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In this work, we demonstrate three ultra-compact integrated-photonics devices, which are designed via a machine-learning algorithm coupled with finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) modeling. Through digitizing the design domain into "binary…

Reversible logic allows low power dissipating circuit design and founds its application in cryptography, digital signal processing, quantum and optical information processing. This paper presents a novel quantum cost efficient reversible…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2012-05-04 Md. Saiful Islam , Mohd. Zulfiquar Hafiz , Zerina Begum

Plasmonic logic circuits combine ultrafast operation with nanoscale integration, making them a strong candidate for next-generation optical computing. Realizing this potential, however, requires overcoming practical challenges such as bulky…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-07 Komal Gupta , Anand Hegde , Chen-Bin Huang

This paper presents a novel design concept for spintronic nanoelectronics that emphasizes a seamless integration of spin-based memory and logic circuits. The building blocks are magneto-logic gates based on a hybrid graphene/ferromagnet…

Optical computing uses photons as information carriers, opening up the possibility for ultrahigh-speed and ultrawide-band information processing. Integrated all-optical logic devices are indispensible core components of optical computing…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-19 Cuicui Lu , Xiaoyong Hu , Hong Yang , Qihuang Gong

Plasmonic waveguides based on 2D materials, which enable the formations of guided modes confined around few-layered material, are promising plasmonic platforms for the miniaturization of photonic devices. Nonetheless, such waveguides…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-16 Po-Han Chang , Charles Lin , Amr S. Helmy

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

Existing fluidic soft logic gates for the control of soft robots either rely on extensive manual fabrication processes or expensive printing techniques. In our work, we explore Fused Deposition Modeling for creating fully 3D printed fluidic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Savita V. Kendre , Lehong Wang , Ethan Wilke , Nicholas Pacheco , Loris Fichera , Markus P. Nemitz

Metasurface-generated holography has emerged as a promising route for fully reproducing vivid scenes by manipulating the optical properties of light using ultra-compact devices. However, achieving multiple holographic images using a single…

Recent advances in photonic inverse design have demonstrated the ability to automatically synthesize compact, high-performance photonic components that surpass conventional, hand-designed structures, offering a promising path toward…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-18 Hongjian Zhou , Haoyu Yang , Nicholas Gangi , Tianle Xu , Rena Huang , Jiaqi Gu

All-optical integrated circuits for computing and information processing have been pursued for decades as a potential strategy to overcome the speed limitations intrinsic to electronics. However feasible on-chip integrated logic units and…

Optics · Physics 2012-10-24 Chen Wang , Zhi-Yuan Li

Integrated optical devices are becoming a common tool in modern optical science and engineering. This devices should be designed to allow for precise control and manipulation of light. The femtosecond laser written (FSLW) photonic chips…

The versatile control of graphene's plasmonic modes via an external gate-voltage inspires us to design efficient electro-optical graphene plasmonic logic gates at the midinfrared wavelengths. We show that these devices are superior to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-08 Kelvin J. A. Ooi , Hong Son Chu , Ping Bai , Lay Kee Ang

We report on the electronic transport properties of multiple-gate devices fabricated from undoped silicon nanowires. Understanding and control of the relevant transport mechanisms was achieved by means of local electrostatic gating and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-08 Massimo Mongillo , Panayotis Spathis , Georgios Katsaros , Pascal Gentile , Silvano De Franceschi

In this article, we report, for the first time, broadband multifunctional metasurfaces with more than four distinct functionalities. The constituent meta-atoms combine two different phase change materials, $\mathrm{VO_2}$ and…

With a rapidly growing amount of data generated and processed, a search for more efficient components and architectures such as neuromorphic computing that are able to perform a more and more complex operations in more efficient way…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-29 Jacek Gosciniak

Traditional robotic manipulator design methods require extensive, time-consuming, and manual trial and error to produce a viable design. During this process, engineers often spend their time redesigning or reshaping components as they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Lara Zlokapa , Yiyue Luo , Jie Xu , Michael Foshey , Kui Wu , Pulkit Agrawal , Wojciech Matusik

Integrated micro-nanochannel networks in fluidic devices are desirable in a number of applications ranging from self-healing/cooling materials to bioengineering. The conventional micro-manufacturing techniques are capable of either…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-10 Prasoon Kumar , Prasanna S Gandhi , Mainak Majumder

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

A computationally-fast inverse design method for nanophotonic structures is presented. The method is based on two complementary convex optimization problems which modify the dielectric structure and resonant field respectively. The design…

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