{"title":"MR2P: Diffusion Model-Driven Pixelated-Antenna Inverse Design Framework Generalizable Across Extensible Electromagnetic Figures of Merit","authors":"Minje Kim;Euiho Shin;Hooyoung Kim;Taeyeong Yoon;Semin Lee;Jungsuek Oh","doi":"10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3719661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3719661","url":null,"abstract":"Electromagnetic (EM) inverse synthesis of pixelated antennas is a high-dimensional discrete problem that maps desired impedance and radiation responses to a fabrication-ready binary metallization layout. This paper introduces Multi-Response-to-Patch (MR2P), a conditional binary-diffusion framework that directly generates one-bit microstrip patch layouts from heterogeneous EM response specifications. Unlike full-wave or surrogate-assisted optimization pipelines that require a new search for each target, MR2P samples a binary layout through a single response-conditioned reverse process. The framework consists of a Multi-Response Encoder (MRE), pre-trained by a Multi-Response Masked AutoEncoder to embed broadband reflection coefficients <inline-formula><tex-math>$|S_{11}|$</tex-math></inline-formula> and frequency-wise <inline-formula><tex-math>$X$</tex-math></inline-formula>- and <inline-formula><tex-math>$Y$</tex-math></inline-formula>-polarized beam patterns into a unified latent sequence, and a Binary Diffusion Model (BDM), which denoises Bernoulli noise into a <inline-formula><tex-math>$32times 32$</tex-math></inline-formula> metal/void layout under cross-attention conditioning. Because the reverse process is defined directly on binary variables, no post-hoc thresholding is required. MR2P is trained on <inline-formula><tex-math>$24,mathrm{k}$</tex-math></inline-formula> HFSS-labeled one-bit layouts and evaluated by closed-loop full-wave re-simulation of generated layouts. Ablation studies verify the importance of the MRE pretraining, while artificial wideband and triple-band targets, nearest-neighbor comparisons, and a fabricated multi-response example demonstrate threshold-free, fabrication-ready inverse synthesis from quantitative EM specifications.","PeriodicalId":52176,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques","volume":"11 ","pages":"515-526"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149133460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physics-Informed LSTM-KAN Hybrid Framework for Efficient Electromagnetic Forward Modeling","authors":"Jian Chen;Liangshuai Guo;Hongxia Ye","doi":"10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3693555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3693555","url":null,"abstract":"Electromagnetic forward modeling often suffers from high computational cost and long simulation time. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a physics-informed spatiotemporal modeling framework that integrates the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) scheme with deep learning. The proposed model synergistically combines a long short-term memory (LSTM) network for capturing temporal dependencies with a Kolmogorov–Arnold network (KAN) that employs trainable activation functions, thereby enhancing the nonlinear representation of electromagnetic field. A residual loss derived from Maxwell's equations is used to enforce physical consistency and improves the prediction reliability under complex scenarios. By learning electromagnetic field distributions in key regions, the framework replaces conventional explicit iterations with efficient spatiotemporal extrapolation. Numerical examples of multiple scenarios demonstrate the accuracy and stability of the method. In a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) scenario, this method reduces the computational cost by about 77.0% compared with gprMax, while achieving comparable accuracy, which validates its computational efficiency.","PeriodicalId":52176,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques","volume":"11 ","pages":"348-359"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148443283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hoin Jung;Vinicius C. do Nascimento;Hongyang Liu;Xiaoqian Wang;Cheng-Kok Koh;Dan Jiao
{"title":"Generative Antenna Design With Accuracy, Diversity, and Explainability via Dynamic Pseudo-Labeling","authors":"Hoin Jung;Vinicius C. do Nascimento;Hongyang Liu;Xiaoqian Wang;Cheng-Kok Koh;Dan Jiao","doi":"10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3690046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3690046","url":null,"abstract":"We propose the Explainable and Automated Antenna Designer (EAAD), an AI framework composed of a regressor, generative designer, and explainer for automated antenna synthesis. By employing dynamic, regressor-guided pseudo-labeling, EAAD overcomes prior limitations like mode collapse and performance control issues common in generative methods. It generates a diverse set of novel antenna designs while ensuring high success rates, achieving 100% compliance with performance specifications in planar antennas and antennas-in-package design. We further develop a SHAP-based analysis to interpret the generated design, making the AI-based design explainable. The proposed EAAD has been applied to realistic antenna design in package. Comparisons with state-of-the-art techniques demonstrate its superior generative capability, while effectively balancing performance optimization with design diversity.","PeriodicalId":52176,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques","volume":"11 ","pages":"246-257"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148171652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
El Miloud Ar-Reyouchi;Saâdia Chabel;Omar Elmazria;Kamal Ghoumid
