Single-grain models with different cerium contents or structural parameters have been introduced to investigate the reversal magnetization behaviors in cerium-containing magnets. All the micromagnetic simulations are ...Single-grain models with different cerium contents or structural parameters have been introduced to investigate the reversal magnetization behaviors in cerium-containing magnets. All the micromagnetic simulations are carried out via the object oriented micromagnetic framework(OOMMF). As for single(Nd,Ce)_2 Fe_(14)B type grain, the coercivity decreases monotonously with the increase of the cerium content. Four types of grain structure have been compared: single(Nd,Ce)_2 Fe_(14)B type, core((Nd,Ce)_2 Fe_(14)B)-shell(Nd_2 Fe_(14)B) type with 2 nm thick shell, core(Ce_2 Fe_(14)B)-shell(Nd_2 Fe_(14)B) type, and core(Nd_2 Fe_(14)B)-shell(Ce_2 Fe_(14)B) type. It is found that core((Nd,Ce)_2 Fe_(14)B)-shell(Nd_2 Fe_(14)B)type grain with 2 nm thick shell always presents the largest coercivity under the same total cerium content. Furthermore,the relationship between the coercivity and the shell thickness t in core((Nd,Ce)_2 Fe_(14)B)-shell(Nd_2 Fe_(14)B) type grain has been studied. When the total cerium content is kept at 20.51 at.%, the analyzed results show that as t varies from 1 nm to 7 nm, the coercivity gradually ascends at the beginning, then quickly descends after reaching the maximum value when t = 5 nm. From the perspective of the positions of nucleation points, the reasons why t affects the coercivity are discussed in detail.展开更多
This study fabricates an AZ31 magnesium alloy tube by spinning technology-power stagger forward spinning.The microstructure evolution of the tube is investigated by combining electron backscatter diffraction and trans...This study fabricates an AZ31 magnesium alloy tube by spinning technology-power stagger forward spinning.The microstructure evolution of the tube is investigated by combining electron backscatter diffraction and transmission electron microscopy analysis,and the corrosion resistance is measured by an electrochemical corrosion test.Results show that the grains are obviously more uniform and finer along the wall thickness’s direction of the AZ31 alloy tube after the third spinning pass.The number of twins ascends first and then descends,while the varying trend of low-angle grain boundaries(LAGBs)is opposite to that of the twins as the spinning pass increases.With the increase of the total spinning deformation,the deformation texture initially increases and the c-axis of the{0001}crystal plane gradually rotates to the axial direction of the tube;the deformation texture then decreases and the orientation of grains becomes more random.The main mechanism of grain refinement is dynamic recrystallization by the twin-induced way and bowing out of the nucleation at grain boundaries during the first and second pass.However,the dominant mechanism of the refined grain is the high-temperature dynamic recovery in the third pass,and the microstructure mainly consists of substructured grains.After the spinning deformation,the corrosion resistance of the AZ31 alloy tube decreases due to the combined effect of twins and high density-dislocations.展开更多
The Bloch band theory and Brillouin zone(BZ)that characterize wave-like behaviors in periodic mediums are two cornerstones of contemporary physics,ranging from condensed matter to topological physics.Recent theoretica...The Bloch band theory and Brillouin zone(BZ)that characterize wave-like behaviors in periodic mediums are two cornerstones of contemporary physics,ranging from condensed matter to topological physics.Recent theoretical breakthrough revealed that,under the projective symmetry algebra enforced by artificial gauge fields,the usual two-dimensional(2D)BZ(orientable Brillouin two-torus)can be fundamentally modified to a non-orientable Brillouin Klein bottle with radically distinct manifold topology.However,the physical consequence of artificial gauge fields on the more general three-dimensional(3D)BZ(orientable Brillouin three-torus)was so far missing.Here,we theoretically discovered and experimentally observed that the fundamental domain and topology of the usual 3D BZ can be reduced to a non-orientable Brillouin Klein space or an orientable Brillouin half-turn space in a 3D acoustic crystal with artificial gauge fields.We experimentally identify peculiar 3D momentum-space non-symmorphic screw rotation and glide reflection symmetries in the measured band structures.Moreover,we experimentally demonstrate a novel stacked weak Klein bottle insulator featuring a nonzero Z2 topological invariant and self-collimated topological surface states at two opposite surfaces related by a nonlocal twist,radically distinct from all previous 3D topological insulators.Our discovery not only fundamentally modifies the fundamental domain and topology of 3D BZ,but also opens the door towards a wealth of previously overlooked momentum-space multidimensional manifold topologies and novel gaugesymmetry-enriched topological physics and robust acoustic wave manipulations beyond the existing paradigms.展开更多
A novel Nd-Fe-B type permanent magnet with excellent thermal stability was designed by Co replacing Fe in the main phase and the grain boundary phase.The remanence and coercivity temperature coefficient reach 0.058%/...A novel Nd-Fe-B type permanent magnet with excellent thermal stability was designed by Co replacing Fe in the main phase and the grain boundary phase.The remanence and coercivity temperature coefficient reach 0.058%/℃and 0.465%/℃in the te mperature range from 25 to 100℃,which are much lower than those of commercial Nd-Fe-B magnet.An enhanced Curie temperature is obtained for the novel magnet due to the Co substitution,which significantly improves the operating temperature.The microstructure result reveals that an amorphous phase exists in the intergranular grains which is probably responsible for the deterioration of intrinsic coercivity.This work can provide a reference for the design and optimization of components of sintered Nd-Fe-B magnets with excellent thermal stability.展开更多
The high-temperature magnetic perfo rmance and micro structure of Sm_(1-x)Gd_(x)(Co_(bal)Fe_(0.09)Cu_(0.09)Zr_(0.025))_(7.2)(x=0.3,0.5) magnets were investigated.With the isothermal aging time decreasing from 11 to 3 ...The high-temperature magnetic perfo rmance and micro structure of Sm_(1-x)Gd_(x)(Co_(bal)Fe_(0.09)Cu_(0.09)Zr_(0.025))_(7.2)(x=0.3,0.5) magnets were investigated.With the isothermal aging time decreasing from 11 to 3 h,the temperature coefficient of intrinsic coercivity in the temperature range of 25-500℃,β_(25-500℃),was optimized from -0,167%/℃ to-0.112%/℃ for x=0.3 magnets.The noticeable enhancement(~33%) of temperature stability is correlated with the increased content of 1:5H cell boundary phase and its relatively high Curie temperature as well.However,for the x=0.5 magnet,it is found that the presence of Sm_(5)Co_(19) phases and wider nanotwin variants hinder the formation of 1:5H cell boundary phase.The insufficient 1:5H is not beneficial to the proper redistribution of Cu in cell boundary,making the x=0.5 magnet difficult to achieve higher temperature stability.Consequently,the approach of adjusting the isothermal aging process can offer guidance for attaining superior magnetic performance in the temperature range from 25 to 500℃ for Gd-substituted Sm_(2)Co_(17)-type magnets.展开更多
