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Spatial tailoring of the material constitutive properties is a well-known strategy to mold the local flow of given observables in different physical domains. Coordinate-transformation-based methods (e.g., transformation optics) offer a…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-14 Massimo Moccia , Giuseppe Castaldi , Salvatore Savo , Yuki Sato , Vincenzo Galdi

The structural complexity of metamaterials is limitless, although in practice, most designs comprise periodic architectures which lead to materials with spatially homogeneous features. More advanced tasks, arising in e.g. soft robotics,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-03 Corentin Coulais , Eial Teomy , Koen de Reus , Yair Shokef , Martin van Hecke

In scientific inquiry of small scale energy and transition events, the effect of an observer on the measurement can be substantial. Similarly, the methods of observation can create entirely different understandings of the system behavior,…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-13 Michael C. Kobold

In nature, most materials are composed of atoms with periodic structures. Hence, it's impossible to introduce topological structures into their lattice compose, because the atoms as basic blocks cannot be modulated. However, the lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Wenjin Zhang , Ziyuan Meng , Zidong Zhang , Ke Bi , Runhua Fan , Yi Du , Weichang Hao

The dispersive wave propagation in a periodic metamaterial with tetrachiral topology and inertial local resonators is investigated. The Floquet-Bloch spectrum of the metamaterial is compared with that of the tetrachiral beam lattice…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-24 Andrea Bacigalupo , Giorgio Gnecco , Marco Lepidi , Luigi Gambarotta

Elastic metamaterials made from locally resonant arrays have been developed as effective ways to create band gaps for elastic or acoustic travelling waves. They work by implementing stationary states in the structure that localise and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Luca Iorio , Jacopo M. De Ponti , Alberto Corigliano , Raffaele Ardito

Space-time metamaterials, or materials with properties changing in space and time, have gained a wide-spread interest due to their exotic properties. In this Letter, we propose a novel temporal metasurface of phononic crystals in one and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Kshiteej J. Deshmukh

The progress of magnonics ultimately depends on material platforms that offer precise control of spin waves propagation. Here, we put forward a chemical strategy to create locally tunable magnonic crystals by integrating switchable…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-22 Andrei Shumilin , Sourav Dey , Denisa Coltuneac , Laurentiu Stoleriu , José J. Baldoví

In mechanical structures like airplanes, cars and houses, noise is generated and transmitted through vibrations. To take measures to reduce this noise, vibrations need to be simulated with expensive numerical computations. Deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jan van Delden , Julius Schultz , Christopher Blech , Sabine C. Langer , Timo Lüddecke

The ability to perform mathematical computations using metastructures is an emergent paradigm that carries the potential of wave-based analog computing to the realm of near-speed-of-light, low-loss, compact devices. We theoretically…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Dimitrios C. Tzarouchis , Brian Edwards , Nader Engheta

Metamaterials can be engineered with tunable bandgaps to adapt to dynamic and complex environments, particularly for controlling elastic waves and vibration. However, achieving wide-range, seamless, reversible, in-situ and robust tunability…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Xin Fang , Jihong Wen , Dianlong Yu , Peter Gumbsch , Huajian Gao

Exploring the dynamical response of mechanical metamaterials has gathered increasing attention in the last decades, enabling the design of microstructures exotically interacting with elastic waves (focusing, channeling, band-gaps, negative…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 Leonardo A. Perez Ramirez , Gianluca Rizzi , Angela Madeo

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

Piezoelectric elastic metamaterials offer the ability to overcome the fixed, narrow bandwidth characteristics of passive elastic metamaterials. Interesting ultrasonic band gaps exist in piezoelectric plate metamaterials with periodic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 David R. Schipf , Matthew D. Guild , Caleb F. Sieck

Acoustic metamaterials are artificial structures, often lattice of resonators, with unusual properties. They can be engineered to stop wave propagation in specific frequency bands. Once manufactured, their dispersive qualities remain…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Thomas Daunizeau , Sinan Haliyo , David Gueorguiev , Vincent Hayward

Galvanised by the emergent fields of metamaterials and topological wave physics, there is currently much interest in controlling wave propagation along structured arrays, and interfacial waves between geometrically different crystal…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 G. J. Chaplain , M. P. Makwana , R. V. Craster

The paper presents a novel concept of a 3D structural metasurface with mechanically morphing capability that can be used as a transmit- or reflect-array to manipulate electromagnetic beams for applications in RF sensing and communications…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 Aakash Bansal , William Whittow

Topological plasmonics offers new ways to manipulate light by combining concepts from topology and plasmonics, similar to topological edge states in photonics. However, designing such topological states remains challenging due to the…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-15 Fatemeh Davoodi

Conventional magnonic devices use three classes of magnetostatic waves that require detailed manipulation of magnetization structure that makes the design and the device/circuitry scalability difficult tasks. Here, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-04 X. S. Wang , H. W. Zhang , X. R. Wang

The challenge in reconfigurable manipulation of sound waves using metasurfaces lies in achieving precise control over acoustic behavior while developing efficient and practical tuning methods for structural configurations. However, most…