{"title":"Passenger-Aware Reduced-Order Digital Twin for Slice-Aware Fluidic Reconfigurable Automotive Antennas","authors":"El Miloud Ar-Reyouchi;Saâdia Chabel;Omar Elmazria;Kamal Ghoumid","doi":"10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3726355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3726355","url":null,"abstract":"Future connected vehicles require antennas that remain reliable under service-dependent electromagnetic requirements and time-varying in-cabin loading. This paper presents a passenger-aware reduced-order digital twin for slice-aware fluidic reconfigurable automotive antennas. Its computational contribution is a confidence-aware prediction-and-state-selection framework that couples conductive-fluid antenna states, snapshot-based reduced prediction, passenger-induced dielectric loading, explicit acceptance/defer rules, and service-dependent state selection. The active slice is mapped to impedance, bandwidth, realized gain, angular coverage, pattern stability, and, where applicable, isolation and envelope correlation. Validation uses eight fluidic states, four passenger scenarios, and 41 frequency samples. Within the sampled interpolation domain, the method yields a reflection-coefficient RMSE of 0.19 dB, a radiation-pattern RMSE of 0.31 dB, and pattern correlation above 0.99. Extrapolative, experimental, real-time, and hardware-robustness claims are not made. Runtime acceleration is not quantified because reproducible hardware metadata and raw solver logs were unavailable.","PeriodicalId":52176,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques","volume":"11 ","pages":"481-493"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148985781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigation of Sidelobe Characteristics in 1-Bit Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Considering Practical Unit Cell Non-Idealities","authors":"Sudeb Bhattacharya;Aakash;Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava","doi":"10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3736468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3736468","url":null,"abstract":"This letter presents a systematic investigation of sidelobe levels in the radiation pattern of 1-bit Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS). Both theoretical analysis, based on algebraic formulations, and numerical evaluations using full-wave electromagnetic simulations are employed to study the effects of non-ideal unit cell responses. The analysis begins with the design of an ideal RIS phase profile for a given reflection angle, assuming perfect binary phase states. Subsequently, deviations in magnitude and phase responses are introduced to simulate practical non-idealities. Results show that such imperfections can significantly alter sidelobe characteristics, including increased levels and shifted angular positions. To validate the analysis, a 1-bit RIS unit cell was designed to operate at 4.7 GHz. Numerical analysis confirm that non-ideal amplitude and phase variations can indeed elevate sidelobe levels, emphasizing the importance of accurate unit cell design and mutual coupling in practical RIS implementation.","PeriodicalId":52176,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques","volume":"11 ","pages":"538-542"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149131062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient Finite Element Modeling of Conformal Frequency-Selective Surface Radomes Using Rotational Symmetry","authors":"Jingwei Wang;Yanlin Zou;Yuntian Chen;Kun Liang","doi":"10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3691296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3691296","url":null,"abstract":"Conformal Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) radomes have become increasingly crucial in modern radar systems due to their excellent band-pass characteristics and ability to reduce radar cross-section (RCS). The accurate simulation of the conformal radome requires large computational resources due to their electrically large size and complex geometric structure. In this article, an efficient finite element modeling method based on the first principles of symmetry is proposed, applying it to the electromagnetic simulation of conformal FSS radomes exemplified by <inline-formula><tex-math>$c_{N}$</tex-math></inline-formula> rotational symmetry. Utilizing projection operators from group theory, the method decomposes excitations into sub-excitations that adhere to the symmetry. This approach is versatile, extending beyond single rotational symmetry to accommodate any spatial symmetries and their combinations, thus surpassing the discrete Fourier expansion method’s capabilities. The technique significantly reduces the degrees of freedom (DOFs) to <inline-formula><tex-math>$1/N$</tex-math></inline-formula> of the original size, thus enhancing computational efficiency and simplifying geometric modeling and mesh complexity. With the proposed method, key metrics of conformal radomes, such as the RCS and transmittance/reflectance, can be effectively evaluated, thus supporting the design of conformal FSS radomes with arbitrary high rotational symmetry.","PeriodicalId":52176,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques","volume":"11 ","pages":"226-236"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148003411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Damiano Franzò;Ilias I Giannakopoulos;Adrien Merlini;Francesco Andriulli;Riccardo Lattanzi