Being invisible ad libitum has long captivated the popular imagination,particularly in terms of safeguarding modern high-end instruments from potential threats.Decades ago,the advent of metamaterials and transformatio...Being invisible ad libitum has long captivated the popular imagination,particularly in terms of safeguarding modern high-end instruments from potential threats.Decades ago,the advent of metamaterials and transformation optics sparked considerable interest in invisibility cloaks,which have been mainly demonstrated in ground and waveguide modalities.However,an omnidirectional flying cloak has not been achieved,primarily due to the challenges associated with dynamic synthesis of metasurface dispersion.We demonstrate an autonomous aeroamphibious invisibility cloak that incorporates a suite of perception,decision,and execution modules,capable of maintaining invisibility amidst kaleidoscopic backgrounds and neutralizing external stimuli.The physical breakthrough lies in the spatiotemporal modulation imparted on tunable metasurfaces to sculpt the scattering field in both space and frequency domains.To intelligently control the spatiotemporal metasurfaces,we introduce a stochastic-evolution learning that automatically aligns with the optimal solution through maximum probabilistic inference.In a fully self-driving experiment,we implement this concept on an unmanned drone and showcase adaptive invisibility in three canonical landscapes-sea,land,and air-with a similarity rate of up to 95%.Our work extends the family of invisibility cloaks to flying modality and inspires other research on material discoveries and homeostatic meta-devices.展开更多
Recent breakthroughs in deep learning have ushered in an essential tool for optics and photonics,recurring in various applications of material design,system optimization,and automation control.Deep learning-enabled on...Recent breakthroughs in deep learning have ushered in an essential tool for optics and photonics,recurring in various applications of material design,system optimization,and automation control.Deep learning-enabled on-demand metasurface design has been the subject of extensive expansion,as it can alleviate the time-consuming,low-efficiency,and experience-orientated shortcomings in conventional numerical simulations and physics-based methods.However,collecting samples and training neural networks are fundamentally confined to predefined individual metamaterials and tend to fail for large problem sizes.Inspired by object-oriented C++programming,we propose a knowledge-inherited paradigm for multi-object and shape-unbound metasurface inverse design.Each inherited neural network carries knowledge from the"parent"metasurface and then is freely assembled to construct the"offspring"metasurface;such a process is as simple as building a container-type house.We benchmark the paradigm by the free design of aperiodic and periodic metasurfaces,with accuracies that reach 86.7%.Furthermore,we present an intelligent origami metasurface to facilitate compatible and lightweight satellite communication facilities.Our work opens up a new avenue for automatic metasurface design and leverages the assemblability to broaden the adaptability of intelligent metadevices.展开更多
Searching for an optimal solution among many nonunique answers provided by transformation optics is critical for many branches of research,such as the burgeoning research on invisibility cloaks.The past decades have w...Searching for an optimal solution among many nonunique answers provided by transformation optics is critical for many branches of research,such as the burgeoning research on invisibility cloaks.The past decades have witnessed rapid development of transformation optics,and different kinds of invisibility cloaks have been designed and implemented.However,the available cloaks realized thus far have been mostly demonstrated with reduced parameters,which greatly impact the predefined cloaking performance.Here,we report a general design strategy to realize full-parameter omnidirectional cloaks that can hide arbitrarily shaped objects in free space.Our approach combines a singular transformation with transformation-invariant metamaterials.The cloaking device with extreme parameters is implemented using a metallic array structure.In the experiment,two cloak samples are designed and fabricated,one with nondiscrete cloaking regions and the other with separated hidden regions.Near-unit transmission of electromagnetic waves with arbitrary incident angles is experimentally demonstrated along with significantly suppressed scattering.Our work challenges the prevailing paradigms of invisibility cloaks and provides deep insight into how transformation optics could be harnessed to obtain easily-accessible metadevices.展开更多
We present a numerical study on the penetration of spherical projectiles into a granular bed in the presence of upward gas flows.Due to the presence of interstitial fluid,the force chains between particles in the gran...We present a numerical study on the penetration of spherical projectiles into a granular bed in the presence of upward gas flows.Due to the presence of interstitial fluid,the force chains between particles in the granular bed are weakened significantly,and this distinguishes the penetration behavior from that in the absence of fluid.An interesting phenomenon,namely granular jet,is observed during the penetration,and the mechanism for its formation and growth is attributed to the merging of granular vortices generated by the interaction between the intruder and primary particles.Moreover,both the final penetration depth and the maximum diameter of the crater are found to follow a power-law dependence with the impact velocity,and the maximum height reached by the granular jet tends to increase linearly as the impact velocity increases,agreeing well with the experimental results reported in the literature.展开更多
Effective-medium theory pertains to the theoretical modelling of homogenization,which aims to replace an inhomogeneous structure of subwavelength-scale constituents with a homogeneous effective medium.The effective-me...Effective-medium theory pertains to the theoretical modelling of homogenization,which aims to replace an inhomogeneous structure of subwavelength-scale constituents with a homogeneous effective medium.The effective-medium theory is fundamental to various realms,including electromagnetics and material science,since it can largely decrease the complexity in the exploration of light-matter interactions by providing simple acceptable approximation.Generally,the effective-medium theory is thought to be applicable to any all-dielectric system with deep-subwavelength constituents,under the condition that the effective medium does not have a critical angle,at which the total internal reflection occurs.Here we reveal a fundamental breakdown of the effective-medium theory that can be applied in very general conditions:showing it for deep-subwavelength all-dielectric multilayers even without a critical angle.Our finding relies on an exotic photonic spin Hall effect,which is shown to be ultrasensitive to the stacking order of deep-subwavelength dielectric layers,since the spin-orbit interaction of light is dependent on slight phase accumulations during the wave propagation.Our results indicate that the photonic spin Hall effect could provide a promising and powerful tool for measuring structural defects for all-dielectric systems even in the extreme nanometer scale.展开更多
The van der Waals heterostructures with aperiodic stackings have been exploited to shape the spatiotemporal wavefront of free-electron X-ray radiation.
