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Anisotropic Metamaterials for Transformation Acoustics and Imaging

  • Jensen Li*
  • , Zixian Liang
  • , Jie Zhu
  • , Xiang Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

    Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author)peer-review

    Abstract

    Metamaterials are becoming a prominent class of artificial materials that allow us to have very precise and specific optical properties. Its associated engineering flexibility opens up a wide range of applications and provides an effective route in molding the flow of energy. By drawing analogies between electromagnetic and acoustic wave frameworks, many concepts like invisibility cloaking and subwavelength imaging can be transplanted from electromagnetic to acoustic waves easily. However, we need quite different ways of constructing the artificial materials and devices for acoustics. Here, we show how anisotropic metamaterials can be constructed to control the constitutive parameters of the effective medium through positioning hard plates in different preferred directions. We will then use them to construct an acoustic carpet cloak, an acoustic hyperlens and a superlens as examples. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAcoustic Metamaterials
    Subtitle of host publicationAbsorption, Cloaking, Imaging, Time-Modulated Media, and Topological Crystals
    EditorsRichard Craster, Sébastien Guenneau
    Place of PublicationCham
    PublisherSpringer 
    Pages185-212
    ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-60015-9
    ISBN (Print)978-3-031-60014-2, 978-3-031-60017-3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2024

    Publication series

    NameSpringer Series in Materials Science
    Volume345
    ISSN (Print)0933-033X
    ISSN (Electronic)2196-2812

    Funding

    JL and ZL thank the support from the City University of Hong Kong (SRG grant number 7002598). JZ and XZ acknowledge support from the Office of Naval Research (grant number N00014-07-1-0626).

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