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Increasing sensitivity and signal to noise ratios of conventional wave sensors is an interesting topic in structural health monitoring, medical imaging, aerospace and nuclear instrumentation. Here, we report the concept of a gradient…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-27 Y. Y. Chen , R. Zhu , M. V. Barnhart , G. L. Huang

Acoustic metamaterials have become a novel and effective way to control sound waves and design acoustic devices. In this study, we design a 3D acoustic metamaterial lens (AML) to achieve point-to-point acoustic communication in air: any…

General Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Fei Sun , Shuwei Guo , Borui Li , Yichao Liu , Sailing He

Electromagnetic waves in vacuum and most materials have transverse polarization. Longitudinal electromagnetic waves with electric field parallel to wave vector are very rare and appear under special conditions in a limited class of media,…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-29 Denis Sakhno , Eugene Koreshin , Pavel A. Belov

With the application of surface acoustic wave (SAW) of 39.5 MHz to a model polymer liquid film,polyisobutylene, deposited on the solid substrates, the liquid film is densified, proved by the decrease of film thickness and the increase of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Tianhao Hou , Jingfa Yang , Wen Wang , Jiang Zhao

The challenge of achieving effective sound insulation using metamaterials persists in the field. In this research endeavor, a novel three-layer membrane-type acoustic metamaterial is introduced as a potential solution. Through the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Jun Lan , Yumin Zhou , Xin Bu , Yifeng Li

By considering the membrane's dissipation, the membrane-type acoustic metamaterial (MAM) has been demonstrated as a super absorber for low-frequency sound. In the paper, a theoretical vibroacoustic plate model is developed to reveal sound…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Yangyang Chen , Xiaoming Zhou , Gengkai Hu , Chin-Teh Sun , Guoliang Huang

Among its many outstanding properties, graphene supports terahertz surface plasma waves -- sub-wavelength charge density oscillations connected with electromagnetic fields that are tightly localized near the surface[1,2]. When these waves…

The diverse applications of whispering gallery modes in spherical microresonators are strongly related to the sphere size and material composition. Their design should therefore be optimized to ensure that parameters such as the quality…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-21 Lorena Velazquez-Ibarra , Juan Barranco

Controlling stray light at millimeter wavelengths requires special optical design and selection of absorptive materials that should be compatible with cryogenic operating environments. While a wide selection of absorptive materials exists,…

Metamaterials are arrangement of basic building blocks that repeat in space, time, or both. These material systems serve as an excellent platform for controlling waves, such as engineering wavenumber band gaps, flat bands, and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Mohamed A. Elgamal , Osama R. Bilal

We have measured the relative permeability of split-ring resonator (SRR) arrays used in metamaterials designed to have $\mu^\prime< 0$ over a narrow range of microwave frequencies. The SRR arrays were loaded into the bore of a loop-gap…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Sabrina L. Madsen , Jake S. Bobowski

Metamaterials have great potential to construct ultrathin, miniaturized, and cost-effective microwave and optical devices for future wireless communication systems. Here, a dual-band meta-absorber comprising four arrows-shaped unit cells is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Amjad Nadeem

Planar metamaterials with tailorable electromagnetic properties in the terahertz domain offer customized optics solutions that are needed for the development of imaging and spectroscopy systems. In particular, metamaterials carry the…

Metal-coated microsphere monolayers (MCM) are a class of plasmonic crystals consisting of noble metal films over arrays of self-assembled colloidal microspheres. Despite their ease of fabrication and tunable plasmonic response, their…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-30 Cosmin Farcău

We report terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (TDTS) experiments demonstrating strong light-matter coupling in a terahertz (THz) LC-metamaterial in which the phonon resonance of a topological insulator (TI) thin film is coupled to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Sirak M. Mekonen , Deepti Jain , Seongshik Oh , N. P. Armitage

A unified homogenization procedure for split ring metamaterials taking into account time and spatial dispersion is introduced. The procedure is based on two coupled systems of equations. The first one comes from an approximation of the…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-10 J. D. Baena , L. Jelinek , R. Marques , M. Silveirinha

Developments in metamaterials and related structures such as metasurfaces have opened up new possibilities in designing materials and devices with unique properties. The main progress related to electromagnetic waves applications was done…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Rita Schmidt , Alexey Slobozhanyuk , Pavel Belov , Andrew Webb

Engineering plasmonic metamaterials with anisotropic optical dispersion enables us to tailor the properties of metamaterial-based waveguides. We investigate plasmonic waveguides with dielectric cores and multilayer metal-dielectric…

In this paper, we describe the manifestation of localized states through coherent and incoherent analyses of a diffuse elastic wavefield inside a two-dimensional metamaterial made of a collection of vertical long beams glued to a thin…

Backward Lamb waves, which exhibit a group velocity that propagates in the opposite direction to their phase velocity, have recently garnered considerable attention for their potential applications in nondestructive testing. Herein we…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Zhongtao Hu , Guo-Yang Li , Hanyin Cui