Matrix computation,as a fundamental building block of information processing in science and technology,contributes most of the computational overheads in modern signal processing and artificial intelligence algorithms...Matrix computation,as a fundamental building block of information processing in science and technology,contributes most of the computational overheads in modern signal processing and artificial intelligence algorithms.Photonic accelerators are designed to accelerate specific categories of computing in the optical domain,especially matrix multiplication,to address the growing demand for computing resources and capacity.Photonic matrix multiplication has much potential to expand the domain of telecommunication,and artificial intelligence benefiting from its superior performance.Recent research in photonic matrix multiplication has flourished and may provide opportunities to develop applications that are unachievable at present by conventional electronic processors.In this review,we first introduce the methods of photonic matrix multiplication,mainly including the plane light conversion method,Mach–Zehnder interferometer method and wavelength division multiplexing method.We also summarize the developmental milestones of photonic matrix multiplication and the related applications.Then,we review their detailed advances in applications to optical signal processing and artificial neural networks in recent years.Finally,we comment on the challenges and perspectives of photonic matrix multiplication and photonic acceleration.展开更多
Optical logic operations lie at the heart of optical computing,and they enable many applications such as ultrahighspeed information processing.However,the reported optical logic gates rely heavily on the precise contr...Optical logic operations lie at the heart of optical computing,and they enable many applications such as ultrahighspeed information processing.However,the reported optical logic gates rely heavily on the precise control of input light signals,including their phase difference,polarization,and intensity and the size of the incident beams.Due to the complexity and difficulty in these precise controls,the two output optical logic states may suffer from an inherent instability and a low contrast ratio of intensity.Moreover,the miniaturization of optical logic gates becomes difficult if the extra bulky apparatus for these controls is considered.As such,it is desirable to get rid of these complicated controls and to achieve full logic functionality in a compact photonic system.Such a goal remains challenging.Here,we introduce a simple yet universal design strategy,capable of using plane waves as the incident signal,to perform optical logic operations via a diffractive neural network.Physically,the incident plane wave is first spatially encoded by a specific logic operation at the input layer and further decoded through the hidden layers,namely,a compound Huygens’metasurface.That is,the judiciously designed metasurface scatters the encoded light into one of two small designated areas at the output layer,which provides the information of output logic states.Importantly,after training of the diffractive neural network,all seven basic types of optical logic operations can be realized by the same metasurface.As a conceptual illustration,three logic operations(NOT,OR,and AND)are experimentally demonstrated at microwave frequencies.展开更多
Recent advances in non-radiative wireless power transfer(WPT)technique essentially relying on magnetic resonance and near-field coupling have successfully enabled a wide range of applications.However,WPT systems based...Recent advances in non-radiative wireless power transfer(WPT)technique essentially relying on magnetic resonance and near-field coupling have successfully enabled a wide range of applications.However,WPT systems based on double resonators are severely limited to short-or mid-range distance,due to the deteriorating efficiency and power with long transfer distance.WPT systems based on multi-relay resonators can overcome this problem,which,however,suffer from sensitivity to perturbations and fabrication imperfections.Here,we experimentally demonstrate a concept of topological wireless power transfer(TWPT),where energy is transferred efficiently via the near-field coupling between two topological edge states localized at the ends of a one-dimensional radiowave topological insulator.Such a TWPT system can be modelled as a parity-time-symmetric Su-Schrieffer-Heeger(SSH)chain with complex boundary potentials.Besides,the coil configurations are judiciously designed,which significantly suppress the unwanted cross-couplings between nonadjacent coils that could break the chiral symmetry of the SSH chain.By tuning the inter-and intra-cell coupling strengths,we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate high energy transfer efficiency near the exceptional point of the topological edge states,even in the presence of disorder.The combination of topological metamaterials,non-Hermitian physics,and WPT techniques could promise a variety of robust,efficient WPT applications over long distances in electronics,transportation,and industry.展开更多
Being invisible at will has been a long-standing dream for centuries, epitomized by numerous legends;humans have never stopped their exploration steps to realize this dream. Recent years have witnessed a breakthrough ...Being invisible at will has been a long-standing dream for centuries, epitomized by numerous legends;humans have never stopped their exploration steps to realize this dream. Recent years have witnessed a breakthrough in this search due to the advent of transformation optics, metamaterials, and metasurfaces. However, the previous metasurface cloaks typically work in a reflection manner that relies on a high-reflection background, thus limiting the applications. Here, we propose an easy yet viable approach to realize the transmitted metasurface cloak, just composed of two planar metasurfaces to hide an object inside, such as a cat. To tackle the hard-to-converge issue caused by the nonuniqueness phenomenon, we deploy a tandem neural network(T-NN) to efficiently streamline the inverse design. Once pretrained, the T-NN can work for a customer-desired electromagnetic response in one single forward computation, saving a great amount of time. Our work opens a new avenue to realize a transparent invisibility cloak, and the tandem-NN can also inspire the inverse design of other metamaterials and photonics.展开更多
An invisibility cloak that can hide an arbitrary object external to the cloak itself has not been devised before.In this Letter,we introduce a novel way to design a remote cloaking device that makes any object located...An invisibility cloak that can hide an arbitrary object external to the cloak itself has not been devised before.In this Letter,we introduce a novel way to design a remote cloaking device that makes any object located at a certain distance invisible.This is accomplished using multi-folded transformation optics to remotely generate a hidden region around the object that no field can penetrate and that does not disturb the far-field scattering electromagnetic field.As a result,any object in the hidden region can stay in position or move freely within that region and remain invisible.Our idea is further extended in order to design a remote illusion optics that can transform any arbitrary object into another one.Unlike other cloaking methods,this method would require no knowledge of the details of the object itself.The proposed multi-folded transformation optics will be crucial in the design of remote devices in a variety of contexts.展开更多
