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We introduce a computationally efficient method for the automation of inverse design in science and engineering. Based on simple least-square regression, the underlying dynamic mode decomposition algorithm can be used to construct a…

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Inverse design of nanoparticles for desired scattering spectra and dynamic switching between the two opposite scattering anomalies, i.e. superscattering and invisibility, is important in realizing cloaking, sensing and functional devices.…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-07 Jie Luo , Xun Li , Xinyuan Zhang , Jiajie Guo , Wei Liu , Yun Lai , Yaohui Zhan , Min Huang

Optical materials with special optical properties are widely used in a broad span of technologies, from computer displays to solar energy utilization leading to large dataset accumulated from years of extensive materials synthesis and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-26 Rongzhi Dong , Yabo Dan , Xiang Li , Jianjun Hu

Deep learning is a promising, ultra-fast approach for inverse design in nano-optics, but despite fast advancement of the field, the computational cost of dataset generation, as well as of the training procedure itself remains a major…

Designing novel materials that possess desired properties is a central need across many manufacturing industries. Driven by that industrial need, a variety of algorithms and tools have been developed that combine AI (machine learning and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Seiji Takeda , Toshiyuki Hama , Hsiang-Han Hsu , Toshiyuki Yamane , Koji Masuda , Victoria A. Piunova , Dmitry Zubarev , Jed Pitera , Daniel P. Sanders , Daiju Nakano

We introduce a computational method to optimize target physical properties in the full configuration space regarding atomic composition, chemical stoichiometry, and crystal structure. The approach combines the universal potential of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-03 Guanjian Cheng , Xin-Gao Gong , Wan-Jian Yin

The accelerated inverse design of complex material properties - such as identifying a material with a given stress-strain response over a nonlinear deformation path - holds great potential for addressing challenges from soft robotics to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jan-Hendrik Bastek , Dennis M. Kochmann

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

Materials discovery is fundamental to advance next-generation technologies as well as for sustainable and circular economy. Beyond computational screening, generative models are efficient at finding materials with desired properties, via…

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

Inverse patchy colloids are nano- to micro-scale particles with a surface divided into differently charged regions. This class of colloids combines directional, selective bonding with a relatively simple particle design: owing to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-22 Emanuela Bianchi , Peter D. J. van Oostrum , Christos N. Likos , Gerhard Kahl

The goal of inverse design in distributed circuits is to generate near-optimal designs that meet a desirable transfer function specification. Existing design exploration methods use some combination of strategies involving artificial grids,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Jiayu Li , Masood Mortazavi , Ning Yan , Yihong Ma , Reza Zafarani

Materials design is an important component of modern science and technology, yet traditional approaches rely heavily on trial-and-error and can be inefficient. Computational techniques, enhanced by modern artificial intelligence (AI), have…

The inverse problem of designing component interactions to target emergent structure is fundamental to numerous applications in biotechnology, materials science, and statistical physics. Equally important is the inverse problem of designing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-20 Carl P. Goodrich , Ella M. King , Samuel S. Schoenholz , Ekin D. Cubuk , Michael Brenner

Optical devices lie at the heart of most of the technology we see around us. When one actually wants to make such an optical device, one can predict its optical behavior using computational simulations of Maxwell's equations. If one then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Joeri Lenaerts , Hannah Pinson , Vincent Ginis

Inverse methods of statistical mechanics are becoming productive tools in the design of materials with specific microstructures or properties. While initial studies have focused on solid-state design targets (e.g, assembly of colloidal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-31 Ryan B. Jadrich , Jonathan A. Bollinger , Beth A. Lindquist , Thomas M. Truskett

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

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

Discovering functional crystalline materials entails navigating an immense combinatorial design space. While recent advances in generative artificial intelligence have enabled the sampling of chemically plausible compositions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hyunsoo Park , Aron Walsh

Endowing materials with physical intelligence holds the key for a progress leap in robotic systems. In spite of the growing success for macroscopic devices, transferring these concepts to the microscale presents several challenges connected…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-29 Steven van Kesteren , Laura Alvarez , Silvia Arrese-Igor , Angel Alegria , Lucio Isa