Acoustic focusing and imaging via phononic crystal and acoustic metamaterials

Acoustic and elastic metamaterials

We will review some of the recent advances in the field of acoustic and elastic metamaterials. These research fields became hot topics in last few years with an increasing number of papers that grows almost exponentially. The interest on these artificial structures arouses because of their potential application in designing novel devices for sound and vibration control. Their applications cover...

Manipulating the Acoustic Wave by Acoustic Metamaterials

Our research efforts concentrate on focusing photon and sound into sub-wavelength scales. While we emphasize on new insights of material and device design from fundamental approaches, we also actively pursue the applications of our technology in the areas of nanofabrication, energy conversion, communication, and biomedical imaging. Acoustic metamaterials promise new applications for steering an...

Negative Refraction of Acoustic Waves in a Two-Dimensional Phononic Crystal via FDTD Simulation

Negative refraction of acoustic waves in a two-dimensional (2D) phononic crystal is studied by numerical simulation based on the finitedifference time-domain (FDTD) method. We calculate the phonon band structure of 2D phononic crystals, consisting of metal cylinders placed periodically in a liquid. By comparing several combinations of materials for metal cylinder and liquid, we analyze the depe...

Tunable active acoustic metamaterials

We describe and demonstrate an architecture for active acoustic metamaterials whose effective material parameters can be tuned independently over a wide range of values, including negative material parameters. The approach is demonstrated experimentally through the design and measurement of two types of unit cells that generate metamaterials in which either the effective density or bulk modulus...

Optical and acoustic sensing using Fano-like resonances in dual phononic and photonic crystal plate