Designing hyper-thin acoustic metasurfaces with membrane resonators
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Working paper
Author(s)
Wang, Yao-Ting
Craster, Richard
Type
Working Paper
Abstract
We design extremely-thin acoustic metasurfaces, providing a versatile
platform for the manipulation of reflected pressure fields, that are
constructed from mass loads and stretched membranes fixed to a periodic rigid
framework. These metasurfaces demonstrate deeply subwavelength control and can
have thicknesses an order of magnitude less than those based around Helmholtz
resonators. Each sub-unit of the metasurface is resonant at a frequency tuned
geometrically, this tunability provides phase control and using a set of finely
tuned membrane resonators we create a phase-grating metasurface. This surface
is designed to exhibit all-angle negative reflections with the ratio of
wavelength, $\lambda$, to thickness, $h$, of $\lambda/h\approx 23.1$, and to
create a flat mirror using the phase profile of an elliptic reflecting mirror.
A further important acoustic application is to sound diffusers and we proceed
to design a deeply subwavelength membrane-based meta-diffuser that can be two
orders of magnitude thinner than the operating wavelength, i.e. thickness
$\approx\lambda/102$. This paves the way for developing advanced acoustic
metasurfaces with applicability to functional acoustic devices in sound-related
industries.
platform for the manipulation of reflected pressure fields, that are
constructed from mass loads and stretched membranes fixed to a periodic rigid
framework. These metasurfaces demonstrate deeply subwavelength control and can
have thicknesses an order of magnitude less than those based around Helmholtz
resonators. Each sub-unit of the metasurface is resonant at a frequency tuned
geometrically, this tunability provides phase control and using a set of finely
tuned membrane resonators we create a phase-grating metasurface. This surface
is designed to exhibit all-angle negative reflections with the ratio of
wavelength, $\lambda$, to thickness, $h$, of $\lambda/h\approx 23.1$, and to
create a flat mirror using the phase profile of an elliptic reflecting mirror.
A further important acoustic application is to sound diffusers and we proceed
to design a deeply subwavelength membrane-based meta-diffuser that can be two
orders of magnitude thinner than the operating wavelength, i.e. thickness
$\approx\lambda/102$. This paves the way for developing advanced acoustic
metasurfaces with applicability to functional acoustic devices in sound-related
industries.
Date Issued
2020-07-19
Citation
2020
Publisher
arXiv
Copyright Statement
© 2020 The Author(s)
Identifier
http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09759v1
Subjects
physics.app-ph
physics.app-ph
Notes
7 figures
Publication Status
Published