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A remarkable interest has been surrounding the area of innovative media, not necessarily encountered in nature, with unique and controllable properties that can trigger exciting physical phenomena and lead to promising engineering applications. Amid the most prominent representatives are, indubitably, metamaterials and graphene which have gained tremendous popularity as foremost breakthroughs for advanced microwave and optical designs. However, a considerable issue in the bulk production of these designs is the processing/fabrication cost of the involved media that is still very high. Considering that the mainstream of such devices is usually prone to many reconfigurations before their final form, the need for cost-effective simulation tools for fast and accurate estimations is of critical importance.

The principal aim of ACMIMS is twofold, including the development of highly precise and computationally efficient numerical methods as well as their application to novel realistic problems involving:

(a) 3-D volumetric metamaterials and their 2-D metasurface/metafilm renditions,
(b) arbitrary graphene-based structures of infinite/finite dimensions and graphene plasmonics,
(c) advanced micro-electromechanical systems for double-negative realizations and THz arrangements.

The new techniques will be, mainly, implemented in the time-domain and through optimally adjusted finite-difference-based schemes. A key feature of these methodologies is their iterative updating profile which supports parallelism and hence the notable decrease of the overall system requirements. Considering the important capabilities of the graphics processing units architecture, several algorithms will be parallelized to avoid sequential implementations and drastically accelerate the program code. In this manner, the excessive system requirements for the simulation of most contemporary applications will be successfully minimized, without the need for resorting to expensive investments.

ACMIMS is funded by the General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT), Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports, in the context of the Action “ARISTEIA”, under the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning”, which is co-funded by the European Social Fund and Greek Funds. It has started on the 27th of September 2012 and will last for 36 months, while its total project budget is 270.000€.