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Large-scale electrical and thermal currents in ordinary metals are well approximated by effective medium theory: global transport properties are governed by the solution to homogenized coupled diffusion equations. In some metals, including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Guillaume Bal , Andrew Lucas , Mitchell Luskin

An idealized electrostatically actuated microelectromechanical system (MEMS) involving an elastic plate with a heterogeneous dielectric material is considered. Starting from the electrostatic and mechanical energies, the governing evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker

We discuss theoretically how electrons confined to two dimensions in a delta-doped heterostructure can arrange themselves in a droplet-like spatial distribution due to disorder and screening effects when their density is low. We apply this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Tripathi , M. P. Kennett

Aiming at the promising superlensing for the medical ultrasonic and detection, the double-negative metamaterials which possess the negative mass density and elastic modulus simultaneously can be acted as the ideal superlens for breaking the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-09 Hao-Wen Dong , Sheng-Dong Zhao , Yue-Sheng Wang , Chuanzeng Zhang

Optical metamaterials have the potential to control the flow of light at will which may lead to spectacular applications as the perfect lens or the cloaking device. Both of these optical elements require invariant effective material…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-09 Thomas Paul , Christoph Menzel , Carsten Rockstuhl , Falk Lederer

Metasurfaces are an enabling technology for complex wave manipulation functions, including in the terahertz frequency range, where they are expected to advance security, imaging, sensing, and communications technology. For operation in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Michael A. Cole , Aristeidis Lamprianidis , Ilya V. Shadrivov , David A. Powell

We present and study theoretically a new design approach for obtaining wide angle, highly efficient, all-dielectric metasurfaces. As a concrete example we focus on optimizing flat beam deflector for both the infra-red and visible spectral…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-05 Victor Egorov , Michal Eitan , Jacob Scheuer

We found that a single negative material has a character of zero-refraction in near field, and point out that the mechanism of a metal superlens to image with the resolution exceeding the diffraction limitation is different from that of a…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yun-Song Zhou , Huai-Yu Wang , Hai Wang

Metalenses are composed of nanostructures for focusing light and have been widely explored in many exciting applications. However, their expanding dimensions pose simulation challenges. We propose a method to simulate metalenses in a timely…

Metamaterials are composed of periodic subwavelength metal/dielectric structures that resonantly couple to the electric and/or magnetic components of the incident electromagnetic fields, exhibiting properties that are not found in nature.…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-29 Hou-Tong Chen , Antoinette J Taylor , Nanfang Yu

We describe a new model for image propagation through open air in the presence of changes in the index of refraction (e.g. due to turbulence) using the theory of optimal transport. We describe the relationship between photon density, or…

In this work, a two-dimensional time-fractional subdiffusion model is developed to investigate the underlying transport phenomena evolving in a binary medium comprised of two sub-domains occupied by homogeneous material. We utilise an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Libo Feng , Ian Turner , Patrick Perre , Kevin Burrage

Design of a conventional zoom lens is always challengeable because it requires not only sophisticated optical design strategy, but also complex and precise mechanical structures for lens adjustment. In this paper, we propose a continuous…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-17 Yuan Cui , Guoxing Zheng , Ming Chen , Yilun Zhang , Yan Yang , Jin Tao , Taotao He , Zile Li

Image retargeting, which resizes images to one with a prescribed aspect ratio by determining an optimal warping map, has gained substantial interest in imaging science. Despite significant advances, existing methods often fail to ensure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Chengyang Liu , Michael K. Ng

Manipulation of acoustic wavefronts by thin and planar devices, known as metasurfaces, has been extensively studied, in view of many important applications. Reflective and refractive metasurfaces are designed using the generalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Ana Diaz-Rubio , Sergei A. Tretyakov

This paper develops a comprehensive theory of optimal transport for signed (real) measures on Rd. Extending the classical Brenier theorem, we consider Jordan decompositions of measures with possibly fractal singular parts. Under suitable…

Created surfaces or meta surfaces, composed of appropriately shaped sub-wavelength structures, namely, meta-atoms, control light at wavelength scales. Historically, meta surfaces have used radiating metallic resonators as wavelength…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-26 A. Jain , P. Moitra , Th. Koschny , J. Valentine , C. M. Soukoulis

Metasurfaces enable a new paradigm of controlling electromagnetic waves by manipulating subwavelength artificial structures within just a fraction of wavelength. Despite the rapid growth, simultaneously achieving low-dimensionality, high…

As the realm of spectral imaging applications extends its reach into the domains of mobile technology and augmented reality, the demands for compact yet high-fidelity systems become increasingly pronounced. Conventional methodologies,…

Birefringent materials or nanostructures that introduce phase differences between two linear polarizations underpin the operation of wave plates for polarization control of light. Here we develop metasurfaces realizing a distinct class of…