Manipulation of transmitted wave front using ultrathin planar acoustic metasurfaces

Shilong Zhai, Huaijun Chen, Changlin Ding, Fangliang Shen, Chunrong Luo, Xiaopeng Zhao

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Abstract

Nowadays, the acoustic devices are developing toward miniaturization. However, conventional materials can hardly satisfy the requirements because of their large size and complex manufacturing process. The introduction of acoustic metasurfaces has broken these restrictions, as they are able to manipulate sound waves at will by utilizing ultrathin planar metamaterials. Here, a simple acoustic metasurface is designed and characterized, whose microstructure is constructed with a cavity filled with air and two elastic membranes on the ends of cavity. By appropriately optimizing the configurations of microstructures, the steering of transmitted wave trajectory is demonstrated, and some extraordinary phenomena are realized at 3.5 kHz, such as planar acoustic axicon, acoustic lens, the conversion from spherical waves to plane waves, and the transformation from propagating waves to surface waves.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1283-1289
Number of pages7
JournalApplied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing
Volume120
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 18 Sep 2015

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