Moving electrons interacting with media can give rise to electromagnetic radiations and has been emerged as a promising platform for particle detection,spectroscopies,and free-electron lasers.In this letter,we investi...Moving electrons interacting with media can give rise to electromagnetic radiations and has been emerged as a promising platform for particle detection,spectroscopies,and free-electron lasers.In this letter,we investigate the Smith-Purcell radiation from helical metagratings,chiral structures similar to deoxyribonucleic acid(DNA),in order to understand the interplay between electrons,photons,and object chirality.Spiral feld patterns can be generated while introducing a gradient azimuthal phase distribution to the induced electric dipole array at the cylindrical interface.Experimental measurements show efcient control over angular momentum of the radiated feld at microwave regime,utilizing a phased electromagnetic dipole array to mimic moving charged particles.Te angular momentum of the radiated wave is determined solely by the handedness of the helical structure,and it thus serves as a potential candidate for the detection of chiral objects.Our fndings not only pave a way for design of orbital angular momentum free-electron lasers but also provide a platform to study the interplay between swif electrons with chiral objects.展开更多
An ideal transformation-based omnidirectional cloak always relies on metamaterials with extreme parameters,which were previously thought to be too difcult to realize.For such a reason,in previous experimental proposal...An ideal transformation-based omnidirectional cloak always relies on metamaterials with extreme parameters,which were previously thought to be too difcult to realize.For such a reason,in previous experimental proposals of invisibility cloaks,the extreme parameters requirements are usually abandoned,leading to inherent scattering.Here,we report on the frst experimental demonstration of an omnidirectional cloak that satisfes the extreme parameters requirement,which can hide objects in a homogenous background.Instead of using resonant metamaterials that usually involve unavoidable absorptive loss,the extreme parameters are achieved using a nonresonant metamaterial comprising arrays of subwavelength metallic channels manufactured with 3D metal printing technology.A high level transmission of electromagnetic wave propagating through the present omnidirectional cloak,as well as signifcant reduction of scattering feld,is demonstrated both numerically and experimentally.Our work may also inspire experimental realizations of the other full-parameter omnidirectional optical devices such as concentrator,rotators,and optical illusion apparatuses.展开更多
All-optical modulators with ultrahigh speed are in high demand due to the rapid development of optical interconnection and computation. However, due to weak photon–photon interaction, the advancement of all-optical m...All-optical modulators with ultrahigh speed are in high demand due to the rapid development of optical interconnection and computation. However, due to weak photon–photon interaction, the advancement of all-optical modulators is consequently hampered by the large footprint and high power consumption. In this work, the enhanced sensitivity around an exceptional point(EP) from parity-time(PT) symmetry theory is initiatively introduced into a nonlinear all-optical modulator design. Further, a non-Hermitian all-optical modulator based on PT symmetry is proposed, which utilizes the large Kerr nonlinearity from indium tin oxide(ITO) in its epsilon-near-zero(ENZ) region. The whole system is expected to operate around EP, giving rise to the advantages of nanoscale integration and large modulation depth. This presented modulator with high efficiency and high-speed all-optical control can be commendably extended to the design methodology of various nanostructures and further prompt the development of all-optical signal processing.展开更多
Unconventional Weyl points with topological charges higher than 1 can transform into various complex unconventional Weyl exceptional contours under non-Hermitian perturbations.However,theoretical studies of these exce...Unconventional Weyl points with topological charges higher than 1 can transform into various complex unconventional Weyl exceptional contours under non-Hermitian perturbations.However,theoretical studies of these exceptional contours have been limited to tight-binding models.Here,we propose to realize unconventional Weyl exceptional contours in photonic continua—non-Hermitian anisotropic chiral plasma,based on ab initio calculation by Maxwell’s equations.By perturbing in-plane permittivity,an unconventional Weyl point can transform into a quadratic Weyl exceptional ring,a type I Weyl exceptional chain with one chain point,a type II Weyl exceptional chain with two chain points,or other forms.Realistic metamaterials with effective constitutive parameters are proposed to implement these unconventional Weyl exceptional contours.Our work paves a way toward exploration of exotic physics of unconventional Weyl exceptional contours in non-Hermitian topological photonic continua.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51590882 and 51871063)
文摘Single-grain models with different cerium contents or structural parameters have been introduced to investigate the reversal magnetization behaviors in cerium-containing magnets. All the micromagnetic simulations are carried out via the object oriented micromagnetic framework(OOMMF). As for single(Nd,Ce)_2 Fe_(14)B type grain, the coercivity decreases monotonously with the increase of the cerium content. Four types of grain structure have been compared: single(Nd,Ce)_2 Fe_(14)B type, core((Nd,Ce)_2 Fe_(14)B)-shell(Nd_2 Fe_(14)B) type with 2 nm thick shell, core(Ce_2 Fe_(14)B)-shell(Nd_2 Fe_(14)B) type, and core(Nd_2 Fe_(14)B)-shell(Ce_2 Fe_(14)B) type. It is found that core((Nd,Ce)_2 Fe_(14)B)-shell(Nd_2 Fe_(14)B)type grain with 2 nm thick shell always presents the largest coercivity under the same total cerium content. Furthermore,the relationship between the coercivity and the shell thickness t in core((Nd,Ce)_2 Fe_(14)B)-shell(Nd_2 Fe_(14)B) type grain has been studied. When the total cerium content is kept at 20.51 at.%, the analyzed results show that as t varies from 1 nm to 7 nm, the coercivity gradually ascends at the beginning, then quickly descends after reaching the maximum value when t = 5 nm. From the perspective of the positions of nucleation points, the reasons why t affects the coercivity are discussed in detail.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51805358 and 51775366)Key Research and Development Program of Jinzhong (No. Y201023)College Students’ Innovative Entrepreneurial Training Plan Program (No. 202010112011)
文摘This study fabricates an AZ31 magnesium alloy tube by spinning technology-power stagger forward spinning.The microstructure evolution of the tube is investigated by combining electron backscatter diffraction and transmission electron microscopy analysis,and the corrosion resistance is measured by an electrochemical corrosion test.Results show that the grains are obviously more uniform and finer along the wall thickness’s direction of the AZ31 alloy tube after the third spinning pass.The number of twins ascends first and then descends,while the varying trend of low-angle grain boundaries(LAGBs)is opposite to that of the twins as the spinning pass increases.With the increase of the total spinning deformation,the deformation texture initially increases and the c-axis of the{0001}crystal plane gradually rotates to the axial direction of the tube;the deformation texture then decreases and the orientation of grains becomes more random.The main mechanism of grain refinement is dynamic recrystallization by the twin-induced way and bowing out of the nucleation at grain boundaries during the first and second pass.However,the dominant mechanism of the refined grain is the high-temperature dynamic recovery in the third pass,and the microstructure mainly consists of substructured grains.After the spinning deformation,the corrosion resistance of the AZ31 alloy tube decreases due to the combined effect of twins and high density-dislocations.
