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Subwavelength photonic structures and metamaterials provide revolutionary approaches for controlling light. The inverse design methods proposed for these subwavelength structures are vital to the development of new photonic devices.…

As an increasingly powerful technique in integrated photonics, inverse design uses optimization algorithms to automatically create compact, high-performance photonic structures, often yielding non-intuitive layouts far more compact than…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-03 Junho Park , Taehan Kim , Mohammad Ali , Di Liang

Using light to manipulate small particles is a powerful tool with numerous practical applications across biophysics and nanotechnology. This experimental technique has achieved significant performance gains by employing shaped wavefronts,…

Multi-component self-assembly mixtures offer the possibility of encoding multiple target structures with the same set of interacting components. Selective retrieval of one of the stored structures has been attempted by preparing an initial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-23 Arunkumar Bupathy , Daan Frenkel , Srikanth Sastry

Designing heterogeneous, self-assembling systems is a central challenge in soft matter and biology. We present a framework that uses gradient-based optimization to invert an analytical yield calculation, tuning systems toward target…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-21 Livia A. J. Guttieres , Ryan K. Krueger , Remi Drolet , Michael P. Brenner

Indentation test is used with growing popularity for the characterization of various materials on different scales. Developed methods are combining the test with computer simulation and inverse analyses to assess material parameters…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Vladimir Buljak , Shwetank Pandey

Using a geometric formalism of elasticity theory we develop a systematic theoretical method for controlling and manipulating the mechanical response of slender solids to external loads. We formally express global mechanical properties…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-04 Michal Arieli , Eran Sharon , Michael Moshe

The development of spintronic devices demands the existence of materials with some kind of spin splitting (SS). In this Data Descriptor, we build a database of ab initio calculated SS in 2D materials. More than that, we propose a workflow…

A fundamental challenge in the design of photonic devices, and electromagnetic structures more generally, is the optimization of their overall architecture to achieve a desired response. To this end, topology or shape optimizers based on…

One of the main goals and challenges of materials discovery is to find the best candidates for each interest property or application. Machine learning rises in this context to efficiently optimize this search, exploring the immense…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-04 Gabriel R. Schleder , Bruno Focassio , Adalberto Fazzio

Here, we present a new approach based on manifold learning for knowledge discovery and inverse design with minimal complexity in photonic nanostructures. Our approach builds on studying sub-manifolds of responses of a class of…

Direct design of complex functional materials would revolutionize technologies ranging from printable organs to novel clean energy devices. However, even incremental steps towards designing functional materials have proven challenging. If…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-26 Ella M. King , Chrisy Xiyu Du , Qian-Ze Zhu , Samuel S. Schoenholz , Michael P. Brenner

Deep learning in the context of nano-photonics is mostly discussed in terms of its potential for inverse design of photonic devices or nanostructures. Many of the recent works on machine-learning inverse design are highly specific, and the…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-03 Peter R. Wiecha , Arnaud Arbouet , Christian Girard , Otto L. Muskens

A fundamental challenge in materials design is linking building block attributes to crystal structure. Addressing this challenge is particularly difficult for systems that exhibit emergent order, such as entropy-stabilized colloidal…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-22 Yina Geng , Greg van Anders , Sharon C. Glotzer

The design of correlated materials challenges researchers to combine the maturing, high throughput framework of DFT-based materials design with the rapidly-developing first-principles theory for correlated electron systems. We review the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-05 Ran Adler , Chang-Jong Kang , Chuck-Hou Yee , Gabriel Kotliar

Isotropic pairwise interactions that promote the self assembly of complex particle morphologies have been discovered by inverse design strategies derived from the molecular coarse-graining literature. While such approaches provide an avenue…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-15 Beth A. Lindquist , Ryan B. Jadrich , Michael P. Howard , Thomas M. Truskett

Determining a process-structure-property relationship is the holy grail of materials science, where both computational prediction in the forward direction and materials design in the inverse direction are essential. Problems in materials…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Anh Tran , John A. Mitchell , Laura P. Swiler , Tim Wildey

Relying on either deep models or physical models are two mainstream approaches for solving inverse sample reconstruction problems in programmable illumination computational microscopy. Solutions based on physical models possess strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Ruiqing Sun , Delong Yang , Shaohui Zhang , Qun Hao

In this article, convex optimization is introduced as a promising tool to study Eshelby based inverse micromechanics problems. The focus is on inverse micromechanics using the Eshelby-Mori-Tanaka model given the dielectric constants of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Athindra Pavan , Swaroop Darbha , Bjorn Birgisson

In machine learning and molecular design, there exist two approaches: discriminative and generative. In the discriminative approach dubbed forward design, the goal is to map a set of features/molecules to their respective electronics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Alain Tchagang , Julio Valdés