Tunable metasurfaces: the path to fully active nanophotonics

T Badloe, J Lee, J Seong, J Rho - Advanced Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the field of nanophotonics, metasurfaces have come to the forefront in real‐world
applications, owing to their accessible exotic optical properties that can be readily designed …

Design of acoustic/elastic phase gradient metasurfaces: principles, functional elements, tunability, and coding

AL Chen, YS Wang, YF Wang… - Applied …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Acoustic/elastic metasurfaces as a kind of two-dimensional metamaterials are of
subwavelength thickness and show remarkable ability of acoustic/elastic wave …

Asymmetric generation of acoustic vortex using dual-layer metasurfaces

Y Fu, Y Tian, X Li, S Yang, Y Liu, Y Xu, M Lu - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
In this Letter, we introduce a new paradigm for achieving robust asymmetric generation of
acoustic vortex field through dual-layer metasurfaces by controlling their intrinsic topologic …

Acoustic topological beam nonreciprocity via the rotational Doppler effect

Q Wang, Z Zhou, D Liu, H Ding, M Gu, Y Li - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Reciprocity is a fundamental principle of wave physics related to time-reversal symmetry.
Nonreciprocal wave behaviors have been pursued for decades because of their great …

A review on acoustic vortices: Generation, characterization, applications and perspectives

S Guo, Z Ya, P Wu, M Wan - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Acoustic vortices provide a single-beam approach to manipulate objects with sizes from
nanometers to millimeters, gaining increasing interest in recent years. The helical beam …

Acoustic vortices via nonlocal metagratings

Z Hou, H Ding, N Wang, X Fang, Y Li - Physical Review Applied, 2021 - APS
Vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum enrich the wave-matter interaction physics
and show great potential applications, such as optical or acoustic tweezers and long-range …

Broadband tunable lossy metasurface with independent amplitude and phase modulations for acoustic holography

SW Fan, Y Zhu, L Cao, YF Wang… - Smart Materials and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Metasurface-based acoustic hologram projectors fabricated with fixed microstructures can
only generate the predesigned images at a single or few discrete frequencies. Here, a …

Emitting long-distance spiral airborne sound using low-profile planar acoustic antenna

S Gao, Y Li, C Ma, Y Cheng, X Liu - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Recent years have witnessed a rapidly growing interest in exploring the use of spiral sound
carrying artificial orbital angular momentum (OAM), toward establishing a spiral-wave-based …

Active acoustic field modulation of ultrasonic transducers with flexible composites

C Hou, Z Li, C Fei, Y Li, Y Wang, T Zhao… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The simple acoustic field generated by conventional transducers limits the development of
ultrasound applications. Current methods rely on passive acoustic lenses or active arrays to …

Underwater acoustic multiplexing communication by pentamode metasurface

Z Sun, Y Shi, X Sun, H Jia, Z Jin… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
As the dominant information carrier in water, the acoustic wave is widely used for
underwater detection, communication and imaging. Even though underwater acoustic …