Acoustic Metamaterials Negative Refraction, Imaging, Lensing and Cloaking /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Craster, Richard V. (Editor), Guenneau, Sb̌astien. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science, 166
• Subjects: Acoustics.; Acoustics in engineering.; Materials.; Materials Science.; Structural Materials.; Engineering Acoustics.; Solid State Physics.; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods.
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Over the past ten years, electromagnetic metamaterials have become ubiquitous in modern photonics research, following Pendry's proposal of a perfect flat lens via negative refraction at the turn of the millennium, and the related development of invisibility cloaks. These two paradigms have thei...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1 Fundamentals of acoustic metamaterials
• 2 Locally resonant structures for low frequency surface acoustic band gap applications
• 3 Band-gap properties of prestressed structures
• 4 Ultrasound transmission through periodically perforated plates
• 5 Novel Ultrasound Imaging Applications
• 6 Subwavelength focussing in metamaterials using far field time reversal
• 7 Anisotropic metamaterials for transformation acoustics and imaging
• 8 Transformation Acoustics
• 9 Acoustic Cloaking Via Homogenization
• 10 Acoustic Cloaking with Plasmonic Shells
• 11 Cloaking Liquid Surface Waves and Plasmon Polaritons
• 12 Transformation elastodynamics and active exterior acoustic cloaking.