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Metamaterials can enable peculiar static and dynamic behavior (such as negative effective mass density, dynamical stiffness, and Poisson's ratio) due to their geometry rather than their chemical composition. The geometry of these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-03 Audrey A. Watkins , Austin Eichelberg , Osama R. Bilal

Optical computing has emerged as a promising candidate for real-time and parallel continuous data processing. Motivated by recent progresses in metamaterial-based analog computing [Science 343, 160 (2014)], we theoretically investigate…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Amir Youssefi , Farzad Zangeneh-Nejad , Sajjad AbdollahRamezani , Amin Khavasi

In order to obtain a metasurface structure capable of filtering the light of a specific wavelength in the visible band, traditional method usually traverses the space consisting of possible designs, searching for a potentially satisfying…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Xiao Han , Ziyang Fan , Chao Li , Zeyang Liu , L. Jay Guo

The recent breakthrough in metamaterial-based optical computing devices [Science 343, 160 (2014)] has inspired a quest for similar systems in acoustics, performing mathematical operations on sound waves. So far, acoustic analog computing…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Farzad Zangeneh-Nejad , Romain Fleury

Previous mechanical meta-structures used for mechanical memory storage, computing and information processing are severely constrained by low information density and/or non-robust structural stiffness to stably protect the maintained…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Yanbin Li , Shuangyue Yu , Haitao Qing , Yaoye Hong , Yao Zhao , Fangjie Qi , Hao Su , Jie Yin

In the quest to realize analog signal processing using sub-wavelength metasurfaces, in this paper, we demonstrate the first experimental demonstration of programmable time-modulated metasurface processors based on the key properties of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Hamid Rajabalipanah , Ali Abdolali , Shahid Iqbal , Lei Zhang , Tie Jun Cui

Metasurfaces are subwavelength-structured artificial media that can shape and localize electromagnetic waves in unique ways. The inverse design of these devices is a non-convex optimization problem in a high dimensional space, making global…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Jiaqi Jiang , Jonathan A. Fan

As the explosive growth of visual data increasingly strains the latency and energy limits of conventional electronic computing, optical analog computing has re-emerged as a disruptive paradigm for zero-power, speed-of-light information…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-21 Tingting Liu , Jumin Qiu , Xintong Shi , Qiegen Liu , Shuyuan Xiao

Owing to the data explosion and rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deep neural networks (DNNs), the ever-increasing demand for large-scale matrix-vector multiplication has become one of the major issues in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Minning Zhu , Tzu-Wei Kuo , Chung-Tse Michael Wu

Optical metasurfaces have been enabling reduced footprint and power consumption, as well as faster speeds, in the context of analog computing and image processing. While various image processing and optical computing functionalities have…

By designing tailor-made resonance modes with structured atoms, metamaterials allow us to obtain constitutive parameters outside their limited range from natural or composite materials. Nonetheless, tuning the constitutive parameters relies…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Choonlae Cho , Xinhua Wen , Namkyoo Park , Jensen Li

Metamaterials are a new generation of advanced materials, exhibiting engineered microstructures that enable customized material properties not found in nature. The dynamics of metamaterials are particularly fascinating, promising the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Charles Dorn , Vignesh Kannan , Ute Drechsler , Dennis M. Kochmann

Static metasurfaces have shown to be prominent compact structures for reciprocal and frequency-invariant transformation of electromagnetic waves in space. However, incorporating temporal variation to static metasurfaces would result in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

In-materia reservoir computing (RC) leverages the intrinsic physical responses of functional materials to perform complex computational tasks. Magnetic metamaterials are exciting candidates for RC due to their huge state space, nonlinear…

Machine learning algorithms, and more in particular neural networks, arguably experience a revolution in terms of performance. Currently, the best systems we have for speech recognition, computer vision and similar problems are based on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-07 Michiel Hermans , Michaël Burm , Joni Dambre , Peter Bienstman

In this paper, we realize the concept of analog computing using an array of engineered gradient dielectric meta-reflect-array. The proposed configuration consists of individual subwavelength silicon nanobricks in combination with fused…

Reversibility is a key issue in the interface between computation and physics, and of growing importance as miniaturization progresses towards its physical limits. Most foundational work on reversible computing to date has focussed on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-12-01 Samson Abramsky

Analog computers can be revived as a feasible technology platform for low precision, energy efficient and fast computing. We justify this statement by measuring the performance of a modern analog computer and comparing it with that of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 Sven Köppel , Bernd Ulmann , Lars Heimann , Dirk Killat

Physical neural networks offer a transformative route to edge intelligence, providing superior inference speed and energy efficiency compared to conventional digital architectures. However, realizing scalable, end-to-end, fully analog…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zixin Zhou , Tianxi Jiang , Menglong Yang , Zhihua Feng , Qingbo He , Shiwu Zhang

The advent of memristive devices offers a promising avenue for efficient and scalable analog computing, particularly for linear algebra operations essential in various scientific and engineering applications. This paper investigates the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Jonathan Lin , Frank Barrows , Francesco Caravelli