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Metasurfaces are ultrathin, engineered materials composed of nanostructures that manipulate light in ways unattainable by natural materials. Recent advances have leveraged computational optimization, machine learning, and deep learning to…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-08 Hao Li , Andrey Bogdanov

This paper presents the experimental demonstration of a dual-input/dual-output reflective impedance metasurface. The design of the metasurface relies on the Method of Moments and leverages auxiliary surface waves to achieve anomalous…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Jean Louis Keyrouz , Vasileios G. Ataloglou , George V. Eleftheriades

Shape-morphing structures possess the ability to change their shapes from one state to another, and therefore, offer great potential for a broad range of applications. A typical paradigm of morphing is transforming from an initial…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Hirak Kansara , Mingchao Liu , Yinfeng He , Wei Tan

We introduce Spectral Guidance, a framework for controlling diffusion models by leveraging the intrinsic geometry of the generative process. As data is progressively corrupted by noise, only a small number of features remain informative for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Gabriel Moreira , Manuel Marques , João Paulo Costeira , Chenyan Xiong

Recently, the complexity behind manipulations of reflected fields by metasurfaces has been addressed showing that, even in the simplest scenarios, non-local response and excitation of auxiliary evanescent fields are required for perfect…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-04 Ana Diaz-Rubio , Junfei Li , Chen Shen , Steven Cummer , Sergei Tretyakov

Locally resonant elastic metamaterials (LREM) can be designed, by optimizing the geometry of the constituent self-repeating unit cells, to potentially damp out vibration in selected frequency ranges, thus yielding desired bandgaps. However,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Manaswin Oddiraju , Amir Behjat , Mostafa Nouh , Souma Chowdhury

Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are widely employed in particle and nuclear physics experiments. The accuracy of PMT waveform reconstruction directly impacts the detector's spatial and energy resolution. A key challenge arises when multiple…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-06 Kainan Liu , Jingyu Huang , Guihong Huang , Jianyi Luo

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have recently shown remarkable performance in image generation tasks, which are capable of generating highly realistic images. When adopting DPMs for image restoration tasks, the crucial aspect lies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yi Zhang , Xiaoyu Shi , Dasong Li , Xiaogang Wang , Jian Wang , Hongsheng Li

As opposed to metasurfaces, metagratings represent themselves sparse arrangements of scatterers. Established rigorous analytical models allow metagratings to overcome performance of metasurfaces in beam steering applications while handling…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Vladislav Popov , Fabrice Boust , Shah Nawaz Burokur

Metasurfaces are a family of novel wavefront shaping devices with planar profile and subwavelength thickness. Acoustic metasurfaces with ultralow profile yet extraordinary wave manipulating properties would be highly desirable for improving…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Yangbo Xie , Wenqi Wang , Huanyang Chen , Adam Konneker , Bogdan-Ioan Popa , Steven A. Cummer

Inverse design aims to find design parameters $x$ achieving target performance $y^*$. Generative approaches learn bidirectional mappings between designs and labels, enabling diverse solution sampling. However, standard conditional flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Miguel de Campos , Werner Krebs , Hanno Gottschalk

Multishape metamaterials exhibit more than one target shape change, e.g. the same metamaterial can have either a positive or negative Poisson's ratio. So far, multishape metamaterials have mostly been obtained by trial-and-error. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-25 David M. J. Dykstra , Corentin Coulais

Inverse scattering problems are critical in electromagnetic imaging and medical diagnostics but are challenged by their nonlinearity and diverse measurement scenarios. This paper proposes a physics-informed deep contrast source inversion…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Haoran Sun , Daoqi Liu , Hongyu Zhou , Maokun Li , Shenheng Xu , Fan Yang

Precise control of temperature fields at the micro- and nanoscale is essential for emerging applications in nanophotonics, catalysis, and microfluidics, yet remains difficult due to the diffusive nature of heat. While inverse-design…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-20 Gopal Narmada Naidu , Omer Can Karaman , Giulia Tagliabue

Mimicking the perceptual functions of human cutaneous mechanoreceptors, artificial skins or flexible pressure sensors can transduce tactile stimuli to quantitative electrical signals. Conventional methods to design such devices follow a…

Reconfigurable electromagnetic structures (REMSs), such as reconfigurable reflectarrays (RRAs) or reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), hold significant potential to improve the spectral efficiency of wireless communication systems…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Alexander Stutz-Tirri , Georg Schwan , Christoph Studer

In this paper we propose a novel design approach for an ultrathin metasurface energy harvester based on a surrogate model of dipole antenna. A significant advantage of this idea is the reduction of the time of the design process retrieved…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Alireza Ghaneizadeh , Mojtaba Joodaki , Josef Börcsök , Khalil Mafinezhad

We give a general design method for finding the passive, reciprocal surface impedance tensor required to enact any wave transformation. We do this through characterising the surface in terms of a tensorial surface impedance, showing that a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 K. O. Arnold , C. Hooper , J. Smith , N. Clow , A. P. Hibbins , J. R. Sambles , S. A. R. Horsley

Large-area metasurfaces composed of discrete wavelength-scale scatterers present an extremely large number of degrees of freedom to engineer an optical element. These degrees of freedom provide tremendous design flexibility, and a central…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-29 Maksym V. Zhelyeznyakov , Alan Zhan , Arka Majumdar

The simulation of nanophotonic structures relies on electromagnetic solvers, which play a crucial role in understanding their behavior. However, these solvers often come with a significant computational cost, making their application in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Liang Cheng , Prashant Singh , Francesco Ferranti