基金funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62375118,6231101016,and 12104211)Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission(20220815111105001)+8 种基金SUSTech(Y01236148 and Y01236248)Zhengyou Liu acknowledges funding from the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFA1404900 and 2018YFA0305800)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11890701)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12304484)Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province(2414050002552)Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission(202308073000209)Perry Ping Shum acknowledges the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62220106006)Shenzhen Science and Technology Program(SGDX20211123114001001)Kexin Xiang acknowledges the Special Funds for the Cultivation of Guangdong College Students’Scientific and Technological Innovation(pdjh2023c21002).
文摘The Bloch band theory and Brillouin zone(BZ)that characterize wave-like behaviors in periodic mediums are two cornerstones of contemporary physics,ranging from condensed matter to topological physics.Recent theoretical breakthrough revealed that,under the projective symmetry algebra enforced by artificial gauge fields,the usual two-dimensional(2D)BZ(orientable Brillouin two-torus)can be fundamentally modified to a non-orientable Brillouin Klein bottle with radically distinct manifold topology.However,the physical consequence of artificial gauge fields on the more general three-dimensional(3D)BZ(orientable Brillouin three-torus)was so far missing.Here,we theoretically discovered and experimentally observed that the fundamental domain and topology of the usual 3D BZ can be reduced to a non-orientable Brillouin Klein space or an orientable Brillouin half-turn space in a 3D acoustic crystal with artificial gauge fields.We experimentally identify peculiar 3D momentum-space non-symmorphic screw rotation and glide reflection symmetries in the measured band structures.Moreover,we experimentally demonstrate a novel stacked weak Klein bottle insulator featuring a nonzero Z2 topological invariant and self-collimated topological surface states at two opposite surfaces related by a nonlocal twist,radically distinct from all previous 3D topological insulators.Our discovery not only fundamentally modifies the fundamental domain and topology of 3D BZ,but also opens the door towards a wealth of previously overlooked momentum-space multidimensional manifold topologies and novel gaugesymmetry-enriched topological physics and robust acoustic wave manipulations beyond the existing paradigms.
基金Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program(2021YFB3502801,2021YFB3502803)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52001067)。
文摘A novel Nd-Fe-B type permanent magnet with excellent thermal stability was designed by Co replacing Fe in the main phase and the grain boundary phase.The remanence and coercivity temperature coefficient reach 0.058%/℃and 0.465%/℃in the te mperature range from 25 to 100℃,which are much lower than those of commercial Nd-Fe-B magnet.An enhanced Curie temperature is obtained for the novel magnet due to the Co substitution,which significantly improves the operating temperature.The microstructure result reveals that an amorphous phase exists in the intergranular grains which is probably responsible for the deterioration of intrinsic coercivity.This work can provide a reference for the design and optimization of components of sintered Nd-Fe-B magnets with excellent thermal stability.
基金Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFB3503100,2022YFB3505303,2021YFB3501500)the Key Technology Research and Development Program of Shandong Province (2019JZZY020210)。
文摘The high-temperature magnetic perfo rmance and micro structure of Sm_(1-x)Gd_(x)(Co_(bal)Fe_(0.09)Cu_(0.09)Zr_(0.025))_(7.2)(x=0.3,0.5) magnets were investigated.With the isothermal aging time decreasing from 11 to 3 h,the temperature coefficient of intrinsic coercivity in the temperature range of 25-500℃,β_(25-500℃),was optimized from -0,167%/℃ to-0.112%/℃ for x=0.3 magnets.The noticeable enhancement(~33%) of temperature stability is correlated with the increased content of 1:5H cell boundary phase and its relatively high Curie temperature as well.However,for the x=0.5 magnet,it is found that the presence of Sm_(5)Co_(19) phases and wider nanotwin variants hinder the formation of 1:5H cell boundary phase.The insufficient 1:5H is not beneficial to the proper redistribution of Cu in cell boundary,making the x=0.5 magnet difficult to achieve higher temperature stability.Consequently,the approach of adjusting the isothermal aging process can offer guidance for attaining superior magnetic performance in the temperature range from 25 to 500℃ for Gd-substituted Sm_(2)Co_(17)-type magnets.
