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In the search for improved computational capabilities, conventional microelectronic computers are facing various problems arising from the miniaturization and concentration of active electronics devices (1-2). Therefore, researchers have…

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We develop three inverse elastic scattering schemes for locating multiple small, extended and multiscale rigid bodies, respectively. There are some salient and promising features of the proposed methods. The cores of those schemes are…

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Using the combinatorics of two interpenetrating face centered cubic lattices together with the part of calculus naturally encoded in combinatorial topology, we construct from first principles a lattice model of 3D incompressible…

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Self-folding is an emerging paradigm for the inverse design of three-dimensional structures. While most efforts have concentrated on the shape of the net, our approach introduces a new design dimension-bond specificity between the edges. We…

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Electrides are ionic solids that consist of cationic frameworks and anionic electrons trapped in the voids of lattices. Organic electrides exist in a large abundance, but the thermal instability at room temperature and sensitivity to…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-15 Yunwei Zhang , Hui Wang , Yanchao Wang , Lijun Zhang , Yanming Ma

The development of low-loss reconfigurable integrated optical devices enables further research into technologies including photonic signal processing, analogue quantum computing, and optical neural networks. Here, we introduce digital…

Flat optics foresees a new era of ultra-compact optical devices, where metasurfaces serve as the foundation. Conventional designs of metasurfaces start with a certain structure as the prototype, followed by an extensive parametric sweep to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 Dayu Zhu , Zhaocheng Liu , Lakshmi Raju , Andrew S. Kim , Wenshan Cai

Programmable shape-shifting materials can take different physical forms to achieve multifunctionality in a dynamic and controllable manner. Although morphing a shape from 2D to 3D via programmed inhomogeneous local deformations has been…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-05 Hillel Aharoni , Yu Xia , Xinyue Zhang , Randall D. Kamien , Shu Yang

We consider an inverse problem for the elastic wave of simultaneously reconstructing the impedance and the geometric information of the bounded body that is occupied by a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium from the measured Cauchy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Yao Sun , Yan Chang , Yukun Guo

We report on a Digital Image Correlation-based technique for the detection of in-plane elastic waves propagating in structural lattices. The experimental characterization of wave motion in lattice structures is currently of great interest…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-09-29 Marshall Schaeffer , Giuseppe Trainiti , Massimo Ruzzene

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…

Optics · Physics 2009-12-23 Jesse Lu , Jelena Vuckovic

We developed an inverse design framework enabling automated generation of stable multi-component crystal structures by optimizing the formation energies in the latent space based on reversible crystal graphs with continuous representation.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-21 Teng Long , Yixuan Zhang , Nuno M. Fortunato , Chen Shen , Mian Dai , Hongbin Zhang

We demonstrate that inverse statistical mechanical optimization can be used to discover simple (e.g., short-range, isotropic, and convex-repulsive) pairwise interparticle potentials with three-dimensional diamond or simple cubic lattice…

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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…

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Inverse design can be a useful strategy for discovering interactions that drive particles to spontaneously self-assemble into a desired structure. Here, we extend an inverse design methodology--relative entropy optimization--to determine…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-16 William D. Piñeros , Beth A. Lindquist , Ryan B. Jadrich , Thomas M. Truskett

Recently, a class of mechanical lattices with reconfigurable, zero-stiffness structures has been proposed, called Totimorphic lattices. In this work, we introduce a computational framework that enables continuous reprogramming of a…

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In recent years, wave-based analog computing has been at the center of attention for providing ultra-fast and power-efficient signal processing enabled by wave propagation through artificially engineered structures. Building on these…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Vahid Nikkhah , Mario Junior Mencagli , Nader Engheta

Inverse design in photonics has gathered increasing attention as a powerful approach that goes beyond the intuition-based designs. In this Letter, we present the inverse design and experimental demonstration of compact optical cloaks at…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Mediha Tutgun , Emre Bor , Mirbek Turduev , Hamza Kurt

Optical multilayer thin film structures have been widely used in numerous photonic domains and applications. The key component to enable these applications is the inverse design. Different from other photonic structures such as metasurface…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-27 Taigao Ma , Mingqian Ma , L. Jay Guo