Deep Neural Operator Enabled Concurrent Multitask Design for Multifunctional Metamaterials under Heterogeneous Fields

Abstract

Multifunctional metamaterials (MMM) bear promise as next-generation material platforms supporting miniaturization and customization. Despite many proof-of-concept demonstrations and the proliferation of deep learning assisted design, grand challenges of inverse design for MMM, especially those involving heterogeneous fields possibly subject to either mutual meta-atom coupling or long-range interactions, remain largely under-explored. To this end, we present a data-driven design framework, which streamlines the inverse design of MMMs involving heterogeneous fields. A core enabler is implicit Fourier neural operator (IFNO), which predicts heterogeneous fields distributed across a metamaterial array, thus in general at odds with homogenization assumptions, in a parameter-/sample-efficient fashion. Additionally, we propose a standard formulation of inverse problem covering a broad class of MMMs, and gradient-based multitask concurrent optimization identifying a set of Pareto-optimal architecture-stimulus (A-S) pairs. Fourier multiclass blending is proposed to synthesize inter-class meta-atoms anchored on a set of geometric motifs, while enjoying training-free dimension reduction and built-it reconstruction. Interlocking the three pillars, the framework is validated for light-bylight programmable plasmonic nanoantenna, whose design involves vast space jointly spanned by quasi-freeform supercells, maneuverable incident phase distributions, and conflicting figure-of-merits involving on-demand localization patterns. Accommodating all the challenges without a-priori simplifications, our framework could propel future advancements of MMM.

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