基金sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61625502,11961141010,61975176,62071424,and 62101485)the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST(Grant No.2022QNRC001)+1 种基金the Top-Notch Young Talents Program of Chinathe Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
文摘Being invisible ad libitum has long captivated the popular imagination,particularly in terms of safeguarding modern high-end instruments from potential threats.Decades ago,the advent of metamaterials and transformation optics sparked considerable interest in invisibility cloaks,which have been mainly demonstrated in ground and waveguide modalities.However,an omnidirectional flying cloak has not been achieved,primarily due to the challenges associated with dynamic synthesis of metasurface dispersion.We demonstrate an autonomous aeroamphibious invisibility cloak that incorporates a suite of perception,decision,and execution modules,capable of maintaining invisibility amidst kaleidoscopic backgrounds and neutralizing external stimuli.The physical breakthrough lies in the spatiotemporal modulation imparted on tunable metasurfaces to sculpt the scattering field in both space and frequency domains.To intelligently control the spatiotemporal metasurfaces,we introduce a stochastic-evolution learning that automatically aligns with the optimal solution through maximum probabilistic inference.In a fully self-driving experiment,we implement this concept on an unmanned drone and showcase adaptive invisibility in three canonical landscapes-sea,land,and air-with a similarity rate of up to 95%.Our work extends the family of invisibility cloaks to flying modality and inspires other research on material discoveries and homeostatic meta-devices.
基金sponsored by the Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology under Grants No.2022YFA1404704,2022YFA1404902,2022YFA1405200the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NNSFC)under Grants No.11961141010,No.61975176,the Top-Notch Young Talents Program of China and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
文摘Recent breakthroughs in deep learning have ushered in an essential tool for optics and photonics,recurring in various applications of material design,system optimization,and automation control.Deep learning-enabled on-demand metasurface design has been the subject of extensive expansion,as it can alleviate the time-consuming,low-efficiency,and experience-orientated shortcomings in conventional numerical simulations and physics-based methods.However,collecting samples and training neural networks are fundamentally confined to predefined individual metamaterials and tend to fail for large problem sizes.Inspired by object-oriented C++programming,we propose a knowledge-inherited paradigm for multi-object and shape-unbound metasurface inverse design.Each inherited neural network carries knowledge from the"parent"metasurface and then is freely assembled to construct the"offspring"metasurface;such a process is as simple as building a container-type house.We benchmark the paradigm by the free design of aperiodic and periodic metasurfaces,with accuracies that reach 86.7%.Furthermore,we present an intelligent origami metasurface to facilitate compatible and lightweight satellite communication facilities.Our work opens up a new avenue for automatic metasurface design and leverages the assemblability to broaden the adaptability of intelligent metadevices.
基金sponsored by the Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology(Grants Nos.2022Y FA1404704,2022YFA1405200,and 2022YFA1404902)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61975176)+5 种基金the Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province(Grant No.2022C01036)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universitiesthe work at Nanyang Technological University was sponsored by Singapore Ministry of Education(Grant No.MOE2018-T2-2-189(S))A*Star AME IRG Grant(Grant No.A20E5c0095)Programmatic Funds(Grant No.A18A7b0058)National Research Foundation Singapore Competitive Research Program(Grant Nos.NRF-CRP22-2019-0006 and NRF-CRP23-2019-0007).
文摘Searching for an optimal solution among many nonunique answers provided by transformation optics is critical for many branches of research,such as the burgeoning research on invisibility cloaks.The past decades have witnessed rapid development of transformation optics,and different kinds of invisibility cloaks have been designed and implemented.However,the available cloaks realized thus far have been mostly demonstrated with reduced parameters,which greatly impact the predefined cloaking performance.Here,we report a general design strategy to realize full-parameter omnidirectional cloaks that can hide arbitrarily shaped objects in free space.Our approach combines a singular transformation with transformation-invariant metamaterials.The cloaking device with extreme parameters is implemented using a metallic array structure.In the experiment,two cloak samples are designed and fabricated,one with nondiscrete cloaking regions and the other with separated hidden regions.Near-unit transmission of electromagnetic waves with arbitrary incident angles is experimentally demonstrated along with significantly suppressed scattering.Our work challenges the prevailing paradigms of invisibility cloaks and provides deep insight into how transformation optics could be harnessed to obtain easily-accessible metadevices.
基金financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing(grant No.cstc2021jcyj-msxmX0028)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(grant No.2022CDJXY-011)。
文摘We present a numerical study on the penetration of spherical projectiles into a granular bed in the presence of upward gas flows.Due to the presence of interstitial fluid,the force chains between particles in the granular bed are weakened significantly,and this distinguishes the penetration behavior from that in the absence of fluid.An interesting phenomenon,namely granular jet,is observed during the penetration,and the mechanism for its formation and growth is attributed to the merging of granular vortices generated by the interaction between the intruder and primary particles.Moreover,both the final penetration depth and the maximum diameter of the crater are found to follow a power-law dependence with the impact velocity,and the maximum height reached by the granular jet tends to increase linearly as the impact velocity increases,agreeing well with the experimental results reported in the literature.
基金the support partly from the National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program(Overseas)of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62175212)+8 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11961141010,and 61975176)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11604095)Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Fund Key Project(Grant No.Z23F050009)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.2021FZZX001-19)Zhejiang University Global Partnership Fundthe support partly from the Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology(Grant Nos.2022YFA1404704,2022YFA1404902,and 2022YFA1405200)the support from the Israel Science Foundation(Grant No.3334/19)the Israel Science Foundation(Grant No.830/19)the Training Program for Excellent Young Innovators of Changsha(Grant No.kq2107013)。
文摘Effective-medium theory pertains to the theoretical modelling of homogenization,which aims to replace an inhomogeneous structure of subwavelength-scale constituents with a homogeneous effective medium.The effective-medium theory is fundamental to various realms,including electromagnetics and material science,since it can largely decrease the complexity in the exploration of light-matter interactions by providing simple acceptable approximation.Generally,the effective-medium theory is thought to be applicable to any all-dielectric system with deep-subwavelength constituents,under the condition that the effective medium does not have a critical angle,at which the total internal reflection occurs.Here we reveal a fundamental breakdown of the effective-medium theory that can be applied in very general conditions:showing it for deep-subwavelength all-dielectric multilayers even without a critical angle.Our finding relies on an exotic photonic spin Hall effect,which is shown to be ultrasensitive to the stacking order of deep-subwavelength dielectric layers,since the spin-orbit interaction of light is dependent on slight phase accumulations during the wave propagation.Our results indicate that the photonic spin Hall effect could provide a promising and powerful tool for measuring structural defects for all-dielectric systems even in the extreme nanometer scale.
