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When waves impinge on a disordered material they are back-scattered and form a highly complex interference pattern. Suppressing any such distortions in the free propagation of a wave is a challenging task with many applications in a number…

Microring resonators enable the enhancement of nonlinear frequency mixing processes, generating output fields at frequencies that widely differ from the inputs, in some cases by more than an octave. The efficiency of such devices depends on…

The rapidly growing global data usage has demanded more efficient ways to utilize the scarce electromagnetic spectrum resource. Recent research has focused on the development of efficient multiplexing techniques in the millimeter-wave band…

Non-radiative coupling between conductive coils is a candidate mechanism for wireless energy transfer applications. In this paper, we propose a power relay system based on a near-field metamaterial superlens, and present a thorough…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-07-25 Yaroslav Urzhumov , David R. Smith

Mechanical motion can break the symmetry in which sound travels in a medium, but significant non-reciprocity is typically achieved only for very large motion speeds. Here we combine moving media with zero-index acoustic propagation,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Li Quan , Dimitrios L. Sounas , Andrea Alu

Hyperbolic metamaterials were initially proposed in optics to boost radiation efficiencies of quantum emitters. Adopting this concept for antenna design can allow approaching long-standing challenges in radio physics. For example, impedance…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Ildar Yusupov , Dmitry Filonov , Tatyana Vosheva , Viktor Podolsky , Pavel Ginzburg

Inspired by the parity-time symmetry concept, we show that a judicious spatial modulation of gain and loss in epsilon-near-zero metamaterials can induce the propagation of exponentially-bound interface modes characterized by zero…

We leverage quantum graph theory to quickly and accurately characterise acoustic metamaterials comprising networks of interconnected pipes. Anisotropic bond lengths are incorporated in the model that correspond to space-coiled acoustic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 T. M. Lawrie , T. A. Starkey , G. Tanner , D. B. Moore , P. Savage , G. J. Chaplain

We demonstrate that metamaterial devices requiring anisotropic dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability may be emulated by specially designed tapered waveguides. This approach leads to low-loss, broadband performance. Based on this…

Electro-momentum coupling in piezoelectric metamaterials with broken inversion symmetry enables asymmetric elastic wave transport by linking macroscopic electric fields to momentum, an effect analogous to Willis coupling in elastic media. A…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Hrishikesh Danawe , Serife Tol

Acoustic negative-index metamaterials show promise in achieving superlensing for diagnostic medical imaging. In spite of the recent progress made in this field, most metamaterials suffer from deficiencies such as low spatial symmetry,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Hao-Wen Dong , Sheng-Dong Zhao , Yue-Sheng Wang , Li Cheng , Chuanzeng Zhang

Inducing nonreciprocal wave propagation is a fundamental challenge across a wide range of physical systems in electromagnetics, optics, and acoustics. Recent efforts to create nonreciprocal devices have departed from established…

Efficient transmission of elastic waves across interfaces is central to several applications, including medical imaging, seismic isolation, and transducer design. Interfaces with abrupt changes in the material properties significantly…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-25 Jagannadh Boddapati , Jihoon Ahn , Alexander C Ogren , Chiara Daraio

This work is a study of acoustic non-reciprocity exhibited by a passive one-dimensional linear waveguide incorporating two local strongly nonlinear, asymmetric gates. Two local nonlinear gates break the symmetry and linearity of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-06 Anargyros Michaloliakos , Chongan Wang , Alexander F. Vakakis

We design compact waveguide couplers via impedance-tunable transformation optics. By tuning impedance coefficients in the original space, two-dimensional metallic and dielectric waveguide couplers are designed with a high efficiency.…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-04 Jun Cao , Lifa Zhang , Weifeng Jiang , Senlin Yan , Xiaohan Sun

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

The emergence of "acoustic diode" (AD) capable of rectifying acoustic wave like electrical diodes do to electricity has been believed to be able to offer unconventional manipulation on sound, e.g., to isolate the wrong-way reflection, and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Zhong-ming Gu , Jie Hu , Bin Liang , Xin-ye Zou , Jian-chun Cheng

We propose a class of metamaterials in which propagation of acoustic waves is controlled magnetically through magnetoelastic coupling. The metamaterials are formed by a periodic array of thin magnetic layers ('resonators') embedded in a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-18 O. S. Latcham , Y. I. Gusieva , A. V. Shytov , O. Y. Gorobets , V. V. Kruglyak

Efficiently receiving underwater sound remotely from air is a long-standing challenge in acoustics hindered by the large impedance mismatch at the water-air interface. Here we introduce and experimentally demonstrate a technique for remote…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Jing-jing Liu , Zheng-wei Li , Bin Liang , Jian-chun Cheng , Andrea Alu

A combination of gap waveguide technology and the traditional coplanar waveguide is studied in detail and demonstrated experimentally for the first time. This novel metamaterial transmission line is presented in three different…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Carlos Biurrun-Quel , Jorge Teniente , Carlos del-Rio