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Heat transport in two-dimensions is fundamentally different from that in three dimensions. As a consequence, the thermal properties of 2D materials are of great interest, both from scientific and application point of view. However, few…

We investigate the effect of anomalous field enhancement in metamaterials where the effective refractive index gradually changes from positive to negative values, i.e. transition metamaterials. We demonstrate that considerable field…

One of the current challenges in nanoscience is tailoring phononic devices, such as thermal regulators and thermal computing. This has long been a rather elusive task because the thermal-switching ratio is not as high as electronic analogs.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-14 Hongyi Ouyang , Yuanqing Gu , Zhibin Gao , Lei Hu , Zhen Zhang , Jie Ren , Baowen Li , Jun Sun , Yan Chen , Xiangdong Ding

Thermal expansion is a problem in many technological applications and its control represents a challenge in materials design. In this Letter, after studying the correlation between thermal expansion, cubic-to-rhombohedral transition and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-13 Andrea Sanson

Materials that behave like machines, e.g. functional materials that are able to change shape in response to external stimuli (Bhattacharya and James, 2005), often do so by exploiting phase transitions. Shape memory materials and the tail…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-13 Matthew P. O'Donnell , Jonathan P. Stacey , Isaac V. Chenchiah , Alberto Pirrera

Anisotropic thermal expansion plays a critical role in the performance and reliability of functional materials, yet its theoretical description remains limited. Here, a computational framework that reduces the calculation of thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-25 Dmitry Vasilyev

In this work, we study the thermo-mechanical behavior of metallic structures designed to significantly change shape in response to thermal stimuli. This behavior is achieved by arranging two metals with different coefficient of thermal…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Semih Taniker , Paolo Celli , Damiano Pasini , Douglas Hofmann , Chiara Daraio

Resistive-wall impedance usually constitutes a significant percentage of the total beamcoupling impedance budget of an accelerator. Reduction techniques often entail high electrical-conductivity coatings. This paper investigates the use of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Alessandro Danisi , Carlo Zannini , Roberto Losito , Alessandro Masi

Thermoelectric metamaterials featuring width modulation through constrictions (constricted geometries) have emerged as a promising approach for improving heat management and thermoelectric performance. Through a combination of theoretical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Xanthippi Zianni

Controlling thermal expansion is an important, not yet resolved, and challenging problem in materials research. A conceptual design is introduced here for the first time, for the use of MOFs as platforms for controlling thermal expansion…

Materials showing electromagnetic properties that are not attainable in naturally occurring media, the so called metamaterials, have been lately, and still are, among the most active fields in optical and materials physics and engineering.…

Designing thermal radiation metamaterials is challenging especially for problems with high degrees of freedom and complex objective. In this letter, we have developed a hybrid materials informatics approach which combines the adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Dezhao Zhu , Jiang Guo , Gang Yu , C. Y. Zhao , Hong Wang , Shenghong Ju

Anisotropic thermal properties are of both fundamental and practical interests, but remain challenging to characterize using conventional methods. In this work, a new metrology based on asymmetric beam time-domain thermoreflectance…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-28 Man Li , Joon Sang Kang , Yongjie Hu

Bi-isotropic and isotropic negative refractive index (NRI) 3D metamaterials made from periodic arrangements of chiral split ring resonators (SRRs) are proposed and demonstrated. An analytical theory for the characterization and design of…

Optics · Physics 2007-12-24 L. Jelinek , R. Marques , F. Mesa , J. D. Baena

Negative index metamaterials (NIMs) give rise to unusual and intriguing properties and phenomena, which may lead to important applications such as superlens, subwavelength cavity and slow light devices. However, the negative refractive…

Optics · Physics 2008-07-30 Shuang Zhang , Yong-Shik Park , Jensen Li , Xinchao Lu , Weili Zhang , Xiang Zhang

Recently, artificially constructed metamaterials have become of considerable interest, as these materials can exhibit electromagnetic characteristics unlike any conventional materials. Artificial magnetism and negative refractive index are…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-09 D. R. Smith , J. B. Pendry , M. C. K. Wiltshire

Thermoelectric devices are pivotal in the energy sector, with enhancing their conversion efficiency being a longstanding focal point. While progress has been made, overcoming the inherent low efficiency and heat management issues remains…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Haohan Tan , Yuqian Zhao , Xinchen Zhou , Jiping Huang

Negative refraction is known to occur in materials that simultaneously possess a negative electric permittivity and magnetic permeability; hence they are termed negative index materials. However, there are no known natural materials that…

We have made measurements of microwave transmission over the 12 - 18 GHz range and through a simple metamaterial exhibiting a negative index of refraction. The metamaterial consisted of an array of wires cladded in dielectric embedded in a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Mohamed Zein Radwan , Graeme Dewar

Rapid progress in additive manufacturing methods has created a new class of ultralight and strong architected metamaterials that resemble periodic truss structures. The mechanical performance of these metamaterials with a very large number…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-09 Angkur Jyoti Dipanka Shaikeea , Huachen Cui , Mark R. O'Masta , Xiaoyu , Zheng , Vikram S. Deshpande