Publications

Fabry-Pérot quasinormal modes for topological edge states

M. Sabaté, B. Vial, R. Wiltshaw, S. Guenneau, R. Craster

Phys. Rev. B 113, L140102

doi:10.1103/1hy4-j86q

On the practicability of ceramic-tiled walls for sound absorption by tuning cavities

O. Tugut, B. Lemkalli, Q. Ji, J. Wang, M. Addouche, B. Vial, E. Magarotto, S. Guenneau, R. Craster, F. Minozzi, B. Ungureanu, M. Kadic

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 482 (2345), 20260361

doi:10.1098/rspa.2026.0361

Quasinormal modes of Floquet media slabs

B. Vial, R. Craster

Phys. Rev. B 112, 214201

doi:10.1103/xxnd-7d55

Quasinormal mode expansion in thin elastic plates

B. Vial, M. Martí Sabaté, R. Wiltshaw, S. Guenneau, R. Craster

Phys. Rev. B 110, 174305

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.110.174305

High-Frequency Homogenization for Periodic Dispersive Media

M. Touboul, B. Vial, R. Assier, S. Guenneau, R. Craster

Multiscale Modeling & Simulation, 1136–1168

doi:10.1137/23M159648X

Isospectral open cavities and gratings

S. Cominelli, B. Vial, S. Guenneau, R. Craster

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 480 (2290), 20230853

doi:10.1098/rspa.2023.0853

Topology Optimization of a Thermal Cloak in the Frequency Domain

B. Vial, S. Guenneau, Y. Hao

AIP Advances 13 (8), 085111

doi:10.1063/5.0156411

Open-Source Computational Photonics with Auto Differentiable Topology Optimization

B. Vial, Y. Hao

Mathematics 10 (20)

doi:10.3390/math10203912

Optimization and experimental validation of a bi-focal lens in the microwave domain

B. Vial, T. Whittaker, S. Zhang, W. Whittow, Y. Hao

AIP Advances 12 (2), 025103

doi:10.1063/5.0074062

High frequency meta-ferroelectrics by inverse design

B. Vial, Y. Hao

Opt. Mater. Express 11 (5), 1457

doi:10.1364/ome.424011

Enhanced tunability in ferroelectric composites through local field enhancement and the effect of disorder

B. Vial, Y. Hao

J. Appl. Phys. 126 (4), 044102

doi:10.1063/1.5101053

Direct manipulation of wave amplitude and phase through inverse design of isotropic media

Y. Liu, B. Vial, S. Horsley, T. Philbin, Y. Hao

New J. Phys. 19 (7), 073010

doi:10.1088/1367-2630/aa6c0c

Beam-Steering Performance of Flat Luneburg Lens at 60 GHz for Future Wireless Communications

R. Foster, D. Nagarkoti, J. Gao, B. Vial, F. Nicholls, C. Spooner, S. Haq, Y. Hao

Int. J. Antenn. Propag. 2017, 1-8

doi:10.1155/2017/7932434

Optimized microwave illusion device

B. Vial, M. Torrico, Y. Hao

Sci Rep 7 (1), 3929

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-04410-4

A class of invisible inhomogeneous media and the control of electromagnetic waves

B. Vial, Y. Liu, S.A.R. Horsley, T.G. Philbin, Y. Hao

Phys. Rev. B 94 (24), 245119

doi:10.1103/physrevb.94.245119

A coupling model for quasi-normal modes of photonic resonators

B. Vial, Y. Hao

J. Opt. 18 (11), 115004

doi:10.1088/2040-8978/18/11/115004

Topology optimized all-dielectric cloak: Design, performances and modal picture of the invisibility effect

B. Vial, Y. Hao

Opt. Express 23 (18), 23551

doi:10.1364/oe.23.023551

Design, fabrication and characterization of resonant metamaterial filters for infrared multispectral imaging

M. Commandré, B. Vial, S. Tisserand, L. Roux, H. Dallaporta, F. Bedu, G. Demésy, A. Nicolet, F. Zolla

Thin Solid Films 592, 296-304

doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2015.04.026

Wafer Scale Formation of Monocrystalline Silicon-Based Mie Resonators via Silicon-on-Insulator Dewetting

M. Abbarchi, M. Naffouti, B. Vial, A. Benkouider, L. Lermusiaux, L. Favre, A. Ronda, S. Bidault, I. Berbezier, N. Bonod

ACS Nano 8 (11), 11181-11190

doi:10.1021/nn505632b

Transmission enhancement through square coaxial aperture arrays in metallic film: When leaky modes filter infrared light for multispectral imaging

B. Vial, M. Commandré, G. Demésy, A. Nicolet, F. Zolla, F. Bedu, H. Dallaporta, S. Tisserand, L. Roux

Opt. Lett. 39 (16), 4723

doi:10.1364/ol.39.004723

Quasimodal expansion of electromagnetic fields in open two-dimensional structures

