Acoustic Metamaterials: Tunable Gradient-Index Phononic Crystals for Acoustic Wave Manipulation - Softcover

Lin, Sz-Chin Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659186546 ISBN 13: 9783659186547

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Acoustic metamaterials are of growing interest due to their ability to manipulate the propagation of acoustic waves in an extraordinary manner to benefit various applications, such as communications, biosensing, and medical diagnosis and therapy. Among various construction methods of acoustic metamaterials, artificially engineered elastic periodic structures, known as phononic crystals (PCs), are the strongest candidates since they exhibit complete phononic band gaps and negative refractions due to the periodicity of the structure. In this book, a new class of acoustic metamaterials—gradient-index phononic crystal (GRIN PC)—is introduced to overcome the limitations of regular PCs and further enrich the control over acoustic waves. GRIN PCs with different gradient profiles are designed to guide acoustic waves in extraordinary manners that are not shown in nature or regular PCs. A practical method for tuning the phononic band gaps of a PC is investigated. The concepts presented in this book serve as important foundations for the future development of acoustic devices.

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About the Author:

Sz-Chin Steven Lin, Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from The Pennsylvania State University. He has been conducting interdisciplinary research at the interfaces of Acoustics, Photonics, Microfluidics, and Biology to develop functional systems for noise/vibration control, communications, bio-sensing, and medical diagnosis and therapy.

About this edition

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3659186546
• ISBN 13: 9783659186547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112