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Title: Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Inverse Design of Optical Metamaterials
Optical metamaterials manipulate light through various confinement and scattering processes, offering unique advantages like high performance, small form factor and easy integration with semiconductor devices. However, designing metasurfaces with suitable optical responses for complex metamaterial systems remains challenging due to the exponentially growing computation cost and the ill-posed nature of inverse problems. To expedite the computation for the inverse design of metasurfaces, a physics-informed deep learning (DL) framework is used. A tandem DL architecture with physics-based learning is used to select designs that are scientifically consistent, have low error in design prediction, and accurate reconstruction of optical responses. The authors focus on the inverse design of a representative plasmonic device and consider the prediction of design for the optical response of a single wavelength incident or a spectrum of wavelength in the visible light range. The physics-based constraint is derived from solving the electromagnetic wave equations for a simplified homogenized model. The model converges with an accuracy up to 97% for inverse design prediction with the optical response for the visible light spectrum as input, and up to 96% for optical response of single wavelength of light as input, with optical response reconstruction accuracy of 99%.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1921730
PAR ID:
10481487
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
ADPR
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Advanced photonics research
ISSN:
2699-9293
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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