Tailored elastic surface to body wave Umklapp conversion
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Elastic waves guided along surfaces dominate applications in geophysics, ultrasonic inspection, mechanical vibration, and surface acoustic wave devices; precise manipulation of surface Rayleigh waves and their coupling with polarised body waves presents a challenge that offers to unlock the flexibility in wave transport required for efficient energy harvesting and vibration mitigation devices. We design elastic metasurfaces, consisting of a graded array of rod resonators attached to an elastic substrate that, together with critical insight from Umklapp scattering in phonon-electron systems, allow us to leverage the transfer of crystal momentum; we mode-convert Rayleigh surface waves into bulk waves that form tunable beams. Experiments, theory and simulation verify that these tailored Umklapp mechanisms play a key role in coupling surface Rayleigh waves to reversed bulk shear and compressional waves independently, thereby creating passive self-phased arrays allowing for tunable redirection and wave focusing within the bulk medium.
Date Issued
2020-06-29
Date Acceptance
2020-05-25
Citation
Nature Communications, 2020, 11
ISSN
2041-1723
Publisher
Nature Research (part of Springer Nature)
Journal / Book Title
Nature Communications
Volume
11
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
UKRI
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Commission of the European Communities
Identifier
http://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05373v1
Grant Number
EP/T002654/1
R100724-101, A/C 86440
863179
Subjects
physics.app-ph
physics.app-ph
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
Notes
5 pages of text with 3 figures plus 3 pages of supplemental text with 5 supplemental figures
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 3267