B. Vial, F. Zolla, A. Nicolet, M. Commandré

Phys. Rev. A 89 (2), 023829

doi:10.1103/physreva.89.023829

Resonant metamaterial absorbers for infrared spectral filtering: Quasimodal analysis, design, fabrication, and characterization

B. Vial, G. Demésy, F. Zolla, A. Nicolet, M. Commandré, C. Hecquet, T. Begou, S. Tisserand, S. Gautier, V. Sauget

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31 (6), 1339

doi:10.1364/josab.31.001339

Absorption in quantum electrodynamic cavities in terms of a quantum jump operator

V. Debierre, G. Demésy, T. Durt, A. Nicolet, B. Vial, F. Zolla

Phys. Rev. A 90 (3), 033806

doi:10.1103/physreva.90.033806

Adaptive perfectly matched layer for Wood's anomalies in diffraction gratings

B. Vial, F. Zolla, A. Nicolet, M. Commandré, S. Tisserand

Opt. Express 20 (27), 28094

doi:10.1364/oe.20.028094

Gratings: Theory and Numeric Applications

T. Antonakakis, F. Baida, A. Belkhir, K. Cherednichenko, S. Cooper, R. Craster, G. Demésy, J. Desanto, G. Granet, B. Gralak, S. Guenneau, D. Maystre, A. Nicolet, B. Stout, F. Zolla, B. Vial, E. Popov

edited by E. Popov, ISBN 978-2-8539-9860-4

hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00785737

Coupled model for the study of effective parameters of ferroelectric metamaterials

B. Vial, Y. Hao

2019 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 1-4, Krakov, Poland

ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8739263

Tailoring near and Far Electromagnetic Fields Through Optimization

B. Vial, Y. Hao

12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2018), London, United Kingdom

doi:10.1049/cp.2018.0651

Scattering free graded index profiles and the control of electromagnetic fields

B. Vial, Y. Liu, S. Horsley, T. Philbin, Y. Hao

2017 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 361–363, Paris, France

doi:10.23919/eucap.2017.7928537

Quasi-modal analysis of segmented waveguides

A. Nicolet, G. Demesy, F. Zolla, B. Vial

2014 IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements & Applications (CAMA), 1-4, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France

doi:10.1109/cama.2014.7003327

3D FEM Quasimodal Analysis of the Haroche QED Cavity

B. Vial, G. Demésy, F. Zolla, A. Nicolet

Nineteenth COMPUMAG Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, Budapest, Hungary

Perfectly matched layers via transformation electromagnetism for the computation of quasi-modes

A. Nicolet, F. Zolla, B. Vial, G. Demesy, M. Commandre

2012 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, Cape Town, South Africa, Contributed talk

doi:10.1109/iceaa.2012.6328596

Transformation optics PML and quasi-mode analysis: Application to diffraction gratings

B. Vial, André Nicolet, Frédéric Zolla, G. Demésy, M. Commandré, Stéphane Tisserand

TaCoNa-Photonics 1475, 89-91, Bad Honnef, Germany, Contributed talk

doi:10.1063/1.4750105

Resonances determination in microstructured films embedded in multilayered stacks

B. Vial, M. Commandré, F. Zolla, A. Nicolet, S. Tisserand

Advances in Optical Thin Films IV, Marseille, France, Poster session

doi:10.1117/12.897347

Analysis of diffraction gratings via their resonances

B. Vial, M. Commandré, Frédéric Zolla, André Nicolet, Stéphane Tisserand, D. Chigrin

TaCoNa-Photonics 1398, 109-111, Bad Honnef, Germany, Contributed talk

doi:10.1063/1.3644228

Topology optimization of electromagnetic devices: numerical implementation and applications

B. Vial

The 13th International Symposium on Electric and Magnetic Fields (EMF 2023), Marseille, France, Invited talk

Auto-differentiable Computational Photonics and its application to optimization

B. Vial, Y. Hao

13th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2023), PAris, France

High-frequency Homogenization of Dispersive Media

M. Touboul, B. Vial, R. Assier, S. Guenneau, R.V. Craster

Phononics 2023: 6th International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Metamaterials/Metasurfaces, Phonon Transport, Topological Phononics, Manchester, UK

Modeling and optimization of discrete phononic lattices

B. Vial, R.V. Craster

Phononics 2023: 6th International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Metamaterials/Metasurfaces, Phonon Transport, Topological Phononics, Manchester, UK

Optimizing photonic devices: open-source implementation of auto-differentiable numerical methods

B. Vial

International Workshop on Optical Wave & Waveguide Theory and Numerical Modelling (OWTNM 2023), Marseille, France, Invited talk

Effective parameters of ferroelectric-dielectric mixtures

B. Vial, Y. Hao

Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Rome, Italy

Electromagnetic waves control and manipulation by metasurfaces

L. La Spada, B. Vial, Y. Hao

Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Singapore

Study of graded index metamaterials: Transparency and control of electromagnetic waves

