Applied Physics
From first-principles modeling to device designs.
Our research in this area uses physics to develop new technologies or solve an engineering problem, including optimal design of freeform optics, metamaterials, photonic and solid-state semiconductor devices; the modeling and analysis of electro-magnetic systems and studies on superconductivity and magnets.
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EVENT MERL's Virtual Open House 2022 Date & Time: Monday, December 12, 2022; 1:00pm-5:30pm ET
Location: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)/Virtual
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Communications, Computational Sensing, Computer Vision, Control, Data Analytics, Dynamical Systems, Electric Systems, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Machine Learning, Multi-Physical Modeling, Optimization, Robotics, Signal Processing, Speech & Audio, Digital VideoBrief- Join MERL's virtual open house on December 12th, 2022! Featuring a keynote, live sessions, research area booths, and opportunities to interact with our research team. Discover who we are and what we do, and learn about internship and employment opportunities.
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NEWS Bingnan Wang gave seminar talk at WEMPEC in University of Wisconsin-Madison Date: October 28, 2022
MERL Contacts: Dehong Liu; Bingnan Wang; Jinyun Zhang
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Data Analytics, Multi-Physical ModelingBrief- MERL researcher Bingnan Wang gave seminar talk at Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC), which is recognized globally for its sustained contributions to electric machines and power electronics technology. He gave an overview of MERL research, especially on electric machines, and introduced our recent work on quantitative eccentricity fault diagnosis technologies for electric motors, including physical-model approach using improved winding function theory, and data-driven approach using topological data analysis to effectively differentiate signals from different fault conditions.
The seminar was given on Teams. MERL researchers Jin Zhang, Dehong Liu, Yusuke Sakamoto and Bingnan Wang held meetings with WEMPEC faculty members before the seminar to discuss various research topics, and met virtually with students after the talk.
- MERL researcher Bingnan Wang gave seminar talk at Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC), which is recognized globally for its sustained contributions to electric machines and power electronics technology. He gave an overview of MERL research, especially on electric machines, and introduced our recent work on quantitative eccentricity fault diagnosis technologies for electric motors, including physical-model approach using improved winding function theory, and data-driven approach using topological data analysis to effectively differentiate signals from different fault conditions.
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Internships
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SA1959: Metasurfaces for machine vision
We seek highly qualified candidates for research on co-design and optimization of metasurfaces and machine vision algorithms, with a particular interest in polarization. Strong candidates will have a background in metasurface optics, fluency with FDTD and RCWA simulation tools, and some familiarity with optimization methods used in computer vision and machine learning.
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Recent Publications
- , "Summary Report of International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) 2022," Tech. Rep. TR2023-013, MERL website, March 2023.BibTeX TR2023-013 PDF
- @techreport{Teo2023mar,
- author = {Teo, Koon Hoo},
- title = {Summary Report of International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) 2022},
- institution = {MERL website},
- year = 2023,
- month = mar,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-013}
- }
- , "Magnetic Cooling with Thin Peltier Modules as Thermal Switches", Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.170482, Vol. 570, pp. 170482, February 2023.BibTeX TR2023-006 PDF
- @article{Lin2023feb,
- author = {Lin, Chungwei},
- title = {Magnetic Cooling with Thin Peltier Modules as Thermal Switches},
- journal = {Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials},
- year = 2023,
- volume = 570,
- pages = 170482,
- month = feb,
- doi = {10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.170482},
- issn = {0304-8853},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-006}
- }
- , "Optimal Control of PDEs Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) workshop, December 2022.BibTeX TR2022-163 PDF
- @inproceedings{Mowlavi2022dec,
- author = {Mowlavi, Saviz and Nabi, Saleh},
- title = {Optimal Control of PDEs Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks},
- booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) workshop},
- year = 2022,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-163}
- }
- , "Spatio-Temporal Thermal Monitoring for Lithium-Ion Batteries via Kriged Kalman Filtering", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), DOI: 10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9992543, December 2022.BibTeX TR2022-162 PDF
- @inproceedings{Tu2022dec2,
- author = {Tu, Hao and Wang, Yebin and Li, Xianglin and Fang, Huazhen},
- title = {Spatio-Temporal Thermal Monitoring for Lithium-Ion Batteries via Kriged Kalman Filtering},
- booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
- year = 2022,
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9992543},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-162}
- }
- , "Optimal control of PDEs using physics-informed neural networks", Journal of Computational Physics, October 2022.BibTeX TR2022-143 PDF
- @article{Mowlavi2022oct,
- author = {Mowlavi, Saviz and Nabi, Saleh},
- title = {Optimal control of PDEs using physics-informed neural networks},
- journal = {Journal of Computational Physics},
- year = 2022,
- month = oct,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-143}
- }
- , "Topological Data Analysis for Image-based Machine Learning: Application to Electric Motors", IEEE International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), DOI: 10.1109/ICEM51905.2022.9910734, September 2022, pp. 1015-1021.BibTeX TR2022-113 PDF
- @inproceedings{Wang2022sep,
- author = {Wang, Bingnan and Talukder, Khaled and Sakamoto, Yusuke},
- title = {Topological Data Analysis for Image-based Machine Learning: Application to Electric Motors},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM)},
- year = 2022,
- pages = {1015--1021},
- month = sep,
- doi = {10.1109/ICEM51905.2022.9910734},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-113}
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- , "On-Orbit Fabrication of Spacecraft Structures by Direct Solar Photopolymerization", Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, July 2022, pp. 1676-1686.BibTeX TR2022-104 PDF
- @inproceedings{Yerazunis2022jul,
- author = {Yerazunis, William S. and Weiss, Avishai and Radyjowski, Patryk and Cottrell, Richard},
- title = {On-Orbit Fabrication of Spacecraft Structures by Direct Solar Photopolymerization},
- booktitle = {Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium},
- year = 2022,
- pages = {1676--1686},
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-104}
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- , "Trapping Phenomena in GaN HEMTs with Fe- and C-doped Buffer", Device Research Conference, DOI: 10.1109/DRC55272.2022.9855817, June 2022.BibTeX TR2022-086 PDF
- @inproceedings{Li2022jun2,
- author = {Li, Kexin and Matsuda, Takashi and Nishimura, Kunihiko and Yagyu, Eiji and Teo, Koon Hoo and Rakheja, Shaloo},
- title = {Trapping Phenomena in GaN HEMTs with Fe- and C-doped Buffer},
- booktitle = {Device Research Conference},
- year = 2022,
- month = jun,
- doi = {10.1109/DRC55272.2022.9855817},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-086}
- }
- , "Summary Report of International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) 2022," Tech. Rep. TR2023-013, MERL website, March 2023.
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Videos
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On-orbit 3D Printing Technology for Fabrication of Satellite Antennas
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[MERL Seminar Series Spring 2022] Analog CMOS Computing Chips for Fast and Energy-Efficient Solution of PDE Systems
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[MERL Seminar Series Spring 2022] Extreme optics design as a large-scale optimization problem
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[MERL Seminar Series 2021] Use the [Magnetic] Force for Good: Sustainability Through Magnetic Levitation
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Wireless Power Transfer based on Metamaterials
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Freeform Optics
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