum information science. In the context of circuit QED, they provide a means to engineer on-chip, novel dispersion relations and a band structure that could ultimately be…
We demonstrate a high-efficiency, free space optical delay line utilizing a nested multipass cell architecture. This design supports extended optical paths with low loss, aided by custom broadband dielectric coating that provides high…
The ability to manipulate two-dimensional (2D) electrons with external electric fields provides a route to synthetic band engineering. By imposing artificially designed and spatially periodic superlattice (SL) potentials, 2D electronic…
In a recent investigation, we studied two-dimensional point-defected photonic bandgap cavities composed of dielectric rods arranged according to various representative periodic and aperiodic lattices, with special emphasis on possible…
A procedure for the determination of the optimal group-delay of a Linearly-Constrained Minimum-Variance (LCMV) beamformer is proposed. Two ways of selecting the optimal delay are recommended: the first is the solution that minimizes the…
In this paper a review of some important impedance-induced instabilities are briefly described for both the longitudinal and transverse planes. The main tools used nowadays to predict these instabilities and some considerations about…
In this paper, we present the design and experimental validation of a labyrinthine metamaterial for vibro-acoustic applications. Based on a 2D unit cell, different designs of finite-size metamaterial specimens in a sandwich configuration…
In overlay networks, both local and long-distance links appear as a single hop to a routing protocol. Traditional routing metrics (based on hop count or packet loss) fail to take the differences between such links into account. In this…
We demonstrate that a rainbow-based metasurface, created by a graded array of resonant rods attached to an elastic beam, operates as a mechanical delay-line by slowing down surface elastic waves to take advantage of wave interaction with…
In this work a possible realizations of a uniaxial variant of left-handed material (LHM) at microwaves is considered. The meta-material has some features of the known structure studied by the group of D. Smith in 2001, however in the…
Since the turn of the century, metamaterials have gained a large amount of attention due to their potential for possessing highly nontrivial and exotic properties such as cloaking or perfect lensing. There has been a great push to create…
The ability to tune the gaps of direct bandgap materials has tremendous potential for applications in the fields of LEDs and solar cells. However, lack of reproducibility of bandgaps due to quantum confinement observed in experiments on…
With the increasing development of laser accelerators, the electron energy is already beyond GeV and even higher in near future. Conventional beam dump based on ionization or radiation loss mechanism is cumbersome and costly, also has…
This paper presents an experimental framework for inducing and tuning vibration bandgaps in digitally controlled mechatronic metamaterials. A slender-beam structure instrumented with collocated piezoelectric sensor-actuator pairs…
We present a novel propagation medium using a pair of non-identical coupled transmission lines. The medium is referred to as `butterfly' structure and is composed of four coupled transmission lines. These four coupled transmission lines…