三维超材料的非线性电、磁响应特性

理论研究了埋入在非线性介质中的由金属线和谐振环构成的具有三维周期性结构的超材料的有效电、磁响应,计算了该种超材料的有效磁导率和介电常数实部和虚部随外场的变化关系.结果表明,这种超材料有效磁导率和介电常数的实部对外磁场的响应具有回滞效应.在一定条件下,这种结构的属性可在右手材料、电单负材料与磁单负材料之间转换,且这种转换可适当选择在某些特定频率范围内的外磁场强度的方式控制.     

Design of Structural Left-handed Material based on Topology Optimization

An effective method to design structural Left-handed material(LHM) was proposed. A commercial finite element software HFSS and S-parameter retrieval method were used to determine the effective constitutive parameters of the metamaterials, and topology optimization technique was introduced to design the microstructure configurations of the materials with desired electromagnetic characteristics. The material considered was a periodic array of dielectric substrates attached with metal film pieces. By controlli...     

Effect of stepped‐impedance resonators on rectangular metamaterial unit cells

In this article, effect of the stepped‐impedance resonator (SIR) miniaturization technique on rectangular metamaterial unit cells is investigated and the influence of the method's structural parameters on the characteristic impedance and the distance between higher resonance modes is discussed. According to the results, the ideal unit cell for this method should be thick enough and have an impedance ratio greater than one. Furthermore, the SIR technique is applied on a conventional two‐turn spiral metamaterial unit cell and a new compact spiral unit cell is introduced. The effect of this method on the unit cell parameters is investigated and the new unit cell is compared to the conventional spiral. According to the results, a miniaturization factor of 0.75 can be achieved with the new unit cell. To validate the results, a two dimensional array of the unit cell is fabricated and its S‐parameters are measured using the free space method. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 25:582–590, 2015.     

基于偏振不敏感超材料的全光可调谐太赫兹慢光效应研究

太赫兹(terahertz,THz) 慢光效应可以有效地提升THz脉冲数据传输的安全性和存储性,而一般THz慢光器件对入射THz波偏振态变化敏感。本文设计了一种超材料结构,其微结构单元由一个十字型谐振器和4个U型谐振器构成。研究表明:基于超材料的THz慢光效应对线偏振光和圆偏振光均不敏感。通过对超材料结构的参数优化,获得到了最大群折射率为1 618的慢光效应。另外,本文在超材料微结构层和SiO₂衬底之间嵌入了一层二硫化钼(MoS₂)薄膜,当MoS₂的载流子浓度从1.7×10¹⁷ cm-3增大到5.1×10¹⁹ cm-3时,群折射率从1 566减小到26。实现了偏振不敏感全光可调谐的THz慢光效应。该研究有望为偏振不敏感和全光可调谐的THz慢光器件设计提供崭新的研究思路。     

3D Knitting for Pneumatic Soft Robotics

Soft robots adapt passively to complex environments due to their inherent compliance, allowing them to interact safely with fragile or irregular objects and traverse uneven terrain. The vast tunability and ubiquity of textiles has enabled new soft robotic capabilities, especially in the field of wearable robots, but existing textile processing techniques (e.g., cut-and-sew, thermal bonding) are limited in terms of rapid, additive, accessible, and waste-free manufacturing. While 3D knitting has the potential to address these limitations, an incomplete understanding of the impact of structure and material on knit-scale mechanical properties and macro-scale device performance has precluded the widespread adoption of knitted robots. In this work, the roles of knit structure and yarn material properties on textile mechanics spanning three regimes–unfolding, geometric rearrangement, and yarn stretching–are elucidated and shown to be tailorable across unique knit architectures and yarn materials. Based on this understanding, 3D knit soft actuators for extension, contraction, and bending are constructed. Combining these actuation primitives enables the monolithic fabrication of entire soft grippers and robots in a single-step additive manufacturing procedure suitable for a variety of applications. This approach represents a first step in seamlessly “printing” conformal, low-cost, customizable textile-based soft robots on-demand.     

少样本深度学习算法赋能二维衍射超材料逆向设计

二维衍射超材料是研究高阶衍射光束的光学手性响应的理想材料。随着计算机软硬件技术的发展,越来越多的深度学习算法应用于超材料这一领域。当前,深度学习算法大多需要大量训练数据作为支撑,造成了较大时间开销,并且其模型的可解释性通常较弱。针对以上情况,本文提出一种基于数据增强的迭代少样本深度学习算法,利用少量的仿真数据,训练正向预测的网络模型,进而生成大量“伪数据”,再使用扩充后的混合数据集进行逆向设计模型训练,通过多次迭代得到超材料结构参数的准确值。与以往大多数深度学习方法相比,本文方法将仿真数据集规模缩小了至少一到两个数量级,有效降低了对仿真光谱的依赖,且设计成功率不低于96%。同时,从数据的角度,根据二维衍射超材料的几何参数对光学响应的影响解释了实验结果,增强了模型的可解释性。结果表明,本文方法为超灵敏、可调控偏振光电子器件的研发提供了新思路。     

High‐Entropy Alloy (HEA)‐Coated Nanolattice Structures and Their Mechanical Properties

Nanolattice structure fabricated by two‐photon lithography (TPL) is a coupling of size‐dependent mechanical properties at micro/nano‐scale with structural geometry responses in wide applications of scalable micro/nano‐manufacturing. In this work, three‐dimensional (3D) polymeric nanolattices are initially fabricated using TPL, then conformably coated with an 80 nm thick high‐entropy alloy (HEA) thin film (CoCrFeNiAl_0.3) via physical vapor deposition (PVD). 3D atomic‐probe tomography (APT) reveals the homogeneous element distribution in the synthesized HEA film deposited on the substrate. Mechanical properties of the obtained composite architectures are investigated via in situ scanning electron microscope (SEM) compression test, as well as finite element method (FEM) at the relevant length scales. The presented HEA‐coated nanolattice encouragingly not only exhibits superior compressive specific strength of ≈0.032 MPa kg^?1 m³ with density well below 1000 kg m^?3, but also shows good compression ductility due to its composite nature. This concept of combining HEA with polymer lattice structures demonstrates the potential of fabricating novel architected metamaterials with tunable mechanical properties.