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Topological phononic crystals (PCs) offer an innovative method for manipulating acoustic or elastic waves. In this study, we introduce the gradient PC structures with coupled interfaces, specifically designed to achieve topological rainbow…
Acoustic devices offer significant advantages in size and loss, making them ubiquitous for mobile radio frequency signal processing. However, the usable bandwidth is often limited to the achievable electromechanical coupling, setting a hard…
Acoustic metamaterials and phononic crystals represent a promising platform for the development of noise-insulating systems characterized by a low weight and small thickness. Nevertheless, the operational spectral range of these structures…
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Acoustic waves propagating through fluid media are significantly influenced by turbulence. This paper experimentally investigates the influence of underwater turbulence on the propagation characteristics of acoustic waves, revealing that…
Transmission through a subwavelength terahertz fiber, which is positioned in parallel to a frequency selective surface, is studied using several finite element tools. Both the band diagram technique and the port-based scattering matrix…
Acoustic waves can generate steady streaming within a fluid owing to the generation of viscous boundary layers near walls, of typical thickness $\delta$. In microchannels, the acoustic wavelength $\lambda$ is adjusted to twice the channel…
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The prospects of utilizing single-carrier (SC) and multi-carrier (MC) waveforms in future terahertz (THz)-band communication systems remain unresolved. On the one hand, the limited multi-path components at high frequencies result in…
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In these last years, many studies have focalized on the design of reliable underwater acoustic communication systems. However, the ocean acoustic communication channel exhibits strong amplitude and phase fluctuations and the phenomena of…
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