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Enabling Wide Bandwidth in Substrate-Integrated Waveguide Slot Antennas by Using Low-Index Metamaterials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Amir Jafargholi, Jalaledin Tayebpour

This paper presents a solution to overcome the inherently limited bandwidth of substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) slot antennas. It is analytically shown that by decreasing the permittivity of a dielectric loaded slot antenna, the resulting bandwidth inc ...

2024

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Mechanical metamaterials enable customizing the elastic properties of physical objects by altering their fine-scale structure. A broad gamut of effective material properties can be produced even from a single fabrication material by optimizing the geometry ...

2023

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Long and flexible arrays of nanowires find impactful applications in sensing, photonics, and energy harvesting. Conventional manufacturing relies largely on lithographic methods limited in wafer size, rigidity, and machine write time. Here, we report a sca ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

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Tunable metamaterials functionalities change in response to external stimuli. Mechanical deformation is known to be an efficient approach to tune the electromagnetic response of a deformable metamaterial. However, in the case of large mechanical deformatio ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Non-local oddities

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury

Introducing non-local effects to metamaterials increases the complexity of their dispersion relation, which allows carefully designed elastic structures to mimic the peculiar roton behaviour of correlated quantum superfluids. ...

2021

Oligomodal metamaterials with multifunctional mechanics

Aleksi Antoine Bossart

Mechanical metamaterials are artificial composites that exhibit a wide range of advanced functionalities such as negative Poisson's ratio, shape shifting, topological protection, multistability, extreme strength-to-density ratio, and enhanced energy dissip ...

NATL ACAD SCIENCES2021

Control-Free Mechanical Oscillator Powered by Shape Memory Alloys

Yves Perriard, Paolo Germano, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Sean Thomas

Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) based actuators have been commonly used in applications that require being compact and lightweight. In this paper, the inherent stiffness of a flexure-based linear guide is used to create a bias-spring SMA actuator which further re ...

IEEE2021

For this project, the goal is to design a flexure-based gripper mechanism actuated by a Shape-Memory Alloy spring (SMA) and to be mounted on a drone. While being complex to control precisely and having a very small bandwith, SMA actuators show a formidable ...

2021

Multi-Output Compliant Shape Memory Alloy Bias-Spring Actuators

Yves Perriard, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Adrien Jean-Michel Thabuis, Sean Thomas

Smart Materials such as Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) play a major role in creating Smart Actuators that are compact and high performing. Traditional SMA bias-spring actuators are only capable of a single linear output. Using topology optimization, compliant S ...

IEEE2020

Non-reciprocal manipulation of subwavelength fields in locally-resonant metamaterial crystals

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Farzad Zangeneh Nejad, Nadège Sihame Kaïna

Locally-resonant metamaterial crystals are artificial materials built from small spatially-local resonant inclusions arranged periodically at subwavelength scale. Unlike conventional continuous metamaterials, for which spatial dispersion originates mostly ...

2019