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Optimization Methods in Antenna Engineering
Optimization strategies have been heavily used in the antenna design community for many years. Oftentimes, the details of the strategies and optimization configurations are left out of the designs in open lite...
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Open AccessHandedness Dependent Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Hybrid Chiral Metamaterials
We provide the first experimental demonstration of the handedness dependent electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in chiral metamaterials during the interaction with circularly polarized waves. The ob...
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Optimization Methods in Antenna Engineering
Optimization strategies have been heavily used in the antenna design community for many years. Oftentimes, the details of the strategies and optimization configurations are left out of the designs in open lite...
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Open AccessBroadband and Wide Field-of-view Plasmonic Metasurface-enabled Waveplates
Quasi two-dimensional metasurfaces composed of subwavelength nanoresonator arrays can dramatically alter the properties of light in an ultra-thin planar geometry, enabling new optical functions such as anomalo...
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In this chapter, the transformation electromagnetics (TE) approach for achieving highly directive radiation is introduced and demonstrated by both numerical simulations and experimental results obtained from l...
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The aim of this study was to compare the results of surgical resection with three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT) in the treatment of resectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with portal vein tumo...
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Open AccessTailoring Dispersion for Broadband Low-loss Optical Metamaterials Using Deep-subwavelength Inclusions
Metamaterials have the potential to create optical devices with new and diverse functionalities based on novel wave phenomena. Most practical optical systems require that the device properties be tightly contr...
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Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques for Metamaterial Design
This chapter considers a class of optimization techniques that were developed to imitate processes found in nature. Nature is a wonderful source of inspiration for global optimization because so many aspects o...
