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20132026
most citedExperimental demonstration of a multiphysics cloak: manipulating heat flux and electric current simultaneously

260 citations · 581 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

physics.optics2026

Breaking the trade-off between invisibility and sensitivity in electromagnetic sensing

Yichao Liu, Jiaxue Zhou, Weifeng Han +6

Weak electromagnetic signals demand highly sensitive sensors, yet increasing a sensor's sensitivity inevitably strengthens its interaction with the surrounding field, producing sca…

physics.optics2026

Topological-Charge-Enabled Photonic Doping in ENZ Media

Zhicheng Xiong, Fei Sun, Weiqi Yuan +4

Conventional photonic doping schemes predominantly employ circular or rectangular dielectric dopants with zero topological charge, where the effective permeability can only be tune…

physics.optics2026

Cloaking of Arbitrarily Shaped Large-Scale Objects Through the Injection of Electromagnetic Invisibility Genes

Zirui Xie, Fei Sun, Yichao Liu +3

Full-space electromagnetic invisibility mainly includes light-bending and scattering-cancellation cloaking. Light-bending cloaking causes double-blind phenomenon and is incompatibl…

physics.app-ph2026

Decoupling heat and electricity: A thermal invisible gateway

Jiahao Li, Fei Sun, Yichao Liu +4

The Wiedemann-Franz law couples electrical and thermal conductivity, making high electrical conduction with low thermal conduction a major challenge. To overcome this, we designed…

physics.optics2026

Deep Learning-Enabled Invisible Electromagnetic Scattering Amplifier

Qike Xie, Qin Liao, Xiaofan Ji +2

With the rapid development of micro-electro-mechanical systems, electrically small micro-targets, such as subwavelength micro unmanned aerial vehicles and bionic mosquito robots, e…

physics.optics2026

True Bound States in the Continuum in Compact All-Dielectric Structures

Yiyun Yan, Yichao Liu, Fei Sun +1

Bound states in the continuum (BICs), known for their theoretically infinite quality (Q) factors and strong field localization, hold great promise for high-performance photonic dev…

physics.optics2025

Broadband Simultaneous Beam Steering and Compressing Device Based on Subwavelength Protrusion Metallic Tunnels

Dongguo Zhang, Fei Sun, Qin Liao +2

Beam steering and beamwidth compressing play a role in steering the beam and narrowing its half-power beamwidth, respectively, which are both widely applied in extending the effect…

physics.app-ph2025

Thermal superscatterer: amplification of thermal scattering signatures for arbitrarily shaped thermal materials

Yichao Liu, Yawen Qi, Fei Sun +7

The concept of superscattering is extended to the thermal field through the design of a thermal superscatterer based on transformation thermodynamics. A small thermal scatterer of…

physics.optics2025

Implementation of ultra-broadband optical null media via space-folding

Yichao Liu, Jiale Li, Fei Sun +3

Optical null medium (ONM) has garnered significant attention in electromagnetic wave manipulation. However, existing ONM implementations suffer from either narrow operational bandw…

physics.optics2025

Broadband source-surrounded cloak for on-chip antenna radiation pattern protection

Hanchuan Chen, Fei Sun, Yichao Liu +3

As the frequency range of electromagnetic wave communication continues to expand and the integration of integrated circuits increases, electromagnetic waves emitted by on-chip ante…

cs.CE2024★ 3 cited

Ultra-broadband acoustic absorber based on periodic acoustic rigid-metaporous composite array

Dongguo Zhang, Fei Sun, Yichao Liu

To address the increasingly serious issue of noise pollution, we propose an ultra-broadband and wide-angle acoustic absorber based on a periodic acoustic rigid-metaporous composite…

physics.app-ph2024★ 4 cited

Broadband planar electromagnetic hyper-lens with uniform magnification in air

Ran Sun, Fei Sun, Hanchuan Chen +2

A planar hyper-lens, capable of creating sub-wavelength imaging for broadband electromagnetic wave, is designed based on electromagnetic null medium. Subsequently, a scheme for the…

physics.gen-ph2024★ 12 cited

Experimental demonstration of a thermal-EM concentrator for enhancing EM signals and converging heat fluxes simultaneously

Hanchuan Chen, Yichao Liu, Fei Sun +3

Simultaneously concentrating EM waves and heat fluxes to the same target region within an on-chip system carries substantial academic research importance and practical application…

physics.app-ph2024★ 4 cited

Tunable uniform field enhancement in a subwavelength air pillar by photonic doping in epsilon-near-zero medium

Fei Sun, Jinyuan Shan, Yichao Liu

In this study, a novel electric field compressor is proposed by doping a metal-air-metal pillar in epsilon-near-zero medium within a metallic waveguide, which effectively enhances…

physics.app-ph2023★ 11 cited

On-chip omnidirectional electromagnetic-thermal cloak

Yichao Liu, Hanchuan Chen, Gang Zhao +1

Simultaneously guiding electromagnetic waves and heat flow at any incidence angle to smoothly bypass some electromagnetic/thermal sensitive elements is a key factor to ensure effic…

physics.app-ph2023★ 47 cited

Simultaneously realizing thermal and electromagnetic cloaking by multi-physical null medium

Yichao Liu, Xiaomin Ma, Kun Chao +6

Simultaneously manipulating multiple physical fields plays an important role in the increasingly complex integrated systems, aerospace equipment, biochemical productions, etc. For…

physics.gen-ph2022★ 21 cited

Active thermal metasurfaces for remote heating/cooling by mimicking negative thermal conductivity

Yichao Liu, Kun Chao, Fei Sun +3

Remote temperature control can be obtained by a long-focus thermal lens that can focus heat fluxes into a spot far away from the back surface of the lens and create a virtual therm…

physics.gen-ph2017★ 15 cited

An acoustic metamaterial lens for acoustic point-to-point communication in air

Fei Sun, Shuwei Guo, Borui Li +2

Acoustic metamaterials have become a novel and effective way to control sound waves and design acoustic devices. In this study, we design a 3D acoustic metamaterial lens (AML) to a…

physics.optics2015★ 74 cited

Three-dimensional magnetic cloak working from DC to 250 kHz

Jianfei Zhu, Wei Jiang, Yichao Liu +4

Invisible cloaking is one of major outcomes of the metamaterial research, but the practical potential, in particular for high frequencies (e.g., microwave to visible light), is fat…

physics.class-ph2014★ 260 cited

Experimental demonstration of a multiphysics cloak: manipulating heat flux and electric current simultaneously

Yungui Ma, Yichao Liu, Muhammad Raza +2

In past years, triggered by their successful realizations in electromagnetics, invisible cloaks have experienced rapid development and have been widely pursued in many different fi…

physics.class-ph2014★ 22 cited

An efficient plate heater with uniform surface temperature engineered with effective thermal materials

Yichao Liu, Wei Jiang, Sailing He +1

Extended from its electromagnetic counterpart, transformation thermodynamics applied to thermal conduction equations can map a virtual geometry into a physical thermal medium, real…

physics.optics2013★ 56 cited

Experimentally demonstrated an unidirectional electromagnetic cloak designed by topology optimization

Lu Lan, Fei Sun, Yichao Liu +2

Electromagnetic invisible devices usually designed by transformation optics are rather complicated in material parameters and not suitable for general applications. Recently a topo…

physics.optics2013★ 52 cited

First experimental demonstration of an isotropic electromagnetic cloak with strict conformal mapping

Yungui Ma, Yichao Liu, Lu Lan +4

In the past years quasi-conformal mapping has been typically used to design broadband electromagnetic cloaks. However, this technique has some inherit practical limitations such as…