B. Vial, Y. Hao

International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, Marseille, France

A class of invisible graded index profiles and the control of electromagnetic waves

B. Vial, Y. Liu, S. Horsley, T. Philbin, Y. Hao

International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, Chania, Greece

A mode coupling model for meta-molecules

B. Vial, Y. Hao

International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, Oxford, United Kingdom

Optimization of metamaterials for microwave devices

B. Vial, Y. Hao

Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic

Nanofabrication of optical structures (filters, resonators and sensors)

F. Bedu, N. Bonod, M. Commandre, B. Demirdjian, C. Henry, A. Karapetyan, I. Ozerov, J. Proust, A. Ranguis, B. Vial

4th National Days On Emerging Technologies in Micronanofabrication, Lyon, France

Exact PML and the numerical computation of quasi-modes in electromagnetic open structures

B. Vial, A. Nicolet, F. Zolla, G. Demésy

2nd Radio and Antenna Days of the Indian Ocean (RADIO), Mauritius, Contributed talk

Analysis of diffraction gratings via their quasi-modes

B. Vial, M. Commandré, F. Zolla, A. Nicolet, G. Demésy, S. Tisserand

XXII Symposium on Electromagnetic Phenomena in Nonlinear Circuits (EPNC), Pula, Croatia, Contributed talk

Mathematical modelling and optimization of photonic metamaterials

B. Vial

British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Bristol, UK

Topology Optimization of Electromagnetic Metamaterials

B. Vial

MetaMAT Weekly Seminars, Cassyni

doi:10.52843/meta-mat.r796ky

Auto-differentiable, open-source computational photonics

B. Vial

CNRS-Imperial Metamaterials conference, London, UK

Étude des modes à fuites dans les métamatériaux et application au filtrage multispectral dans l'infrarouge

B. Vial, G. Demésy, F. Zolla, M. Commandré, A. Nicolet

Seminar, LPN, Marcoussis, France, Contributed talk

Les modes à fuites en électromagnétisme : Calcul, excitation et applications

B. Vial, G. Demésy, F. Zolla, M. Commandré, A. Nicolet

Seminar POEMS team, ENSTA Paritech, Palaiseau, France, Contributed talk

Analyse quasimodale de structures électromagnétiques périodiques et non-périodiques

B. Vial, G. Demésy, F. Zolla, M. Commandré, A. Nicolet

Colloque National Métamatériaux, Orsay, France, Poster session

Comment tordre la lumière à sa guise grâce à des métamatériaux

F. Zolla, B. Vial, A. Nicolet, B. Guizal, D. Felbacq

Colloque National Métamatériaux, Orsay, France, Contributed talk

Engineering eigenmodes in open microstructured resonators for far infrared filtering applications

B. Vial, F. Zolla, A. Nicolet, M. Commandré, S. Tisserand

Workshop on Metallic Nano Objects, Saint-Étienne, France, Poster session

Analyse spectrale de réseaux de diffraction par la méthode des éléments finis : Décomposition modale du champ électromagnétique diffracté

B. Vial, F. Zolla, A. Nicolet, M. Commandré, S. Tisserand

NUMELEC, Marseille, France, Contributed talk

Quasimodes in open electromagnetic systems

B. Vial, A. Nicolet, F. Zolla, M. Commandré, S. Tisserand

Scientific coffee, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France

Développement de filtres multi-spectraux dans l'infrarouge à base de structures plasmoniques

B. Vial, A. Nicolet, F. Zolla, M. Commandré, S. Tisserand

Colloque National Métamatériaux, Orsay, France, Poster session

Study of open electromagnetic resonators by modal approach. Application to infrared multispectral filtering

B. Vial

Ecole Centrale Marseille

tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00918651/file/these_Benjamin_Vial.pdf

nannos: Fourier modal method for multilayered metamaterial with automatic differentiation

B. Vial

gitlab

nannos.gitlab.io

protis: Plane Wave Expansion method for photonic crystals

B. Vial

gitlab

protis.gitlab.io

refidx: Python package to retrieve the refractive index of material from the refractiveindex.info database

B. Vial

gitlab

benvial.gitlab.io/refidx

coaxtract: Permittivity extraction for multilayer stacks using an open-ended coaxial probe

B. Vial

gitlab

benvial.gitlab.io/coaxtract

cpwxtract: Tools for extracting material properties from coplanar waveguide measurements

B. Vial

gitlab

benvial.gitlab.io/cpwxtract

gyptis: Computational Photonics in Python with the finite element method

B. Vial

gitlab

doi:10.5281/zenodo.4732324

tdsxtract: Tools for material parameters extraction from THz time domain spectroscopy measurements

B. Vial

github

tdsxtract.github.io/tdsxtract