Publications related to Seismic metamaterial

In-Sensor Passive Speech Classification with Phononic Metamaterials

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Daniel Moreno Garcia

Mitigating the energy requirements of artificial intelligence requires novel physical substrates for computation. Phononic metamaterials have vanishingly low power dissipation and hence are a prime candidate for green, always-on computers. However, their u ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Ultrabroadband sound control with deep-subwavelength plasmacoustic metalayers

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Hervé Lissek, Stanislav Sergeev

Controlling audible sound requires inherently broadband and subwavelength acoustic solutions, which are to date, crucially missing. This includes current noise absorption methods, such as porous materials or acoustic resonators, which are typically ineffic ...

Nature Research2023

Extreme Spatial Dispersion in Nonlocally Resonant Elastic Metamaterials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Aleksi Antoine Bossart

To date, the vast majority of architected materials have leveraged two physical principles to control wave behavior, namely, Bragg interference and local resonances. Here, we describe a third path: structures that accommodate a finite number of delocalized ...

2023

Microwave Metalens Antennas

Yuanyan Su, Teng Li

Recently, there has been growing interest in the use of metamaterial (MTM)-based lenses, also known as metalenses, as innovative antenna technology. Increasingly widespread applications of metalenses in modern microwave communication and sensing systems ha ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Nonlocally-resonant metamaterials

Aleksi Antoine Bossart

In this thesis, we unveil a third design path to manipulate elastic waves within architected media, distinct from the traditional phononic crystal and locally-resonant metamaterial concepts. The core innovation lies in the concept of nonlocal resonances, d ...

EPFL2023

Plasma-based Electroacoustic Actuator for Broadband Sound Absorption

Stanislav Sergeev

Environmental noise, mostly related to human activities, has an immense impact on public health. The development of noise reduction technologies is paramount in addressing this problem. Because of practical and economic reasons, a compact, broadband, light ...

EPFL2022

Ultra-Small Bent Meta-Waveguide Filters

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Maliheh Khatibi Moghaddam

This paper demonstrates the capability of locally resonant metamaterials (LRMs) for creating compact metallic waveguide E- and H-bends, which are simultaneously working as bandpass filters. For creating these bent meta-filters, we use composite pin-pipe wa ...

IEEE2022

Far field superlensing inside biological media through a nanorod lens using spatiotemporal information

Anja Skrivervik

Far field superlensing of light has generated great attention in optical focusing and imaging applications. The capability of metamaterials to convert evanescent waves to propagative waves has led to numerous proposals in this regard. The common drawback o ...

Nature Research2021

Strong plasmon-exciton coupling in transition metal dichalcogenides and plasmonic nanostructures

Yang Li, Wen Chen

Achieving strong coupling between emitters and cavity photons holds an important position in the light-matter interaction due to its applications such as polariton lasing, all-optical switches, and quantum information processing. However, room-temperature ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Successive training of a generative adversarial network for the design of an optical cloak

Olivier Martin, André-Pierre Blanchard-Dionne

At the nanoscale level, optical properties of materials depend greatly on their shape. Finding the right geometry for a specific property remains a fastidious and long task, even with the help of modelling tools. In this work, we overcome this challenge by ...

2021

Instantaneous radiation from time-varying electric and magnetic dipoles

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa

Radiation from magnetic and electric dipole moments is a key subject in the theory of electrodynamics. Although people treat the problem thoroughly in the context of the frequency domain, the problem is still not well understood in the context of the time ...

2020

Analogue computing with metamaterials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Farzad Zangeneh Nejad

Despite their widespread use for performing advanced computational tasks, digital signal processors suffer from several restrictions, including low speed, high power consumption and complexity, caused by costly analogue-to-digital converters. For this reas ...

2021

Hermitian formulation of multiple scattering induced topological phases in metamaterial crystals

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Nadège Sihame Kaïna

In this article we develop an analog to the SSH model in tight-binding chains of resonators and an innovative Hermitian matrix formulation to describe the topological phases induced by multiple scattering at subwavelength scales in one-dimensional structur ...

2020

Helical structures with switchable and hierarchical chirality

Huijuan Feng

Chirality is present as a trend of research in biological and chemical communities for it has a significant effect on physiological properties and pharmacological effects. Further, manipulating specific morphological chirality recently has emerged as a pro ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Tripod-Loop Metasurfaces for Terahertz-Sensing Applications: A Comparison

Bakhtiyar Orazbayev

The high electric field intensity achieved on the surface of sensors based on metasurfaces (metasensors) makes them an excellent alternative for sensing applications where the volume of the sample to be identified is tiny (for instance, thin-film sensing d ...

MDPI2020

Investigation of femtosecond laser-tuned thermomechanical properties of fused silica

Pieter Vlugter

The thermomechanical properties of materials are among the most important properties for designing precision instruments, in particular for devices seeking high-dimensional stability, invariant temperature-elastic properties or low thermoelastic losses. De ...

EPFL2020

Cloaking property of a plasmonic structure in doubly complementary media and three-sphere inequalities with partial data

Hoài-Minh Nguyên

We investigate cloaking property of negative-index metamaterials in the time-harmonic electromagnetic setting for the so-called doubly complementary media. These are media consisting of negative-index metamaterials in a shell (plasmonic structure) and posi ...

2020

Active acoustic resonators with reconfigurable resonance frequency, absorption, and bandwidth

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Theodoros Koutserimpas

Acoustic resonators play a key role in the development of subwavelength-sized technologies capable of interacting with airborne audible sound, from its emission and absorption to its manipulation and processing. Specifically, artificial acoustic media made ...

American Physical Society (APS)2019

Advanced dispersion engineering of dispersive waves in Si3N4 microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Anton Lukashchuk, Fabien Gremion

We experimentally demonstrate the possibility of dispersive wave tuning via advanced dispersion engineering. We utilize hybridized modes of concentric coupled resonators for precise control of the dispersion profile. (C) 2019 The Author(s) ...

IEEE2019

A Novel Reconfigurable CMOS Compatible Ka Band Bandstop Structure Using Split-Ring Resonators and Vanadium Dioxide (VO2) Phase Change Switches

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andreas Schueler, Anna Krammer, Junrui Zhang, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Riyaz Mohammed Abdul Khadar, Andrei Müller

The article presents the design, fabrication and characterization of a novel complementary metal-oxidesemiconductor (CMOS) compatible reconfigurable Ka band bandstop structure using split ring resonators (SRR) while employing the Vanadium Dioxide (VO2) pha ...

IEEE2019