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In this article we propose and numerically implement a mathematical model for the simulation of three-dimensional semiconductor devices characterized by an heterogeneous material structure. The model consists of a system of nonlinearly…

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We create an data-efficient and accurate surrogate model for structure-property linkages of spinodoid metamaterials with only 75 data points -- far fewer than the several thousands used in prior works -- and demonstrate its use in…

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Waveform inversion is concerned with estimating a heterogeneous medium, modeled by variable coefficients of wave equations, using sources that emit probing signals and receivers that record the generated waves. It is an old and intensively…

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In this article we discuss density of products of biharmonic functions vanishing on an arbitrarily small part of the boundary. We prove that one can use three or more such biharmonic functions to construct a dense subset of smooth symmetric…

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Micro-seismic events, naturally occurring within geological formations and quasi-brittle engineered systems, provide a powerful window into the evolving processes of material degradation and failure. Accurate characterization of these…

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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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The ability to design passive structures that perform different operations on different electromagnetic fields is key to many technologies, from beam-steering to optical computing. While many techniques have been developed to optimise…

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The design of metamaterials which support unique optical responses is the basis for most thin-film nanophotonics applications. In practice this inverse design problem can be difficult to solve systematically due to the large design…

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Colloidal self-assembly -- the spontaneous organization of colloids into ordered structures -- has been considered key to produce next-generation materials. However, the present-day staggering variety of colloidal building blocks and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-29 Gabriele Maria Coli , Emanuele Boattini , Laura Filion , Marjolein Dijkstra

Recent advances in meta-optics have enabled diverse functionalities in compact optical devices; however, conventional forward design approaches become inadequate as device complexity and scale grow. Inverse design offers a powerful…

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The structure of amorphous silicon is widely thought of as a fourfold-connected random network, and yet it is defective atoms, with fewer or more than four bonds, that make it particularly interesting. Despite many attempts to explain such…

The structural and electronic properties of amorphous silicon ($a$-Si) are investigated by first-principles calculations based on the density-functional theory (DFT), focusing on the intrinsic structural defects. By simulated melting and…

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Obtaining conductance spectra for a concentration of disordered impurities distributed over a nanoscale device with sensing capabilities is a well-defined problem. However, to do this inversely, i.e., extracting information about the…

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Inverse materials design has proven successful in accelerating novel material discovery. Many inverse materials design methods use unsupervised learning where a latent space is learned to offer a compact description of materials…

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Physics-constrained data-driven computing is an emerging computational paradigm that allows simulation of complex materials directly based on material database and bypass the classical constitutive model construction. However, it remains…

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Localized basis ab initio molecular dynamics simulation within the density functional framework has been used to generate realistic configurations of amorphous silicon carbide (a-SiC). Our approach consists of constructing a set of smart…

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Deep learning (DL) inverse techniques have increased the speed of artificial electromagnetic material (AEM) design and improved the quality of resulting devices. Many DL inverse techniques have succeeded on a number of AEM design tasks, but…

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