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Metasurfaces, the ultrathin media with extraordinary wavefront modulation ability, have shown versatile potential in manipulating waves. However, existing acoustic metasurfaces are limited by their narrow-band frequency-dependent…

A broadband sound absorption attained by a deep-subwavelength structure is of great interest to the noise control community especially for extremely low frequencies (20-100 Hz) in room acoustics. Coupling multiple different resonant unit…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Jun Ji , Dongting Li , Yong Li , Yun Jing

Digital metasurfaces have attracted significant attention in recent years due to their ability to manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves for secure sensing and communication. However, most reported metasurfaces operate at relatively high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Longpan Wang , Zhuoran Zhang , Zhenyuan Li , Xuetao Gan , Xudong Bai , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu

In this paper, we propose a continuously tunable acoustic metasurface composed of identical anisotropic resonant units, each of which contains a rigid pedestal and a rotatable inclusion with space coiling-up structure. The metasurface can…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Haozhen Zou , Yanlong Xu , Pan Li , Pai Peng

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

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

We propose and demonstrate a compact acoustic retroreflector that reroutes probing signals back towards the source with minimal scattering. Gradient refractive index (GRIN) acoustic metamaterials, based on Archimedean spiral structures, are…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-24 Yangyang Fu , Junfei Li , Yangbo Xie , Chen Shen , Yadong Xu , Huanyang Chen , Steven A. Cummer

A novel metasurface unit cell architecture is proposed to enable independent control of the reflection magnitude and phase at a desired operation frequency, while maintaining linear polarization of the incoming fields. The proposed…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Ahmed Z. Ashoor , Shulabh Gupta

Metamaterials are composed of periodic subwavelength metal/dielectric structures that resonantly couple to the electric and/or magnetic components of the incident electromagnetic fields, exhibiting properties that are not found in nature.…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-29 Hou-Tong Chen , Antoinette J Taylor , Nanfang Yu

Sixth generation (6G) mobile networks may include new passive technologies, such as ambient backscatter communication or the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, to avoid the emission of waves and the corresponding energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Romain Fara , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Philippe Ratajczak , Abdelwaheb Ourir , Marco Di Renzo , Julien de Rosny

A general method, based on susceptibility tensors, is proposed for the synthesis of metasurfaces transforming arbitrary incident waves into arbitrary reflected and transmitted waves. The proposed method exhibits two advantages: 1)it is…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-27 Karim Achouri , Mohamed Ahmed Salem , Christophe Caloz

The mismatch of acoustic impedance at water-air interface can lead a low transmitted sound energy. In this paper, we propose a discrete metasurface for extreme sound transmission based on the impedance matching theory. By employing topology…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Shao-Cong Zhang , Hong-Tao Zhou , Xiao-Tong Gong , Yan-Feng Wang , Yue-Sheng Wang

Compared with conventional grating-based spectrometers, reconstructive spectrometers based on spectrally engineered filtering have the advantage of miniaturization because of the less demand for dispersive optics and free propagation space.…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-01 Weizhu Xu , Qingbin Fan , Peicheng Lin , Jiarong Wang , Hao Hu , Tao Yue , Xuemei Hu , Ting Xu

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

We introduce a practical dielectric metasurface design for microwave frequencies. The metasurface is made of an array of dielectric resonators held together by dielectric connections thus avoiding the need of a mechanical support in the…

Control of electromagnetic waves using engineered materials is very important in a wide range of applications, therefore there is always a continuous need for new and more efficient solutions. Known natural and artificial materials and…

An uncommon double-ray scenario of light resonant scattering by a periodic metasurface is proposed to provide strong non-specular reflection. The metasurface is constracted as an array of silicon nanodisks placed on thin silica-on-metal…

Metasurface with gradient phase response offers new alternative for steering the propagation of waves. Conventional Snell's law has been revised by taking the contribution of local phase gradient into account. However, the requirement of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Bingyi Liu , Jiajun Zhao , Xiaodong Xu , Wenyu Zhao , Yongyuan Jiang

This work presents a non-local terahertz metasurface integrated into a leaky-wave antenna for robust, wide-angle beam steering. The metasurface encodes a holographic pattern by explicitly inducing tangential and normal susceptibilities,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Seokjun Kim , Haneul Ryu , Minseok Kim

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are widely used in sensing and biosensing but generally suffer from strong attenuation in liquid environments. Conventional approaches rely on reflectors to reduce these losses, yet these components…