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Designing microwave absorbers with customized spectrums is an attractive topic in both scientific and engineering communities. However, due to the massive number of design parameters involved, the design process is typically time-consuming…

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Slender magnetic elements provide a versatile platform for programmable shape-morphing under remote magnetic actuation. However, a general and physically interpretable framework for the inverse design of a `magneto-elastica' under…

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Smooth and curved microstructural topologies found in nature - from soap films to trabecular bone - have inspired several mimetic design spaces for architected metamaterials and bio-scaffolds. However, the design approaches so far have been…

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Inverse design of high-resolution and fine-detailed 3D lightweight mechanical structures is notoriously expensive due to the need for vast computational resources and the use of very fine-scaled complex meshes. Furthermore, in designing for…

Gradient-based inverse design in photonics has already achieved remarkable results in designing small-footprint, high-performance optical devices. The adjoint variable method, which allows for the efficient computation of gradients, has…

We present a geometric framework for the inverse design of smart woven fabrics composed of non-uniformly shrinking threads. A sufficiently tight weaving structure imposes strong local criteria on the material deformation and reduces the…

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The classical adjoint-based topology optimization (TO) method, based on the use of a random continuous dielectric function as an adjoint variable distribution, is known to be one of the most efficient optimization methods that enable the…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-01 Kofi Edee , Mauro Antezza , Brahim Guizal

Practical applications of mechanical metamaterials often involve solving inverse problems where the objective is to find the (multiple) microarchitectures that give rise to a given set of properties. The limited resolution of additive…

Motivated by recent advances in the inverse design of electromagnetic materials, we develop two methods for manipulating flexural waves on thin elastic plates. Firstly, we derive a technique for determining plate pinning or mass-loading of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 James R Capers

Narrowband perfect absorbers are interesting for spectrum sensing, molecular detection, and infrared imaging. However, their design remains constrained by intuitive, iterative methods that lack flexibility, while also facing challenges in…

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Nonlinear metamaterials with tailored mechanical properties have applications in engineering, medicine, robotics, and beyond. While modeling their macromechanical behavior is challenging in itself, finding structure parameters that lead to…

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Engineered micro- and nanomechanical resonators with ultra-low dissipation constitute the ideal systems for applications ranging from high-precision sensing such as magnetic resonance force microscopy, to quantum transduction between…

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Inverse design of metasurfaces for specific electromagnetic responses requires generating geometries that satisfy stringent spectral constraints while maintaining manufacturability. Conventional design methodologies rely on iterative…

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We introduce a computationally efficient method for the automation of inverse design in science and engineering. Based on simple least-square regression, the underlying dynamic mode decomposition algorithm can be used to construct a…

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Geophysical inversion attempts to estimate the distribution of physical properties in the Earth's interior from observations collected at or above the surface. Inverse problems are commonly posed as least-squares optimization problems in…

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Functional soft materials, comprising colloidal and molecular building blocks that self-organize into complex structures as a result of their tunable interactions, enable a wide array of technological applications. Inverse methods provide…

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Optical devices lie at the heart of most of the technology we see around us. When one actually wants to make such an optical device, one can predict its optical behavior using computational simulations of Maxwell's equations. If one then…

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