文摘The van der Waals heterostructures with aperiodic stackings have been exploited to shape the spatiotemporal wavefront of free-electron X-ray radiation.
基金Chaoran Huang would like to thank Alexander Tait,Bhavin Shastri and Paul Prucnal for the fruitful discussions.J.J.D.acknowledges the support of the National Key Research and Development Project of China(2018YFB2201901)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61805090,62075075).
文摘Matrix computation,as a fundamental building block of information processing in science and technology,contributes most of the computational overheads in modern signal processing and artificial intelligence algorithms.Photonic accelerators are designed to accelerate specific categories of computing in the optical domain,especially matrix multiplication,to address the growing demand for computing resources and capacity.Photonic matrix multiplication has much potential to expand the domain of telecommunication,and artificial intelligence benefiting from its superior performance.Recent research in photonic matrix multiplication has flourished and may provide opportunities to develop applications that are unachievable at present by conventional electronic processors.In this review,we first introduce the methods of photonic matrix multiplication,mainly including the plane light conversion method,Mach–Zehnder interferometer method and wavelength division multiplexing method.We also summarize the developmental milestones of photonic matrix multiplication and the related applications.Then,we review their detailed advances in applications to optical signal processing and artificial neural networks in recent years.Finally,we comment on the challenges and perspectives of photonic matrix multiplication and photonic acceleration.
基金sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NNSFC)under Grants Nos.61625502,11961141010,and 61975176the Top-Notch Young Talents Programme of China+4 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central UniversitiesNanyang Technological University for NAP Start-Up Grantthe Singapore Ministry of Education(Grant Nos.MOE2018-T2-1-022(S),MOE2016-T3-1-006 and Tier 1 RG174/16(S))supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council(CSC No.201906320294)Zhejiang University Academic Award for Outstanding Doctoral Candidates.
文摘Optical logic operations lie at the heart of optical computing,and they enable many applications such as ultrahighspeed information processing.However,the reported optical logic gates rely heavily on the precise control of input light signals,including their phase difference,polarization,and intensity and the size of the incident beams.Due to the complexity and difficulty in these precise controls,the two output optical logic states may suffer from an inherent instability and a low contrast ratio of intensity.Moreover,the miniaturization of optical logic gates becomes difficult if the extra bulky apparatus for these controls is considered.As such,it is desirable to get rid of these complicated controls and to achieve full logic functionality in a compact photonic system.Such a goal remains challenging.Here,we introduce a simple yet universal design strategy,capable of using plane waves as the incident signal,to perform optical logic operations via a diffractive neural network.Physically,the incident plane wave is first spatially encoded by a specific logic operation at the input layer and further decoded through the hidden layers,namely,a compound Huygens’metasurface.That is,the judiciously designed metasurface scatters the encoded light into one of two small designated areas at the output layer,which provides the information of output logic states.Importantly,after training of the diffractive neural network,all seven basic types of optical logic operations can be realized by the same metasurface.As a conceptual illustration,three logic operations(NOT,OR,and AND)are experimentally demonstrated at microwave frequencies.
基金sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61625502, 11961141010, 61975176, and U19A2054)the Top-Notch Young Talents Program of China+1 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universitiessponsored by Singapore Ministry of Education under Grant Nos. MOE2018-T2-1-022 (S), MOE2015-T2-1-070, MOE2016-T3-1-006, and Tier 1 RG174/16 (S)
文摘Recent advances in non-radiative wireless power transfer(WPT)technique essentially relying on magnetic resonance and near-field coupling have successfully enabled a wide range of applications.However,WPT systems based on double resonators are severely limited to short-or mid-range distance,due to the deteriorating efficiency and power with long transfer distance.WPT systems based on multi-relay resonators can overcome this problem,which,however,suffer from sensitivity to perturbations and fabrication imperfections.Here,we experimentally demonstrate a concept of topological wireless power transfer(TWPT),where energy is transferred efficiently via the near-field coupling between two topological edge states localized at the ends of a one-dimensional radiowave topological insulator.Such a TWPT system can be modelled as a parity-time-symmetric Su-Schrieffer-Heeger(SSH)chain with complex boundary potentials.Besides,the coil configurations are judiciously designed,which significantly suppress the unwanted cross-couplings between nonadjacent coils that could break the chiral symmetry of the SSH chain.By tuning the inter-and intra-cell coupling strengths,we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate high energy transfer efficiency near the exceptional point of the topological edge states,even in the presence of disorder.The combination of topological metamaterials,non-Hermitian physics,and WPT techniques could promise a variety of robust,efficient WPT applications over long distances in electronics,transportation,and industry.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(11961141010,61625502,61975176,61975182,62071424)Top-Notch Young Talents Program of ChinaFundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities。
文摘Being invisible at will has been a long-standing dream for centuries, epitomized by numerous legends;humans have never stopped their exploration steps to realize this dream. Recent years have witnessed a breakthrough in this search due to the advent of transformation optics, metamaterials, and metasurfaces. However, the previous metasurface cloaks typically work in a reflection manner that relies on a high-reflection background, thus limiting the applications. Here, we propose an easy yet viable approach to realize the transmitted metasurface cloak, just composed of two planar metasurfaces to hide an object inside, such as a cat. To tackle the hard-to-converge issue caused by the nonuniqueness phenomenon, we deploy a tandem neural network(T-NN) to efficiently streamline the inverse design. Once pretrained, the T-NN can work for a customer-desired electromagnetic response in one single forward computation, saving a great amount of time. Our work opens a new avenue to realize a transparent invisibility cloak, and the tandem-NN can also inspire the inverse design of other metamaterials and photonics.
