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Inverse design is a commonly used methodology for creating devices that manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves by algorithmically modifying device parameters to achieve a desired functionality. Utilizing plasma, a dynamically tunable medium,…

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…

Controlling the flow of broadband electromagnetic energy at the nanoscale remains a critical challenge in optoelectronics. Surface plasmon polaritons (or plasmons) provide subwavelength localization of light, but are affected by significant…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-15 Maxim S. Elizarov , Yuri S. Kivshar , A. Fratalocchi

This paper introduces a new approach for the computation of electromagnetic field derivatives, up to any order, with respect to the material and geometric parameters of a given geometry, in a single Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Kae-An Liu , Hans-Dieter Lang , Costas D. Sarris

The research of metamaterials has achieved enormous success in the manipulation of light in an artificially prescribed manner using delicately designed sub-wavelength structures, so-called meta-atoms. Even though modern numerical methods…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-31 Wei Ma , Feng Cheng , Yihao Xu , Qinlong Wen , Yongmin Liu

A more accurate, stable, finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm is developed for simulating Maxwell's equations with isotropic or anisotropic dielectric materials. This algorithm is in many cases more accurate than previous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Gregory R. Werner , Carl A. Bauer , John R. Cary

Objective: Most deep neural network-based diffusion tensor imaging methods require the diffusion gradients' number and directions in the data to be reconstructed to match those in the training data. This work aims to develop and evaluate a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Zejun Wu , Jiechao Wang , Zunquan Chen , Qinqin Yang , Zhen Xing , Dairong Cao , Jianfeng Bao , Taishan Kang , Jianzhong Lin , Shuhui Cai , Zhong Chen , Congbo Cai

We study an inverse design problem for the linear multiple fragmentation equation arising in particle dynamics. Our objective is to reconstruct an unknown initial size distribution that evolves, under a prescribed fragmentation law, into a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Arijit Das

This paper has presented inversely determining the resonant configuration of the bilateral nanostructures for periodic metallic slits with extraordinary optical transmission performance. The topology optimization approach is utilized to…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-05 Yongbo Deng , Chao Song , Yihui Wu , Zhenyu Liu , Jan G. Korvink

Optical metasurfaces have been heralded as the platform to integrate multiple functionalities in a compact form-factor, potentially replacing bulky components. A central stepping stone towards realizing this promise is the demonstration of…

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of reconstructing a small object from far field measurements. The inverse problem is severally ill-posed because of the diffraction limit and low signal to noise ratio. We propose a novel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Habib Ammari , Matias Ruiz , Sanghyeon Yu , Hai Zhang

The rise of machine learning and additive manufacturing has enabled the design of architected materials with tailored properties that surpass those of natural materials. Inverse design offers a data-efficient alternative to trial-and-error…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Hirak Kansara , Leo Guo , Wei Tan

Magnonic crystals (MCs) are emerging spintronic metamaterials capable of manipulating transmission properties of magnons, the quanta of spin waves. Due to the complex relationship between lattice geometry and magnonic band dispersion, it…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Ryunosuke Nagaoka , Takahiro Yamazaki , Chiharu Mitsumata , Yuma Iwasaki , Masato Kotsugi

Shape-morphing structures possess the ability to change their shapes from one state to another, and therefore, offer great potential for a broad range of applications. A typical paradigm of morphing is transforming from an initial…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Hirak Kansara , Mingchao Liu , Yinfeng He , Wei Tan

In an expansion of a previous study [1], we apply inverse design methods to produce two-dimensional plasma metamaterial devices with realistic plasma elements which incorporate quartz envelopes, collisionality (loss), non-uniform density…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 Jesse A Rodriguez , Mark A. Cappelli

Plasmonic devices, fundamental to modern nanophotonics, exploit resonant interactions between light and free electrons in metals to achieve enhanced light trapping and electromagnetic field confinement. However, modeling their complex,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Emmanuel A. Bamidele

Meta-optics promises compact, high-performance imaging and color routing. However, designing high-performance structures is a high-dimensional optimization problem: mapping a desired optical output back to a physical 3D structure requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chanik Kang , Hyewon Suk , Haejun Chung

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

Shape optimization approaches to inverse design offer low-dimensional, physically-guided parameterizations of structures by representing them as combinations of shape primitives. However, on discretized rectilinear simulation grids,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Sean Hooten , Peng Sun , Liron Gantz , Marco Fiorentino , Raymond G. Beausoleil , Thomas Van Vaerenbergh

Ultrathin meta-optics offer unmatched, multifunctional control of light. Next-generation optical technologies, however, demand unprecedented performance. This will likely require design algorithms surpassing the capability of human…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-06 Shane Colburn , Arka Majumdar