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In this work, an optimization-based inverse design method is provided for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) metastructured devices. Typically, optimization-based methods use a full-wave solver in conjunction with an optimization routine to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Luke Szymanski , Gurkan Gok , Anthony Grbic

The past decade has witnessed the advances of artificial intelligence with various applications in engineering. Recently, artificial neural network empowered inverse design for metasurfaces has been developed that can design on-demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Changhao Liu , Fan Yang , Maokun Li , Shenheng Xu

Metasurfaces mold the flow of classical light waves by engineering sub-wavelength patterns from dielectric or metallic thin films. We describe and analyze a method in which quantum operator-valued reflectivity can be used to control both…

The rising computational demand of modern workloads has renewed interest in energy-efficient paradigms such as neuromorphic and analog computing. A fundamental operation in these systems is matrix-vector multiplication (MVM), ubiquitous in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Caio Silva , Giuseppe Romano

Modern edge devices increasingly rely on neural networks for intelligent applications. However, conventional digital computing-based edge inference requires substantial memory and energy consumption. In analog radio frequency (RF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Wentao Yu , Vincent W. S. Wong

Recent years have seen a considerable surge of research on developing heuristic approaches to realize analog computing using physical waves. Among these, neuromorphic computing using light waves is envisioned to feature performance metrics…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-18 Cheng-Chia Tsai , Xiaoyan Huang , Zhicheng Wu , Zongfu Yu , Nanfang Yu

Recent advances in meta-optics have enabled diverse functionalities in compact optical devices; however, conventional forward design approaches become inadequate as device complexity and scale grow. Inverse design offers a powerful…

A neuromorphic metasurface embodies mechanical intelligence by realizing physical neural architectures. It exploits guided wave scattering to conduct computations in an analog manner. Through multiple tuned waveguides, the neuromorphic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 M. Mousa , M. Moghaddaszadeh , M. Nouh

Nonlinear waves have played a historical role in laying the foundations of the science of complexity. Recently, they have also allowed the development of a new reservoir computing paradigm: neuromorphic computing by waves. In these systems,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Giulia Marcucci , Piergiorgio Caramazza , Shamit Shrivastava

Designing metamaterials that carry out advanced computations poses a significant challenge. A powerful design strategy splits the problem into two steps: First, encoding the desired functionality in a discrete or tight-binding model, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Sima Zahedi Fard , Paolo Tiso , Parisa Omidvar , Marc Serra-Garcia

We present a computational framework for efficient optimization-based "inverse design" of large-area "metasurfaces" (subwavelength-patterned surfaces) for applications such as multi-wavelength and multi-angle optimizations, and…

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

Metaoptics are thin, planar surfaces consisting of many subwavelength optical resonators that can be designed to simultaneously control the amplitude, phase, and polarization to arbitrarily shape an optical wavefront much in the same manner…

Optical wave-based computing has enabled the realization of real-time information processing in both space and time domains. In the past few years, analog computing has experienced rapid development but mostly for a single function.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-23 Ali Momeni , Kasra Rouhi , Romain Fleury

As we approach the physical limits of CMOS technology, advances in materials science and nanotechnology are making available a variety of unconventional computing substrates that can potentially replace top-down-designed silicon-based…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-05-05 Alireza Goudarzi , Matthew R. Lakin , Darko Stefanovic

Reconfigurable computing refers to the use of processors, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), that can be modified at the hardware level to take on different processing tasks. A reconfigurable computing platform describes the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Darran Nathan , Kelvin Lim Mun Kit , Kelly Choo Hon Min , Philip Wong Jit Chin , Andreas Weisensee

Most of the seismic inversion techniques currently proposed focus on robustness with respect to the background model choice or inaccurate physical modeling assumptions, but are not apt to large-scale 3D applications. On the other hand,…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-04-22 Gabrio Rizzuti , Mathias Louboutin , Rongrong Wang , Felix J. Herrmann

Metasurfaces have become a promising means for manipulating optical wavefronts in flat and high-performance optical devices. Conventional metasurface device design relies on trial-and-error methods to obtain target electromagnetic (EM)…

Metasurfaces (MSs) have been utilized to manipulate different properties of electromagnetic waves. By combining local control over the wave amplitude, phase, and polarization into a single tunable structure, a multi-functional and…

Recent advances in metamaterials and fabrication techniques have revived interest in mechanical computing. Contrary to techniques relying on static deformations of buckling beams or origami-based lattices, the integration of wave scattering…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Ethan Fort , Mohamed Mousa , Mostafa Nouh