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Enabling Wide Bandwidth in Substrate-Integrated Waveguide Slot Antennas by Using Low-Index Metamaterials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Jalaledin Tayebpour, Amir Jafargholi

This paper presents a solution to overcome the inherently limited bandwidth of substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) slot antennas. It is analytically shown that by decreasing the permittivity of a dielectric loaded slot antenna, the resulting bandwidth inc ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

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

All-Dielectric Nanophotonic via Glass Fluid Instabilities

Pierre-Luc Eloi Piveteau

In this thesis work, we propose to exploit an innovative micro/nano-fabrication process, based on controlled fluid instabilities of a thin viscous film of chalcogenide glass. Amorphous selenium and arsenic triselenide were used in this thesis work, and com ...

EPFL2024

Optothermal shaping of lamb waves with square and spiral phase fronts

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Aleksi Antoine Bossart, Janez Rus

We introduce a Lamb-wave medium with tunable propagation velocities, which are controlled by a two-dimensional heating pattern produced by a laser beam. We utilized it to demonstrate that waves in an appropriately designed medium can propagate in the form ...

2024

Emergent nonlinear dynamics in photonic lattices

Aleksandr Tusnin

Since the discovery of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators, significant progress has been made in the understanding of the underlying physical principles from the fundamental side and generation of broadband coherent optical Kerr frequency ...

EPFL2024

Room-Temperature Quantum Optomechanics and Free-Electron Quantum Optics

Guanhao Huang

Quantum optics studies how photons interact with other forms of matter, the understanding of which was crucial for the development of quantum mechanics as a whole. Starting from the photoelectric effect, the quantum property of light has led to the develop ...

EPFL2024

Ultrabroadband sound control with deep-subwavelength plasmacoustic metalayers

Hervé Lissek, Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, 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

A universal route to efficient non-linear response via Thomson scattering in linear solids

Cheng Wang, Gabriel Aeppli, Joe Martin Bailey, Junjie Li, Min Chen, Ji Zhou

Non-linear materials are cornerstones of modern optics and electronics. Strong dependence on the intrinsic properties of particular materials, however, inhibits the at-will extension of demanding non-linear effects, especially those second-order ones, to w ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

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

Dielectric metasurfaces and their applications for optical biosensing

Yasaman Jahani

Over the past century, our understanding of life has been focused on its most fundamental building blocks: molecules. Biological molecules, such as proteins found in blood, other body fluids, or tissues, are excellent guides to identifying a normal or abno ...

EPFL2023

Metamaterial graphene photodetector with bandwidth exceeding 500 gigahertz

Michael Baumann, Yesim Koyaz

Although graphene has met many of its initially predicted optoelectronic, thermal, and mechanical properties, photodetectors with large spectral bandwidths and extremely high frequency responses remain outstanding. In this work, we demonstrate a >500 gigah ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

Topology Optimization of an Electromagnet Manipulator for 3D Uniform Magnetic Field Generation

Yves Perriard, Adrien Jean-Michel Thabuis, Xiaotao Ren, Maribel Caceres Rivera

Magnetic manipulation is a method used for biomedical applications to remotely control micro-robots in a contactless manner. The electromagnet manipulator should control a magnetic field with 3 degrees of freedom inside a region of interest. In various cas ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Fabrication and Characterization of the Kirigami-Inspired SMA-Powered Actuator

Yves Perriard, Sean Thomas, Guilain Lionel Germain Lang, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Marjan Ghorbani

This paper presents an innovative approach to creating Shape Memory Alloys (SMA)-based actuators that are lightweight, compact, and capable of providing large strokes. Inspired by the Kirigami structure, an SMA actuator is designed using the Ω -pattern, wh ...

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

New Sensing Technologies for Monitoring Machinery, Structures, and Manufacturing Processes

Luc Thévenaz, Yi Huang

Sensing is the fundamental technique for sensor data acquisition in monitoring the operation condition of the machinery, structures and manufacturing processes. In this paper, we briefly discuss the general idea and advances of various new sensing technolo ...

2023

Photonic assembly tunable via the pockels effect and method for use in frequency-modulated lidar

Tobias Kippenberg, Grigorii Likhachev, Viacheslav Snigirev

A photonic assembly, a laser setup comprising said photonic assembly and a method for performing frequency-modulated continuous-wave light detection and ranging using said laser setup are disclosed. The photonic assembly (1) comprises an active photonic ch ...

2023

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

Manufacturing-Enabled Tunability of Linear and Nonlinear Epsilon-Near-Zero Properties in Indium Tin Oxide Nanofilms

Qian Li, Xuanyi Liu, Jiaye Wu

Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materialshave attracted great interestdue to their exotic linear and nonlinear responses, which makes itsignificant to tune ENZ wavelengths for wavelength-dependent applications.However, studies to achieve tunability in a wide spect ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Toward Band n78 Shear Bulk Acoustic Resonators Using Crystalline Y-Cut Lithium Niobate Films With Spurious Suppression

Victor Plessky, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli

This work presents the study of suspended Y-cut Lithium Niobate shear bulk acoustic resonators for wide band filter applications in the frequency range of 3.5-4.5GHz. The resonators consist of a Lithium Niobate film with Aluminum top interdigitated electro ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Transversal Spurious Mode Suppression in Ultra-Large-Coupling SH0 Acoustic Resonators on YX36 degrees-Cut Lithium Niobate

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Silvan Stettler

This work reports on the design and fabrication of fundamental shear horizontal (SH0) mode acoustic resonators based on a suspended lithium niobate (LNO) film at 1.04 GHz. Due to the large e16 piezoelectric coefficient of YX36 degrees.-cut LNO, fabricated ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023