Owen Miller
@owendmiller
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Asst. Prof., Yale applied physics
New Haven, CT
Joined October 2012
We are recruiting a new tenure track / tenured faculty in Photonics at the Advanced Science Research Center @asrc_gc. Please consider applying and distributing to your network for interested applicants at all levels. https://t.co/5IyfZjFYMx
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New paper published in Optical Materials Express, with Theodoros Koutserimpas @tkoutserimpas, postdoc @CornellECE. Great collaboration with Hao Li and Prof. @owendmiller @Yale, as always! The paper was selected as an "Editor's Pick". https://t.co/Des8Y40yD4
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Excited that our paper "Many photonic design problems are sparse QCQPs" is out in Science Advances! https://t.co/kiUuJ292sf I am particularly excited about some of the ideas in this paper, and will try to write a thread summarizing some of them in the next few days.
science.org
Many photonic design problems can be reformulated in an unexpected way, leading to powerful techniques to identify better designs.
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"Scattering Bodies as Matrix-Valued Oscillators" - Our work led by @owendmiller on a new theoretical framework for scattering theory was highlighted in Optics & Photonics News' #Opticsin2024. @CornellECE See the original @NatureComms paper here:
Highlighted in OPN's #OpticsIn2024: A new framework for scattering theory that offers guidance on design questions, and a new representation via Drude–Lorentz oscillators with matrix-valued (spatially nonlocal) coefficients. https://t.co/8qNovceoev
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Excellent ideas in this paper
"The Spatial Complexity of Optical Computing and How to Reduce It," with Yandong Li. 6/6
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Collaborative paper led by David Miller (no relation) now out in Nature Photonics: https://t.co/dCYOeB1keK. Counting well-coupled waves in arbitrary volumes!
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Meet Logan Wright: mastermind of "laser brains" for neural networks & laser-wielding scibots for tireless discovery. Plus, he's a guitar shredder! Discover more about our rockstar applied physicist 🎸✨ https://t.co/XvaMTWqJfR
#YaleEngineering #OfficeHours #AppliedPhysics
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A new mathematical model for thermal energy transfer is expected to boost next-gen energy-harvesting technologies. More from @owendmiller at Yale’s Energy Sciences Institute: https://t.co/NOguV5jsSF
@NatureComms @AFOSR
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Our joint Roadmap for #metasurfaces paper led by A. Kuznetsov and M. Brongersma @BrongersmaMark is now published online! @albert_polman @ProfUrielLevy @NaderEngheta @andrea_alu @HarryAtwater and other contributing colleagues
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Hiring for postdoc who are enthusiastic in working on quantum light source generation and quantum sensing! This gonna be exciting, fun and challenging!!
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Really happy to have contributed to this collaboration on a suite of benchmark design problems for photonic inverse design. Hopefully this will make an impact on reproducibility in photonic inverse design research. Feel free to DM me if you want a PDF.
opg.optica.org
In this work, we present a reproducible suite of test problems for large-scale optimization (“inverse design” and “topology optimization”) in photonics, where the prevalence of irregular, non-intui...
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Many details and interesting connections in the paper, plus a somewhat lengthy conclusion in which we suggest forward-looking applications where this framework may be useful. Thanks to my fantastic student Lang and our collaborator @FMResearchGroup!
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2. This formulation allows us to resolve a question we have been thinking about for a long time: what is the maximum rate of near-field radiative heat transfer, between arbitrarily patterned bodies of any material?
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1. Typical scattered fields have seemingly random variations. But scattering “T” matrix elements have striking structure, as shown below. Such spectra resemble molecular susceptibilities (hence the name "oscillators"). But this structure is inherent to EM scattering itself!
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Happy to share our paper in Nat Comm: https://t.co/IOMzQJXtZD. In this work, we (with @FMResearchGroup) find surprising mathematical structure in electromagnetic scattering. We show that fundamental principles constrain allowable scattering matrices, with 2 consequences:
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My team at Google X is #hiring PhD residents (interns) for next year! Come help us build a photonic inverse design moonshot!
x.company
If you're an inventor, technologist, entrepreneur, or something in between, and you want to create things the world has never seen before, take a look at our open roles.
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Really excited for this Twitter space with Berkeley Professor Eli Yablonovitch tomorrow, a renaissance man with major scientific discoveries + several well known startups that made huge impacts in their fields. Tune in via your Ethertronics cell phone antenna to ask questions.
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We have lost one of the rising stars in the optical tweezer community. https://t.co/jWWvTNGZg2 Sadly his student was charged. I have sought out help from counsellors many times in my life, and so many in my group have as well to great benefit. If things seem bad, talk to someone.
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Negative optical torque is a counterintuitive optomechanical phenomenon that can emerge in light-assembled nanoparticle (NP) clusters (i.e., optical matter) under circular polarization. However, in...
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Going back to Boston for the #OpticaImaging23 Congress! On Tuesday, I will present our fast multi-channel solver, bounds on metasurface performance, and inverse designs that reach these bounds. On Wednesday, Zeyu will talk about deep-tissue imaging with digital wavefront shaping.
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Looking forward to giving this talk tomorrow at the Optica Imaging Congress #OpticaImaging23 Topical meeting on Flat Optics (10:30 am - Session "Fundamental Flat Optics and Metasurfaces") Thanks to the organizers for the kind invitation! @OpticaWorldwide
https://t.co/zi7w2V0MwH
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