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- Title
Programmable Acoustic Metasurfaces.
- Authors
Tian, Zhenhua; Shen, Chen; Li, Junfei; Reit, Eric; Gu, Yuyang; Fu, Hai; Cummer, Steven A.; Huang, Tony Jun
- Abstract
Metasurfaces open up unprecedented potential for wave engineering using subwavelength sheets. However, a severe limitation of current acoustic metasurfaces is their poor reconfigurability to achieve distinct functions on demand. Here a programmable acoustic metasurface that contains an array of tunable subwavelength unit cells to break the limitation and realize versatile two‐dimensional wave manipulation functions is reported. Each unit cell of the metasurface is composed of a straight channel and five shunted Helmholtz resonators, whose effective mass can be tuned by a robust fluidic system. The phase and amplitude of acoustic waves transmitting through each unit cell can be modulated dynamically and continuously. Based on such mechanism, the metasurface is able to achieve versatile wave manipulation functions, by engineering the phase and amplitude of transmission waves in the subwavelength scale. Through acoustic field scanning experiments, multiple wave manipulation functions, including steering acoustic waves, engineering acoustic beams, and switching on/off acoustic energy flow by using one design of metasurface are visually demonstrated. This work extends the metasurface research and holds great potential for a wide range of applications including acoustic imaging, communication, levitation, and tweezers. A programmable acoustic metasurface composed of fluid‐actuated tunable subwavelength unit cells is reported. All the unit cells can be dynamically and independently modulated through a robust fluidic system to achieve versatile functions, including steering acoustic waves, engineering acoustic beams, and switching on/off acoustic energy flow. The proposed metasurface offers a programmable, continuous, and efficient method for acoustic wave manipulation.
- Subjects
HELMHOLTZ resonators; ACOUSTICAL engineering; SOUND waves; UNIT cell; WAVE functions; ACOUSTIC field
- Publication
Advanced Functional Materials, 2019, Vol 29, Issue 13, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1616-301X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/adfm.201808489