Tunable and active phononic crystals and metamaterials

YF Wang, YZ Wang, B Wu… - Applied …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Phononic crystals (PCs) and metamaterials (MMs) can exhibit abnormal properties, even far
beyond those found in nature, through artificial design of the topology or ordered structure of …

Near-zero refractive index photonics

I Liberal, N Engheta - Nature Photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Structures with near-zero parameters (for example, media with near-zero relative permittivity
and/or relative permeability, and thus a near-zero refractive index) exhibit a number of …

Controlling sound with acoustic metamaterials

SA Cummer, J Christensen, A Alù - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Acoustic metamaterials can manipulate and control sound waves in ways that are not
possible in conventional materials. Metamaterials with zero, or even negative, refractive …

Breaking the barriers: advances in acoustic functional materials

H Ge, M Yang, C Ma, MH Lu, YF Chen… - National Science …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Acoustics is a classical field of study that has witnessed tremendous developments over the
past 25 years. Driven by the novel acoustic effects underpinned by phononic crystals with …

Review and perspective on acoustic metamaterials: From fundamentals to applications

J Zhang, B Hu, S Wang - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In the past two decades, the research on acoustic metamaterials has flourished, which is
also benefited from the development of additive manufacturing technology. The exotic …

Systematic design and realization of double-negative acoustic metamaterials by topology optimization

HW Dong, SD Zhao, P Wei, L Cheng, YS Wang… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Double-negative acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) offer the promising ability of superlensing
for applications in ultrasonography, biomedical sensing and nondestructive evaluation …

Single-phase metamaterial plates for broadband vibration suppression at low frequencies

P Gao, A Climente, J Sánchez-Dehesa, L Wu - Journal of sound and …, 2019 - Elsevier
By studying platonic crystals based on lattices of cavities containing N-beam resonators, we
conclude that crystals made of 1-beam resonators easily produce low-frequency …

[HTML][HTML] Tunable acoustic metamaterial with an array of resonators actuated by dielectric elastomer

X Yu, Z Lu, F Cui, L Cheng, Y Cui - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Acoustic metamaterial comprising an array of resonators being attached to the side wall of a
rigid duct is investigated in this study. We propose a resonator design by employing a pre …

Tunable auxetic metamaterials for simultaneous attenuation of airborne sound and elastic vibrations in all directions

M Kheybari, C Daraio, OR Bilal - Applied Physics Letters, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Through a combination of analytical, numerical, and experimental methods, we study a three-
dimensional metamaterial with the ability to attenuate both airborne sound and mechanical …

Acoustic metamaterials in aeronautics

G Palma, H Mao, L Burghignoli, P Göransson… - Applied Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Metamaterials, man-made composites that are scaled smaller than the wavelength, have
demonstrated a huge potential for application in acoustics, allowing the production of sub …