Publications associées à MEMS-Reconfigurable Metamaterials and Antenna Applications

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

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

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

500 GHz field-resolved detection in thin-film lithium niobate devices

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Alessandro Tomasino

In this work, we show the coherent reconstruction of terahertz (THz) transients in thin-film lithium niobate integrated photonics circuits. Our devices modulate the intensity of a probe beam guided through a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) structure, und ...

IEEE2023

Effect of mechanical nonlinearity on the electromagnetic response of a microwave tunable metamaterial

Taha Goudarzi, Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Bakhtiyar Orazbayev, Rayehe Karimi Mahabadi

Tunable metamaterials functionalities change in response to external stimuli. Mechanical deformation is known to be an efficient approach to tune the electromagnetic response of a deformable metamaterial. However, in the case of large mechanical deformatio ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Controlled filamentation instability as a scalable fabrication approach to flexible metamaterials

Fabien Sorin, Louis Marie Philippe Martin-Monier, Pierre-Luc Eloi Piveteau, William Nicolas Duncan Esposito

Long and flexible arrays of nanowires find impactful applications in sensing, photonics, and energy harvesting. Conventional manufacturing relies largely on lithographic methods limited in wafer size, rigidity, and machine write time. Here, we report a sca ...

Nature Portfolio2022

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

Metasurface Near-Field Measurements with Incident Field Reconstruction Using a Single Horn Antenna

Shourya Dutta Gupta, Ville Tuovi Tiukuvaara

Metasurfaces (MSs) are the 2-D equivalent of metaterials, the latter being a class of artificial engineered materials exhibiting peculiar electromagnetic properties [1], [2]. Generally constructed as arrays of deeply sub-wavelength resonant particles on a ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Electromagnetic waves under nonstationary conditions, the connection with parity-time symmetry and studies on resonant systems

Theodoros Koutserimpas

In this thesis, the electromagnetic wave propagation is studied in nonstationary-medium scenarios. The electromagnetic fields under material time-modulation are shown to conserve their momentum but not their energy. The mathematical foundations and analysi ...

EPFL2021

On the 5G Communications: Fractal-Shaped Antennas for PPDR Applications

Maria-Alexandra Paun

In this study, one method of using antennas based on fractals to cover few kinds of public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) communications was presented. Dedicated antenna forms, necessary for antenna design by 5G implementation, were enhanced to suit ...

WILEY-HINDAWI2021

Self-induced thermo-optical effects in silicon and germanium dielectric nanoresonators

Giulia Tagliabue, Theodoros Tsoulos

Dielectric nanoresona tors uniquely support both magnetic and electric resonances across a wide wavelength range. They are thus being exploited in a growing number of groundbreaking applications. In particular, they have been recently suggested as promisin ...

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

Zero Index Metamaterial for High Gain Array

Tingyong Jiang

Many metamaterials, including metal wire grid, was invented to enhance the performance of the antenna in the last decade. A novel zero index metamaterial (ZIM), consisting of double metal layers with periodic circular perforation cells, was proposed and st ...

IEEE2020

Observation of coupled mechanical resonance modes within suspended 3D nanowire arrays

Yusuf Leblebici, Yasin Kilinc

Complex yet compact nanoscale mechanisms have largely been absent due to the rather limited availability of components and integration techniques. Especially missing have been efficient interconnects with adjustable characteristics. To address this issue, ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

A Subwavelength Microwave Bandpass Filter Based on a Chiral Waveguide

Maliheh Khatibi Moghaddam, Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury

Wave manipulation at a subwavelength scale has recently attracted significant interest, especially for low-frequency wave propagation, from acoustic to microwave devices. Recently, a few methods achieving subwavelength routing using locally resonant metama ...

IEEE Xplore2020

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

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

Acoustic birefringence via non-Eulerian metamaterials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Farzad Zangeneh Nejad

The recently proposed concept of metamaterials has opened exciting venues to control wave-matter interactions in unprecedented ways. Here, we demonstrate the relevance of metamaterials for inducing acoustic birefringence, a phenomenon which has already fou ...

2019

Robust wave transport at subwavelength scale with chiral metamaterials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Nadège Sihame Kaïna, Bakhtiyar Orazbayev

Rapid progress in all types of communication systems imposes each time more strict requirements on the communication devices, requiring having the overall device's size as small as possible, but also increasing the demands on the robustness of the transmis ...

IEEE2019

Gain enhancement of circular waveguide antennas using near-zero index metamaterials

Kosmas Tsakmakidis, Foziyeh Sohrabi, Ershad Mohammadi

In this article, a rigorous analytical methodology is introduced for designing near-zero refractive index metamaterials (NZIMs). Our proposed NZIM media is realized by three stacked layers of perforated metallic surfaces, each layer composed of a fishnet-l ...

WILEY2019

Non-reciprocal manipulation of subwavelength fields in locally-resonant metamaterial crystals

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Farzad Zangeneh Nejad, Nadège Sihame Kaïna

Locally-resonant metamaterial crystals are artificial materials built from small spatially-local resonant inclusions arranged periodically at subwavelength scale. Unlike conventional continuous metamaterials, for which spatial dispersion originates mostly ...

2020