Optical, Acoustic/Elastic, Thermal, and Nanophononic Metamaterials I

Presentations

• Fabrication of Nanostructures for Diffractive Optical Elements on Polyimide Membranes

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 17, 2026, 8:12 AM

  Publication: Howe, L., Rajapaksha, T. D., et al. (2024). High-Efficiency Multilevel Phase Lenses with
  Nanostructures on Polyimide Membranes. Advanced Optical Materials, 12(25), 2400847
  https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202400847

  Presenters

  • Tharindu Rajapaksha

    • Virginia Tech

  Authors

  • Tharindu Rajapaksha

    • Virginia Tech

  • Vinh Nguyen

    • Virginia Tech

  • Kalani Ellepola

    • Virginia Tech

  • Leslie Howe

  • John Leckey

  • David Macdonnell

  • Minh Nguyen

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• Direct Measurement of Topological Invariants and Nonlinear-Coupling-Induced Multistability in Actively Modulated Acoustic Cavity Systems

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 8:12 AM – March 17, 2026, 8:24 AM

  Publication: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 134, 136601 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Zhaoxian Chen

    • Nanjing University

  Authors

  • Zhaoxian Chen

    • Nanjing University

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• Compact Photonic Topological Devices via Wrapped Edge-State Architectures ​​​​​​

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 8:24 AM – March 17, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Stephan Wong

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  Authors

  • Stephan Wong

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Simon Betzold

  • Sven Hofling

  • Alexander Cerjan

    • Sandia National Laboratories

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• Harnessing Coherence from Incoherent Radiation with Guided Wave Metastructures

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 17, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Harry Atwater

    • California Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Harry Atwater

    • California Institute of Technology

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• Dynamic light manipulation with atomically thin metasurfaces

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 17, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Publication: [1] M. L. Brongersma, The road to atomically thin metasurface optics. Nanophotonics. 10, 643–654 (2021).
  [2] J. Van De Groep, J. Song, U. Celano, Q. Li, P. G. Kik, M. L. Brongersma, Exciton resonance tuning of an atomically thin lens. Nat. Photonics. 14, 426–432 (2020).
  [3] O. B. Aslan, M. Deng, M. L. Brongersma, T. F. Heinz, Strained bilayer WSe2 with reduced exciton-phonon coupling. Phys. Rev. B. 101, 115305 (2020).
  [4] Q. Li, J. Song, F. Xu, J. Van De Groep, J. Hong, A. Daus, et al., A Purcell-enabled monolayer semiconductor free-space optical modulator. Nat. Photonics (2023).
  [5] Melissa Li, Qitong Li, Mark L. Brongersma, and Harry A. Atwater, "Optical devices as thin as atoms," Science, 386, 1226–1228, 2024.

  Presenters

  • Mark Brongersma

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Mark Brongersma

    • Stanford University

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• Deep Learning for the Inverse Design of Non-Hermitian Photonic Structures

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Mohammed Elaouni

    • Saint Louis University

  Authors

  • Mohammed Elaouni

    • Saint Louis University

  • El Houssaine El Boudouti

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• Real-Time Edge Dynamics of Non-Hermitian Lattices

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Publication: arXiv:2503.11505

  Presenters

  • Chen Fang

    • Chinese Academy of Sciences

  Authors

  • Chen Fang

    • Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Tian-Hua Yang

    • Princeton University

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• Topological Origin of Polarization-Controlled Wavefront Modulation

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Publication: [1] P. Genevet, F. Capasso, F. Aieta, M. Khorasaninejad, and R. Devlin, Recent advances in planar optics: from plasmonic to dielectric metasurfaces, Optica 4, 139 (2017).
  [2] J. Li, A. Jana, Y. Yuan, K. Zhang, S. N. Burokur, and P. Genevet, Exploiting hidden singularity on the surface of the poincar´e sphere, Nature Communications 16, 5953 (2025).
  [3] E. Arbabi, S. M. Kamali, A. Arbabi, and A. Faraon, Vectorial holograms with a dielectric metasurface: ultimate polarization pattern generation, ACS Photonics 6, 2712 (2019).
  [4] A. Zaidi, N. A. Rubin, M. L. Meretska, L. W. Li, A. H. Dorrah, J.-S. Park, and F. Capasso, Metasurface-enabled single-shot and complete mueller matrix imaging, Nature Photonics 18, 704 (2024).

  Presenters

  • Aloke Jana

    • Colorado School of Mines

  Authors

  • Aloke Jana

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Le Zhou

  • Patrice Genevet

    • colorado school of mines

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• Flat Band Engineering in Gigahertz Surface Acoustic Wave Metamaterials

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Michelle Liu

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Michelle Liu

    • Harvard University

  • Philip Shenk

  • Zeyu Ma

  • Federico Maccagno

  • Harris Pirie

  • Jennifer Hoffman

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• Seismic Reflection, Slowness Surface, and Energy Partition Analysis in Functionally Graded Anisotropic Media with Imperfect Boundaries

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • AKANKSHA SRIVASTAVA

    • Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico UNAM

  Authors

  • AKANKSHA SRIVASTAVA

    • Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico UNAM

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