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Metasurfaces can be designed to achieve prescribed functionality. Careful meta-atom design and arrangement achieve homogeneous and inhomogeneous layouts that can enable exceptional capabilities to manipulate incident waves. Inherently, the…

We present a general methodology for electromagnetic homogenization and characterization of bianisotropic metasurfaces formed by regular or random arrangements of small arbitrary inclusions at the interface of two different isotropic media.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-03 M. Albooyeh , S. Tretyakov , C. Simovski

Huygens' metasurfaces are electrically thin devices which allow arbitrary field transformations. Beam refraction is among the first demonstrations of realized metasurfaces. As previously shown for extreme-angle refraction, control over only…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Michael Chen , Elena Abdo-Sánchez , Ariel Epstein , George V. Eleftheriades

We demonstrate a multi-fidelity (MF) machine learning ensemble framework for the inverse design of photonic surfaces, trained on a dataset of 11,759 samples that we fabricate using high throughput femtosecond laser processing. The MF…

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

Random media introduce large degrees of freedom in device design and can thus address challenges in manipulating optical waves. Wave shaping with metasurfaces has mainly utilized periodic or quasi-periodic grids, and, the potential of…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-28 Hadiseh Nasari , Matthieu Dupré , Boubacar Kanté

Accurate and efficient 3D mapping of large-scale outdoor environments from LiDAR measurements is a fundamental challenge in robotics, particularly towards ensuring smooth and artifact-free surface reconstructions. Although the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Hrishikesh Viswanath , Md Ashiqur Rahman , Chi Lin , Damon Conover , Aniket Bera

Advanced feedforward control methods enable mechatronic systems to perform varying motion tasks with extreme accuracy and throughput. The aim of this paper is to develop a data-driven feedforward controller that addresses input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 Jilles van Hulst , Maurice Poot , Dragan Kostić , Kai Wa Yan , Jim Portegies , Tom Oomen

Designing functional materials requires a deep search through multidimensional spaces for system parameters that yield desirable material properties. For cases where conventional parameter sweeps or trial-and-error sampling are impractical,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-22 Sanket Kadulkar , Zachary M. Sherman , Venkat Ganesan , Thomas M. Truskett

Actively tunable and reconfigurable wavefront shaping by optical metasurfaces poses a significant technical challenge often requiring unconventional materials engineering and nanofabrication. Most wavefront-shaping metasurfaces can be…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-24 Stephanie C. Malek , Adam C. Overvig , Sajan Shrestha , Nanfang Yu

Metasurfaces, typically realized as arrays of nanopillars, transform electromagnetic (EM) fields depending on their geometry and spatial arrangement. For solving the inverse problem of designing new metasurfaces that transform EM fields in…

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

Metamaterials are artificially engineered structures that manipulate electromagnetic waves, having optical properties absent in natural materials. Recently, machine learning for the inverse design of metamaterials has drawn attention.…

Inverse electromagnetic design has emerged as a way of efficiently designing active and passive electromagnetic devices. This maturing strategy involves optimizing the shape or topology of a device in order to improve a figure of merit--a…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-05 Andrew Michaels , Eli Yablonovitch

We introduce a conceptual framework for a lensless imaging system which employs an active metasurface as a high-frequency, continuously tunable amplitude and phase modulation aperture, coupled to a discrete single-pixel detector. Using an…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-14 Julie Belleville , Prachi Thureja , Harry A. Atwater

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,…

Nanostructures with one-dimensional periodicity, such as multilayered structures, are currently in the focus of active research in the context of hyperbolic metamaterials and photonic topological structures. An efficient way to describe the…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-26 Maxim A. Gorlach , Mikhail Lapine

A rigorous mathematical model and an efficient computational method are proposed to solving the inverse elastic surface scattering problem which arises from the near-field imaging of periodic structures. We demonstrate how an enhanced…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Huaian Diao , Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

The boundary element method (BEM) enables solving three-dimensional electromagnetic problems using a two-dimensional surface mesh, making it appealing for applications ranging from electrical interconnect analysis to the design of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Shashwat Sharma , Piero Triverio

Electromagnetic environments are becoming increasingly complex and congested, creating a growing challenge for systems that rely on electromagnetic waves for communication, sensing, or imaging, particularly in reverberating environments.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Benjamin W. Frazier , Thomas M. Antonsen , Steven M. Anlage , Edward Ott