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- Title
Soft 3D acoustic metamaterial with negative index.
- Authors
Brunet, Thomas; Merlin, Aurore; Mascaro, Benoit; Zimny, Kevin; Leng, Jacques; Poncelet, Olivier; Aristégui, Christophe; Mondain-Monval, Olivier
- Abstract
Many efforts have been devoted to the design and achievement of negative-refractive-index metamaterials since the 2000s. One of the challenges at present is to extend that field beyond electromagnetism by realizing three-dimensional (3D) media with negative acoustic indices. We report a new class of locally resonant ultrasonic metafluids consisting of a concentrated suspension of macroporous microbeads engineered using soft-matter techniques. The propagation of Gaussian pulses within these random distributions of 'ultra-slow' Mie resonators is investigated through in situ ultrasonic experiments. The real part of the acoustic index is shown to be negative (up to almost − 1) over broad frequency bandwidths, depending on the volume fraction of the microbeads as predicted by multiple-scattering calculations. These soft 3D acoustic metamaterials open the way for key applications such as sub-wavelength imaging and transformation acoustics, which require the production of acoustic devices with negative or zero-valued indices.
- Subjects
METAMATERIALS; ACOUSTIC devices; PHOTONIC crystals; MULTIPLE scattering (Physics); ELECTROMAGNETISM; THREE-dimensional imaging
- Publication
Nature Materials, 2015, Vol 14, Issue 4, p384
- ISSN
1476-1122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nmat4164