Additive manufacture of small-scale metamaterial structures for acoustic and ultrasonic applications

A Gardiner, P Daly, R Domingo-Roca, JFC Windmill… - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Acoustic metamaterials are large-scale materials with small-scale structures. These
structures allow for unusual interaction with propagating sound and endow the large-scale …

Coiled phononic crystal with periodic rotational locking: Subwavelength Bragg band gaps

CL Willey, VW Chen, D Roca, A Kianfar, MI Hussein… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Phononic crystals (PnC) are spatially periodic materials with band gaps that form by Bragg
scattering of elastic waves. Within the frequency range of a band gap, wave propagation is …

Pushing the Limits of Acoustic Spatial Perception via Incident Angle Encoding

Y Fu, Y Zhang, H Pan, Y Lu, X Li, L Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
With the growing popularity of smart speakers, numerous novel acoustic sensing
applications have been proposed for low-frequency human speech and high-frequency …

Far-field acoustic imaging enhancement using compact graded refractive index metamaterials

Z Li, J Ma, J Li, X Huang - IEEE Transactions on Computational …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) are promising in high-performance acoustic detection and
imaging; however, few can be combined with sensors to form a practical detector, and most …

A crossed T-gradient metamaterial for enhanced acoustic sensing

X Zhao, G Hao, Y Shang, J Han - Applied Acoustics, 2025 - Elsevier
Detecting weak acoustic signals within a strong background noise environment is of
significant importance across various research fields. However, conventional detection …

Broadband acoustic signal enhancement via gradient metamaterials coupled to crystals

S Zhang, G Hao, X Zhao, Y Liu, J Han - Frontiers in Physics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In this work, a phononic crystal gradient metamaterial structure (PCGMs) is proposed based
on the strong wave compression effect coupled with equivalent medium theory to achieve …

SNR enhancement for dual wavelength distributed fiber acoustic sensing system using improved recursive least squares method

X Liu, X Zhou, Z Liu, Y Wang, Q Bai, B Jin - Optical Fiber Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, an improved recursive least squares (RLS) method has been proposed to
enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of dual wavelength distributed fiber acoustic …

Application of Metamaterial in Renewable Energy: A Review

A Ahmad, A Asad, P Pacpaco… - International …, 2024 - deerhillpublishing.com
Metamaterial advancements hold promise for compact renewable energy harvesting,
capturing acoustic, electromagnetic, mechanical, and solar energy on a modest scale across …

[PDF][PDF] Prospects on application of elastic metamaterials in acoustic emission sensing

Z Klimek, P Paćko - 2023 - ndt.net
This paper discusses challenges, limitations and problems arising in currently employed
acoustic emission testing systems, sensors and signal processing algorithms. Main factors …