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Multiscale Physics‐Informed Neural Networks for the Inverse Design of Hyperuniform Optical Materials

Roberto Riganti, Yilin Zhu, Wei Cai, Salvatore Torquato, Luca Dal Negro

Advanced Optical Materials· Volume 13· Issue 16

Abstract

Abstract In this study, multiscale physics‐informed neural networks (MscalePINNs) are employed for the inverse design of finite‐size photonic materials with stealthy hyperuniform (SHU) disordered geometries. Specifically, MscalePINNs are shown to capture the fast spatial variations of complex fields scattered by arrays of dielectric nanocylinders arranged according to isotropic SHU point patterns, thus enabling a systematic methodology to inversely retrieve their effective dielectric profiles. This approach extends the recently developed high‐frequency homogenization theory of hyperuniform media and retrieves more general permittivity profiles for applications‐relevant finite‐size SHU and optical systems, unveiling unique features related to their isotropic nature. In particular, the existence of a transparency region beyond the long‐wavelength approximation is numerically corroborated, enabling the retrieval of effective and isotropic locally homogeneous media even without disorder‐averaging, in contrast to the case of uncorrelated Poisson random patterns. The flexible multiscale network approach introduced here enables the efficient inverse design of more general effective media and finite‐size optical metamaterials with isotropic electromagnetic responses beyond the limitations of traditional homogenization theories.
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OpenAlex topics: Photonic and Optical Devices · Model Reduction and Neural Networks · Topology Optimization in Engineering

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Affiliations

Department of Physics Boston University 590 Commonwealth Avenue Boston MA 02215 USA

Division of Material Science and Engineering Boston University 15 Saint Mary's Street Brookline MA 02446 USA

Department of Mathematics Southern Methodist University 3200 Dyer Street, 208 Clements Hall Dallas TX 75275 USA

Department of Chemistry and Physics, and Princeton Materials Institute Princeton University Frick Laboratory, 160 Princeton NJ 08544 USA

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Photonics Center Boston University 8 Saint Mary's Street Boston MA 02215 USA

Funding

Army Research Office · National Science Foundation

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