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Shape-morphing metamaterials enable adaptive structures capable of complex functional deformations, with applications ranging from reconfigurable structures and soft robotics to medical devices. However, their design remains challenging due…

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Diffusion metamaterials with artificial spatial structures have significant potential in controlling energy and mass transfer. Those static structures may lead to functionality and tunability constraints, impeding the application scope of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Jinrong Liu , Liujun Xu , Jiping Huang

Metamaterial resonant structures made from arrays of superconducting lumped circuit elements can exhibit microwave mode spectra with left-handed dispersion, resulting in a high density of modes in the same frequency range where…

We propose a novel approach for efficient tuning of the transmission characteristics of metamaterials through a continuous adjustment of the lattice structure, and confirm it experimentally in the microwave range. The concept is rather…

Acoustic metamaterials are structures with exotic acoustic properties, having promising applications in acoustic beam steering, focusing, impedance matching, absorption and isolation. Recent work has shown that the efficiency of many…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-08-29 Anton Melnikov , Li Quan , Sebastian Oberst , Andrea Alù , Steffen Marburg , David Powell

Microstructured materials, such as architected metamaterials and phononic crystals, exhibit complex wave propagation phenomena due to their internal structure. While full-scale numerical simulations can capture these effects, they are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Gianluca Rizzi , Angela Madeo

We propose and verify experimentally a new concept for achieving strong nonlinear coupling between the electromagnetic and elastic properties in metamaterials. This coupling is provided through a novel degree of freedom in metamaterial…

Mechanical and phononic metamaterials exhibiting negative elastic moduli, gapped vibrational spectra, or topologically protected modes enable precise control of structural and acoustic functionalities. While much progress has been made in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-25 Henrik Ronellenfitsch , Norbert Stoop , Josephine Yu , Aden Forrow , Jörn Dunkel

Within the paradigm of metamaterials and metasurfaces, electromagnetic properties of composite materials can be engineered by shaping or modulating their constituents, so-called meta-atoms. Synthesis and analysis of complex-shape meta-atoms…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-04 Viktar Asadchy , Sergei Tretyakov

The field of metamaterial research revolves around the idea of creating artificial media that interact with light in a way unknown from naturally occurring materials. This is commonly achieved by creating sub-wavelength lattices of…

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Space-time-varying materials pledge to deliver nonreciprocal dispersion in linear systems by inducing an artificial momentum bias. Although such a paradigm eliminates the need for actual motion of the medium, experimental realization of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 M. A. Attarzadeh , J. Callanan , M. Nouh

The ability to control resonant properties of individual metamolecule in a metamaterial structure will offer an ultimate freedom for dynamically shaping wavefronts of electromagnetic radiation for applications such as variable aberration…

Metamaterials are artificial structures with unusual and superior properties that come from their carefully designed building blocks -- also called meta-atoms. Metamaterials have permeated large swatches of science, including…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-30 André Souto , Jian Zhang , Alejandro M. Aragón , Krassimir Velikov , Corentin Coulais

We propose herein a method of material-structure integrated design for broadband absorption of dielectric metamaterial, which is achieved by combination of genetic algorithm and simulation platform. A multi-layered metamaterial absorber…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Mengyue Peng , Faxiang Qina , Liping Zhou , Huijie Wei , Zihao Zhu , Xiaopeng Shen

To enable new nonlinear responses, metamaterials are created by organizing structural units (meta-atoms) which are typically on the scale of about a hundred nanometers. However, truly altering atomic symmetry and enabling new nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-14 Bumho Kim , Jicheng Jin , Zhi Wang , Li He , Thomas Christensen , Eugene J. Mele , Bo Zhen

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…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-12 Tristan Lawrie , Gregor Tanner , Dimitrios Chronopoulos

Dielectric structures composed of many inclusions that manipulate light in ways the bulk materials cannot are commonly seen in the field of metamaterials. In these structures, each inclusion depends on a set of parameters such as location…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Boaz Blankrot , Clemens Heitzinger

Ongoing effort has been devoted to applying metamaterials to boost the imaging performance of magnetic resonance imaging owing to their unique capacity for electromagnetic field confinement and enhancement. However, there are still major…

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