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Metasurfaces are an emerging technology that may supplant many of the conventional optics found in imaging devices, displays, and precision scientific instruments. Here, we develop a method for designing optical systems composed of multiple…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 Adam S. Backer

De novo crystal generation, a central task in materials discovery, aims to generate crystals that are simultaneously valid, stable, unique, and novel. Existing methods mainly rely on black-box stochastic sampling, providing limited control…

As in many other fields, the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence is reshaping materials discovery by offering new ways to propose crystal structures and, in some cases, even predict desired properties. This review provides a…

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…

Drawing inspiration from the achievements of natural language processing, we adopt self-supervised learning and utilize an equivariant graph neural network to develop a unified platform designed for training generative models capable of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-21 Fangze Liu , Zhantao Chen , Tianyi Liu , Ruyi Song , Yu Lin , Joshua J. Turner , Chunjing Jia

The ability to readily design novel materials with chosen functional properties on-demand represents a next frontier in materials discovery. However, thoroughly and efficiently sampling the entire design space in a computationally tractable…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-08 Victor Fung , Jiaxin Zhang , Guoxiang Hu , P. Ganesh , Bobby G. Sumpter

The synthesis of complex materials through the self-assembly of particles at the nanoscale provides opportunities for the realization of novel material properties. However, the inverse design process to create experimentally feasible…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-01 Carl S. Adorf , James Antonaglia , Julia Dshemuchadse , Sharon C. Glotzer

We propose a method for crystal structure prediction based on a new structure generation algorithm and on-lattice machine learning interatomic potentials. Our algorithm generates the atomic configurations assigning atomic species to sites…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-08 Vadim Sotskov , Alexander V. Shapeev , Evgeny V. Podryabinkin

A memetic framework for optimal inverse design is proposed by combining a local gradient-based procedure and a robust global scheme. The procedure is based on method-of-moments matrices and does not demand full inversion of a system matrix.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Miloslav Capek , Lukas Jelinek , Petr Kadlec , Mats Gustafsson

Inverse design, where we seek to design input variables in order to optimize an underlying objective function, is an important problem that arises across fields such as mechanical engineering to aerospace engineering. Inverse design is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Tailin Wu , Takashi Maruyama , Long Wei , Tao Zhang , Yilun Du , Gianluca Iaccarino , Jure Leskovec

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) stands as a powerful tool in materials science, driving the discovery and design of innovative materials. However, existing CSP methods heavily rely on formation enthalpies derived from density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-16 Chenglong Qin , Jinde Liu , Shiyin Ma , Jiguang Du , Gang Jiang , Liang Zhao

Inverse methods of statistical mechanics have facilitated the discovery of pair potentials that stabilize a wide variety of targeted lattices at zero temperature. However, such methods are complicated by the need to compare, within the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-19 Beth A. Lindquist , Ryan B. Jadrich , Thomas M. Truskett

We have developed an efficient and reliable methodology for crystal structure prediction, merging ab initio total-energy calculations and a specifically devised evolutionary algorithm. This method allows one to predict the most stable…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-18 A. R. Oganov , C. W. Glass

Crystal structure prediction is a long-standing challenge in materials science, with most data-driven methods developed for inorganic systems. This leaves an important gap for organic crystals, which are central to pharmaceuticals,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohammadmahdi Vahediahmar , Matthew A. McDonald , Feng Liu

Inverse-designed Silicon photonic metastructures offer an efficient platform to perform analog computations with electromagnetic waves. However, due to computational difficulties, scaling up these metastructures to handle a large number of…

Complex nanophotonic structures hold the potential to deliver exquisitely tailored optical responses for a range of applications. Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) metasurfaces arranged in supercells, for instance, can be tailored by geometry and…

The discovery of new materials has been the essential force which brings a discontinuous improvement to industrial products' performance. However, the extra-vast combinatorial design space of material structures exceeds human experts'…

Mechanical metamaterial is a synthetic material that can possess extraordinary physical characteristics, such as abnormal elasticity, stiffness, and stability, by carefully designing its internal structure. To make metamaterials contain…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yanyan Yang , Lili Wang , Xiaoya Zhai , Kai Chen , Wenming Wu , Yunkai Zhao , Ligang Liu , Xiao-Ming Fu

Inverse statistical-mechanical methods have recently been employed to design optimized short-ranged radial (isotropic) pair potentials that robustly produce novel targeted classical ground-state many-particle configurations. The target…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-06 G. Zhang , F. H. Stillinger , S. Torquato

The advent of two-dimensional metamaterials in recent years has ushered in a revolutionary means to manipulate the behavior of light on the nanoscale. The effective parameters of these architected materials render unprecedented control over…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-14 Zhaocheng Liu , Dayu Zhu , Sean P. Rodrigues , Kyu-Tae Lee , Wenshan Cai