flâneur

AI accelerates the discovery of metamaterials vital for next-gen gadgets | IBM Research Blog

research.ibm.com · 1,423 words · saved by 1 readers

In a recent Nature Computational Materials paper, we describe how AI helps to find the ideal configuration of nanopatterned materials for the best optical design.

Remember H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man? The protagonist, a scientist researching optics, managed to make a body’s refractive index the same as that of air, meaning it neither reflected or absorbed light – and made himself invisible. That was sci-fi in 1897 — but research into artificial materials with optical properties not found in naturally-occurring materials started around the same time. Dubbed metamaterials, they were finally engineered decades later. Applications of such optical structures include ultra-compact sensors, imaging and spectroscopy devices used in mobile phone cameras…

saved by

related reading