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Photonic topology optimization is a technique used to find the electric permittivity distribution of a device that optimizes an electromagnetic figure-of-merit. Two common techniques are used: continuous density-based optimizations that…

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We provide a solution method for the polyhedral convex set optimization problem, that is, the problem to minimize a set-valued mapping with polyhedral convex graph with respect to a set ordering relation which is generated by a polyhedral…

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