Machine learning aided design and optimization of thermal metamaterials

C Zhu, EA Bamidele, X Shen, G Zhu, B Li - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has advanced material research that were previously intractable,
for example, the machine learning (ML) has been able to predict some unprecedented …

Recent advances in transformation optics

Y Liu, X Zhang - Nanoscale, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Within the past a few years, transformation optics has emerged as a new research area,
since it provides a general methodology and design tool for manipulating electromagnetic …

Conformal transformation optics

L Xu, H Chen - Nature Photonics, 2015 - nature.com
The field of transformation optics shows that media containing gradients in optical properties
are equivalent to curved geometries of spacetime for the propagation of light. Conformal …

High gain, wide-angle QCTO-enabled modified Luneburg lens antenna with broadband anti-reflective layer

S Biswas, M Mirotznik - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The gradient-index (GRIN) Luneburg lens antenna offers significant benefits, eg high
aperture efficiency, low-power, minimal cost, wide beam scanning angle and broad …

H-plane horn antenna with enhanced directivity using conformal transformation optics

H Eskandari, JL Albadalejo-Lijarcio, O Zetterstrom… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Conformal transformation optics is employed to enhance an H-plane horn's directivity by
designing a graded-index all-dielectric lens. The transformation is applied so that the phase …

Transformation optics: From classic theory and applications to its new branches

F Sun, B Zheng, H Chen, W Jiang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In the modern world, the ability to manipulate and control electromagnetic waves has greatly
changed people's lives. Novel optical and electromagnetic phenomena and devices will …

Enhancing the critical current of a superconducting film in a wide range of magnetic fields with a conformal array of nanoscale holes

YL Wang, ML Latimer, ZL Xiao, R Divan, LE Ocola… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
The maximum current (critical current) a type-II superconductor can transmit without energy
loss is limited by the motion of the quantized magnetic flux penetrating into a …

Transformation inverse design

D Liu, LH Gabrielli, M Lipson, SG Johnson - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We present a new technique for the design of transformation-optics devices based on large-
scale optimization to achieve the optimal effective isotropic dielectric materials within …

[HTML][HTML] Conformally graded metamaterials for elastic wave guidance

C Dorn, DM Kochmann - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Although metamaterials have been widely used for controlling elastic waves through
bandgap engineering, the directed guidance of stress waves in non-periodic structures has …

Elliptical generalized Maxwell fish-eye lens using conformal mapping

H Eskandari, MS Majedi, AR Attari… - New Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A circular graded index lens is conformally transformed to an elliptical shape using a closed-
form transformation. The proposed transformation is then employed to compress a Maxwell …