基金sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No.61625502,No.61322501,No.61574127,No.61575174,No.61601408,No.61550110245 and No.61275183the Top-Notch Young Talents Program of China+3 种基金the Program for New Century Excellent Talents(NCET-12-0489)in Universitythe Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universitiesthe Innovation Joint Research Center for Cyber-Physical-Society Systemthe support of the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China under Grant No.2015M581930.
文摘An invisibility cloak that can hide an arbitrary object external to the cloak itself has not been devised before.In this Letter,we introduce a novel way to design a remote cloaking device that makes any object located at a certain distance invisible.This is accomplished using multi-folded transformation optics to remotely generate a hidden region around the object that no field can penetrate and that does not disturb the far-field scattering electromagnetic field.As a result,any object in the hidden region can stay in position or move freely within that region and remain invisible.Our idea is further extended in order to design a remote illusion optics that can transform any arbitrary object into another one.Unlike other cloaking methods,this method would require no knowledge of the details of the object itself.The proposed multi-folded transformation optics will be crucial in the design of remote devices in a variety of contexts.
基金The work at Zhejiang University was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants nos.61625502,61574127,61601408,and 61801426the TopNotch Young Talents Program of China,the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,and the Innovation Joint Research Center for Cyber-Physical-Society System.Te work at Shandong University was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant no.61801268the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province under Grant no.ZR2018QF001.
文摘Moving electrons interacting with media can give rise to electromagnetic radiations and has been emerged as a promising platform for particle detection,spectroscopies,and free-electron lasers.In this letter,we investigate the Smith-Purcell radiation from helical metagratings,chiral structures similar to deoxyribonucleic acid(DNA),in order to understand the interplay between electrons,photons,and object chirality.Spiral feld patterns can be generated while introducing a gradient azimuthal phase distribution to the induced electric dipole array at the cylindrical interface.Experimental measurements show efcient control over angular momentum of the radiated feld at microwave regime,utilizing a phased electromagnetic dipole array to mimic moving charged particles.Te angular momentum of the radiated wave is determined solely by the handedness of the helical structure,and it thus serves as a potential candidate for the detection of chiral objects.Our fndings not only pave a way for design of orbital angular momentum free-electron lasers but also provide a platform to study the interplay between swif electrons with chiral objects.
基金The authors thank P.Rebusco at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for critical reading and editing of the manuscript.Work in Zhejiang University was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants no.61625502,no.61574127,no.61601408,no.61775193,and no.11704332the ZJNSF under Granta no.LY17F010008 and no.LY19F010015+1 种基金the Top-Notch Young Talents Program of China,the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,and the Innovation Joint Research Center for CyberPhysical-Society.Work at Ames Laboratory was partially supported by the U.S.Department of Energy,Ofce of Basic Energy Science,Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering(Ames Laboratory is operated for the U.S.Department of Energy by Iowa State University under Contract no.DEAC02-07CH11358)Te European Research Council under ERC Advanced Grant no.320081(PHOTOMETA)supported work at FORTH.
文摘An ideal transformation-based omnidirectional cloak always relies on metamaterials with extreme parameters,which were previously thought to be too difcult to realize.For such a reason,in previous experimental proposals of invisibility cloaks,the extreme parameters requirements are usually abandoned,leading to inherent scattering.Here,we report on the frst experimental demonstration of an omnidirectional cloak that satisfes the extreme parameters requirement,which can hide objects in a homogenous background.Instead of using resonant metamaterials that usually involve unavoidable absorptive loss,the extreme parameters are achieved using a nonresonant metamaterial comprising arrays of subwavelength metallic channels manufactured with 3D metal printing technology.A high level transmission of electromagnetic wave propagating through the present omnidirectional cloak,as well as signifcant reduction of scattering feld,is demonstrated both numerically and experimentally.Our work may also inspire experimental realizations of the other full-parameter omnidirectional optical devices such as concentrator,rotators,and optical illusion apparatuses.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(62005237)National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFB2801801).
文摘All-optical modulators with ultrahigh speed are in high demand due to the rapid development of optical interconnection and computation. However, due to weak photon–photon interaction, the advancement of all-optical modulators is consequently hampered by the large footprint and high power consumption. In this work, the enhanced sensitivity around an exceptional point(EP) from parity-time(PT) symmetry theory is initiatively introduced into a nonlinear all-optical modulator design. Further, a non-Hermitian all-optical modulator based on PT symmetry is proposed, which utilizes the large Kerr nonlinearity from indium tin oxide(ITO) in its epsilon-near-zero(ENZ) region. The whole system is expected to operate around EP, giving rise to the advantages of nanoscale integration and large modulation depth. This presented modulator with high efficiency and high-speed all-optical control can be commendably extended to the design methodology of various nanostructures and further prompt the development of all-optical signal processing.
基金Top-Notch Young Talents Program of ChinaFundamental Research Funds for the Central UniversitiesNational Natural Science Foundation of China(11961141010,61625502,61975176,U19A2054)。
文摘Unconventional Weyl points with topological charges higher than 1 can transform into various complex unconventional Weyl exceptional contours under non-Hermitian perturbations.However,theoretical studies of these exceptional contours have been limited to tight-binding models.Here,we propose to realize unconventional Weyl exceptional contours in photonic continua—non-Hermitian anisotropic chiral plasma,based on ab initio calculation by Maxwell’s equations.By perturbing in-plane permittivity,an unconventional Weyl point can transform into a quadratic Weyl exceptional ring,a type I Weyl exceptional chain with one chain point,a type II Weyl exceptional chain with two chain points,or other forms.Realistic metamaterials with effective constitutive parameters are proposed to implement these unconventional Weyl exceptional contours.Our work paves a way toward exploration of exotic physics of unconventional Weyl exceptional contours in non-Hermitian topological photonic continua.
