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We demonstrate that the metamaterial perfect absorber behaves as a meta-cavity bounded between a resonant metasurface and a metallic thin-film reflector. The perfect absorption is achieved by the Fabry-Perot cavity resonance via multiple…

The use of cylindrical elastic shells as elements in acoustic metamaterial devices is demonstrated through simulations and underwater measurements of a cylindrical-to-plane wave lens. Transformation acoustics (TA) of a circular region to a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Alexey S. Titovich , Michael R. Haberman , Andrew N. Norris

Here we apply the optical nanocircuit concepts to design and analyze in detail a three-dimensional (3-D) plasmonic nanotransmission line network that may act as a negative-refraction broadband metamaterial at infrared and optical…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-07-04 Andrea Alu , Nader Engheta

We present an ultra broadband thin-film infrared absorber made of saw-toothed anisotropic metamaterial. Absorbtivity of higher than 95% at normal incidence is supported in a wide range of frequencies, where the full absorption width at half…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Yanxia Cui , Kin Hung Fung , Jun Xu , Hyungjin Ma , Yi Jin , Sailing He , Nicholas X. Fang

We demonstrate, for the first time, a spatially dependent metamaterial perfect absorber operating in the infrared regime. We achieve an experimental absorption of 97% at a wavelength of 6.0 microns, and our results agree well with numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Xianliang Liu , Tatiana Starr , Anthony Starr , Willie J. Padilla

Metamaterials are a new generation of advanced materials, exhibiting engineered microstructures that enable customized material properties not found in nature. The dynamics of metamaterials are particularly fascinating, promising the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Charles Dorn , Vignesh Kannan , Ute Drechsler , Dennis M. Kochmann

Underwater localization is essential for marine exploration and autonomous underwater operations, yet existing radio frequency and optical approaches are limited by rapid attenuation or limited visibility. Acoustic sensing remains the most…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Junling Wang , Yi Guo , Bojun Yang , Yazhou Yuan , Zhenlin An

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…

We report theoretical and experimental results for a new type of homogenized acoustic metamaterials with negative effective mass density. We constructed one-dimensional metamaterial, which is a tube with an array of very thin elastic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-30 Sam Hyeon Lee , Choon Mahn Park , Yong Mun Seo , Zhi Guo Wang , Chul Koo Kim

Frequency Band of 0.5 THz to 1.1 THz (WR1.5 and WR1) is one of the promising bands when it comes to 6G. In this paper, we propose a novel metamaterial absorber suitable to be used at lower WR1 frequencies in TE mode. Alternatively, the…

This work presents a new design for broadband absorption of low-frequency acoustic waves using a thin coating made of subwavelength acoustic resonators arranged periodically on a reflective surface. We first study the associated scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Habib Ammari , Yu Gao , Lara Vrabac

The scattering of waves is a ubiquitous phenomenon in physics, yet there are numerous scenarios, such as the pursuit of invisibility, where suppressing it is of utmost importance. In comparison to prior methods which are restricted by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Chenkai Liu , Chu Ma , Yun Lai , Nicholas X. Fang

Metasurfaces formed of arrays of subwavelength resonators are often tuned to 'critically couple' with incident radiation, so that at resonance dissipative and radiative damping are balanced and absorption is maximised. Such design criteria…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Ory Schnitzer , Rodolfo Brandão

By designing tailor-made resonance modes with structured atoms, metamaterials allow us to obtain constitutive parameters outside their limited range from natural or composite materials. Nonetheless, tuning the constitutive parameters relies…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Choonlae Cho , Xinhua Wen , Namkyoo Park , Jensen Li

Gradient acoustic metasurfaces have shown strong potential for manipulation of acoustic waves across the audible and ultrasonic frequency ranges. The key challenge in designing acoustic metasurfaces is to create a series of sub-wavelength…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Dingcheng Yang , Yan Kei Chiang , David Powell

Based on our previous work, we propose a homogenized model of acoustic waves propagating through periodically perforated elastic plates with metamaterial properties due to embedded arrays of soft elastic inclusions serving for resonators.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-03 Eduard Rohan , Vladimír Lukeš

Accomplishing a wide elastic wave bandgap with single phase constituent is of primary interest in developing phononic metamaterials. In the present article, exploiting spatial periodicity, a single phase lattice is configured towards…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Nitish Kumar , Siladitya Pal

Membrane-type Acoustic Metamaterials (MAMs) have demonstrated unusual capacity in controlling low-frequency sound transmission/reflection. In this paper, an analytical vibroacoustic membrane model is developed to study sound transmission…

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

We study lightweight, elastic metamaterials consisting of tensegrity-inspired prisms, which present wide, low-frequency band gaps. For their realization, we alternate tensegrity elements with solid discs in periodic arrangements that we…

We present experimental demonstration of electronically tunable metamaterial perfect absorbers in the terahertz regime. By incorporation of active liquid crystal into strategic locations within the metamaterial unit cell we are able to…

Optics · Physics 2013-04-29 David Shrekenhamer , Wen-Chen Chen , Willie J. Padilla