{"title":"Comparative Assessment of Graglia-Wilton-Peterson and Rao-Wilton-Glisson Basis Functions for Radiofrequency Coil Modeling in Magnetic Resonance Imaging","authors":"Damiano Franzò;Ilias I Giannakopoulos;Adrien Merlini;Francesco Andriulli;Riccardo Lattanzi","doi":"10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3697593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3697593","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate modeling of radiofrequency (RF) coils is essential for reliable electromagnetic (EM) field simulations in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This study evaluates the numerical accuracy of higher-order surface basis functions for RF coil simulation within the surface–volume integral equation (SVIE) framework. Graglia–Wilton–Peterson (GWP) basis functions and quadratic curvilinear triangular discretization elements replace the conventional Rao–Wilton–Glisson (RWG) basis functions and flat triangular elements used to approximate the coil currents. SVIE simulations show that the solver based on GWP achieves up to two orders of magnitude lower error in the electric field distribution within the coil load for coils without open edges, while no significant performance improvements were observed for coils with open edges. These results demonstrate that higher-order formulations are needed for accurate RF coil modeling in certain scenarios.","PeriodicalId":52176,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques","volume":"11 ","pages":"286-290"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148236226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wenjie Ding;Xinyi Y. I. Xu;Guoda Xie;Xingang Ren;Yingsong Li;Wei E. I. Sha;Zhixiang Huang
{"title":"Efficient Simulation of Doppler-Broadened Rydberg Quantum Receivers via Monte Carlo Wave Functions","authors":"Wenjie Ding;Xinyi Y. I. Xu;Guoda Xie;Xingang Ren;Yingsong Li;Wei E. I. Sha;Zhixiang Huang","doi":"10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3707907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3707907","url":null,"abstract":"Theoretical modeling of Rydberg atom-based microwave sensors is often limited by the high computational cost of the density matrix formalism (DMF), especially when resolving transient dynamics in Doppler-broadened vapor cells. We introduce an efficient direct time-domain numerical framework based on the Monte Carlo Wave Function (MCWF) method for Doppler-broadened Rydberg-atom simulations. By incorporating the Doppler effect as a stochastic initialization parameter within individual quantum trajectories, our approach naturally captures thermal broadening, thereby avoiding explicit velocity-grid integration in the MCWF calculation. This reformulates the propagation from a density-matrix representation whose state dimension scales quadratically with the number of levels to a trajectory-based wave-function representation with linear state dimension for each propagated trajectory. We demonstrate that this framework achieves nearly one order of magnitude reduction in runtime under comparable AT-splitting extraction accuracy, while maintaining agreement with the DMF results for the considered observables. The method is further applied to representative time-domain signal-recovery scenarios, including baseband symbol recovery for 8-ary amplitude-shift keying (8-ASK) signals. This work provides a scalable tool for designing and optimizing next-generation Rydberg quantum receivers.","PeriodicalId":52176,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques","volume":"11 ","pages":"379-388"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148486944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rank-Limiting Strategies for Optimizing Tensor-Train Finite-Difference Time-Domain Simulations","authors":"Jacob A. Scherzer;Fernando L. Teixeira","doi":"10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3707057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3707057","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce rank-limiting strategies to optimize tensor-train decompositions for three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain simulations using the relationship between the tensors and their specific dimensionality. These include the use of hard caps on the inner ranks of the tensor train decomposition and the use of a group rounding algorithm taking into account all field components simultaneously. Several numerical examples are considered to verify the efficacy of the proposed optimization strategies.","PeriodicalId":52176,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques","volume":"11 ","pages":"389-399"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148626983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Tandem Neural Network-Based Inverse Modeling Method for Fast and Accurate Estimation of Electromagnetic Model Parameters","authors":"Kaan Kula;Tufan Coşkun Karalar","doi":"10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3707296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMMCT.2026.3707296","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a neural network method is proposed for better estimation of simulation material parameters. Such improved estimations increase the accuracy of EM simulations. Estimating simulation material parameters from an electrical response is an ill-posed problem since multiple parameter combinations can exhibit almost the same electrical response. Such problems can be more effectively addressed by specific neural network topologies, such as tandem neural networks. Hence, a solution following this approach is proposed. As an example, the substrate model parameters of the cascaded T-resonators and the Beatty resonator are estimated using their scattering parameters. The proposed approach supports a wide range of microwave structures through a structure-independent training data generation process. As an alternative to the proposed tandem neural network that combines convolutional, transposed convolutional and fully connected neural networks, a second tandem neural network employing only fully connected neural networks was also realized as a reference model and the performance of the two is compared. The performance of the two is evaluated using synthetic test data obtained from EM simulations. The mean squared error of the proposed model is approximately <inline-formula><tex-math>$0.5 times 10^{-3}$</tex-math></inline-formula>, which is significantly lower than that of the reference model. The proposed method can be applied to measurement-based modeling, de-embedding fixture effects at high frequencies, production lot monitoring, among others.","PeriodicalId":52176,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques","volume":"11 ","pages":"494-502"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149033490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}