Development and progress in acoustic phase-gradient metamaterials for wavefront modulation

J Guo, Y Fang, R Qu, X Zhang - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Acoustic metamaterials (AMs) for sound wave manipulation have attracted significant
attention due to their fascinating functionalities, such as anomalous reflection/refraction …

Acoustic focusing and imaging via phononic crystal and acoustic metamaterials

F Ma, Z Huang, C Liu, JH Wu - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The effective operation of certain electronic, medical, industrial, and testing equipment relies
on high-quality focusing and imaging capability, which also plays a vital role in the field of …

[HTML][HTML] Research progress and development trends of acoustic metamaterials

H Song, X Ding, Z Cui, H Hu - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Acoustic metamaterials are materials with artificially designed structures, which have
characteristics that surpass the behavior of natural materials, such as negative refraction …

Broadband tunable acoustic asymmetric focusing lens from dual-layer metasurfaces

J **a, X Zhang, H Sun, S Yuan, J Qian, Y Ge - Physical Review Applied, 2018 - APS
We report both experimentally and numerically that a broadband acoustic lens with
asymmetric focusing is realized by dual-layer metasurfaces in air. The acoustic waves can …

Acoustic focusing by symmetrical self-bending beams with phase modulations

H Gao, Z Gu, B Liang, X Zou, J Yang, J Yang… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We propose a scheme for generating high-efficient acoustic focusing capable of
circumventing obstacles in the propagating medium. This distinct feature that is highly …

Broadband sound focusing with tunable focus based on reconfigurable acoustic coding metagrating

Y Bai, A Song, C Sun, Y **ang, FZ Xuan - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we propose a reconfigurable acoustic coding metagrating composed of
rotatable open-ended round tubes for realizing broadband sound focusing with tunable …

Broadband controllable acoustic focusing and asymmetric focusing by acoustic metamaterials

G Liao, Z Wang, C Luan, J Liu, X Yao… - Smart Materials and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The applications of acoustic focusing and acoustic asymmetric focusing (AAF) are severely
constrained by the narrow frequency bandwidth. In this paper, we report broad bandwidth …

Broadband integrative acoustic asymmetric focusing lens based on mode-conversion meta-atoms

J Qian, Y Wang, J **a, Y Ge, S Yuan, H Sun… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Acoustic asymmetric focusing (AAF) has a great potential application in medical ultrasound
imaging, focused ultrasound therapy, and nondestructive testing. The advancement of …

Three-dimensional ultrasound subwavelength arbitrary focusing with broadband sparse metalens

X Jiang, JJ He, CX Zhang, HL Zhao, WQ Wang… - Science China Physics …, 2022 - Springer
Ultrasound focusing in three-dimensional (3D) space is of crucial and enduring significance
in a variety of biomedical and industrial applications. Conventional ultrasound focusing …

Enhancing ultrasound transmission and focusing through a stiff plate with inversely optimized auxiliary meta-lens

H Gao, Z Gu, S Liang, T Liu, J Zhu, Z Su - Applied Physics Letters, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Effective sound energy transmission and beam manipulation through stiff and dense
materials such as metal remain daunting tasks. It is in part attributable to the vast impedance …