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This paper investigates an acoustic prism for continuous acoustic beam steering by a simple frequency sweep. This idea takes advantages of acoustic wave velocity shifting in metamaterials in the vicinity of local resonance. We apply this…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-05 Jiawen Xu , Jiong Tang

Fully harnessing the vast design space enabled by metamaterials to control electromagnetic (EM) fields remains an open problem for researchers. Inverse-design techniques have shown to best exploit the degrees of freedom available in design,…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Jorge Ruiz-Garcia , Anthony Grbic

Metamaterials and metasurfaces have given possibilities for manipulating electromagnetic (EM) waves that in the past would have seemed impossible. The majority of metasurface designs are suitable for a particular frequency and angle of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-10 Loukas Petrou , Petros Karousios , Julius Georgiou

We present in this paper a theoretical and numerical analysis of bending waves localized on the boundary of a platonic crystal whose building blocks are split ring resonators (SRR). We first derive the homogenized parameters of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-27 M. Farhat , S. Enoch , S. Guenneau

Slowing down, stopping, and reversing a signal is a core functionality for information processing. Here, we show that this functionality can be realized by tuning the dispersion of a periodic system through a dispersionless, or flat, band.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-08 Pragalv Karki , Jayson Paulose

In this article, a 2D plasmonic waveguide loaded with all dielectric anisotropic metamaterial, consisting of alternative layers of Si-SiO2, has been theoretically proposed and numerically analyzed. Main characteristics of waveguide i.e.…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-30 Abid Anjum Sifat , Ayed Al Sayem , M Mahmudul Hasan Sajeeb

We consider the effect of an array of plates or beams over a semi-infinite elastic ground on the propagation of elastic waves hitting the interface. The plates/beams are slender bodies with flexural resonances at low frequencies able to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Jean-Jacques Marigo , Kim Pham , Agnès Maurel , Sébastien Guenneau

Instead of analog electronic circuits and components, digital controllers that are capable of active multi-resonant piezoelectric shunting are applied to elastic metamaterials integrated with piezoelectric patches. Giving thanks to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-28 Gang Wang , Jianqing Cheng , Jingwei Chen , Yunze He

Acoustoelectric interactions occur when free carriers in a semiconductor interact with the fields of an acoustic wave in a piezoelectric medium. These interactions can amplify acoustic waves, as well as give rise to extremely large phononic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 William W. Roberts , Matt Eichenfield

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) emerge as promising technologies in future radar and wireless communication domains. This letter addresses the passive sensing issue utilizing wireless communication signals and RIS amidst…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-22 Peng Chen , Zhimin Chen , Pu Miao , Yun Chen

Joint detection and localization of users and scatterers in multipath-rich channels on multiple bands is critical for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in 6G. Existing multiband sensing methods are limited by classical beamforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Dexin Wang , Isha Jariwala , Ahmad Bazzi , Sundeep Rangan , Theodore S. Rappaport , Marwa Chafii

Active metamaterials are a type of metamaterial with tunable properties enabled by structural reconfigurations. Existing active metamaterials often achieve only a limited number of structural reconfigurations upon the application of an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Jay Sim , Shuai Wu , Sarah Hwang , Lu Lu , Ruike Renee Zhao

We develop a general continuum mechanics framework for active anisotropic plates within the F\"oppl-von K\'arm\'an limit, incorporating a preferential direction and inelastic active contractions in geometrically nonlinear plate theory.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 Gabriele Fioretto , Giulio Lucci , Chiara Giverso , Luigi Preziosi

Adaptive optics (AO) system performance is improved using post-processing techniques, such as point spread function (PSF) deconvolution. The PSF estimation involves characterization of the different wavefront (WF) error sources in the AO…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Florian Ferreira , Eric Gendron , Gérard Rousset , Damien Gratadour

Tetrachiral materials are characterized by a cellular microstructure made by a periodic pattern of stiff rings and flexible ligaments. Their mechanical behaviour can be described by a planar lattice of rigid massive bodies and elastic…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-05 Marco Lepidi , Andrea Bacigalupo

An all-dielectric Huygens metasurface supporting electric and magnetic resonances is a promising platform for a variety of optical applications that require a combination of extremely high transmission and broad-range control of the phase…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-01 Zhiyuan Fan , Gennady Shvets

In many modern industrial scenarios, the measurements of the quality characteristics of interest are often required to be represented as functional data or profiles. This motivates the growing interest in extending traditional univariate…

Large amplitude vibrations can cause hazards and failure to engineering structures. Active control has been an effective strategy to suppress vibrations, but it faces great challenges in the real-time control of nonlinear flexible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Cong Shen , Mingwu Li

For passive, lossless impenetrable metasurfaces, a design technique for arbitrary beam control of receiving, guiding, and launching is presented. Arbitrary control is enabled by a custom surface wave in an orthogonal polarization such that…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-01 Do-Hoon Kwon , Sergei A. Tretyakov

We experimentally demonstrate the feasibility of visualizing stress waves propagating in plates using air-coupled acoustic emission sensors. Specifically, we employ a device that embeds arrays of microphones around an optical lens in a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-02-01 J. Rivey , G. Lee , J. Yang , Y. Kim , S. Kim