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20142023
most citedExperimental realizations of full control of reflected waves with subwavelength acoustic metasurfaces

413 citations · 1.5k across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

physics.app-ph2023

Single-sensor and real-time ultrasonic imaging using an AI-driven disordered metasurface

Wei Wang, Jie Hu, Jingjing Liu +5

Non-destructive testing and medical diagnostic techniques using ultrasound has become indispensable in evaluating the state of materials or imaging the internal human body, respect…

physics.app-ph2023

Acoustic meta-stethoscope for cardiac auscultation

Zheng-Ji Chen, Jing-Jing Liu, Bin Liang +2

Straight cylindrical stethoscopes serve as an important alternative to conventional stethoscopes whose application in the treatment of infectious diseases might be limited by the u…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 4 cited

Chess-board Acoustic Crystals with Momentum-space Nonsymmorphic Symmetries

Yanqiu Wang, Chen Zhang, Z. Y. Chen +3

Spatial symmetries appearing in both real and momentum space are of fundamental significance to crystals. However, in the conventional framework, every space group in real space, e…

physics.app-ph2022

Sound non-reciprocity based on synthetic magnetism

Zhaoxian Chen, Zhengwei Li, Jingkai Weng +4

Synthetic magnetism has been recently realized using spatiotemporal modulation patterns, producing non-reciprocal steering of charge-neutral particles such as photons and phonons.…

physics.app-ph2022★ 2 cited

Remote Water-to-air Eavesdropping through Phase-Engineered Impedance Matching Metasurfaces

Jing-jing Liu, Zheng-wei Li, Bin Liang +2

Efficiently receiving underwater sound remotely from air is a long-standing challenge in acoustics hindered by the large impedance mismatch at the water-air interface. Here we intr…

physics.app-ph2022

Efficient, High-purity, Robust Sound Frequency Conversion with a Linear Metasurface

Chengbo Hu, Wei Wang, Jincheng Ni +5

The intrinsic limitation of the material nonlinearity inevitably results in the poor mode purity, conversion efficiency and real-time reconfigurability of the generated harmonic wa…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 113 cited

Experimental Realization of Weyl Exceptional Rings in a Synthetic Three-Dimensional Non-Hermitian Phononic Crystal

Zheng-wei Li, Jing-jing Liu, Ze-Guo Chen +5

Weyl points (WPs) are isolated degeneracies carrying quantized topological charges, and are therefore robust against Hermitian perturbations. WPs are predicted to spread to the Wey…

physics.app-ph2021★ 99 cited

Experimental Observation of Efficient Nonreciprocal Mode Transitions via Spatiotemporally-Modulated Acoustic Metamaterials

Zhaoxian Chen, Yugui Peng, Haoxiang Li +7

In lossless acoustic systems, mode transitions are always time-reversible, consistent with Lorentz reciprocity, giving rise to symmetric sound manipulation in space-time. To overco…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Robust zero-energy states in two-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger topological insulators

Zhang-Zhao Yang, An-Yang Guan, Wen-Jie Yang +2

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model on a two-dimensional square lattice has been considered as a significant platform for studying topological multipole insulators. However, due t…

physics.app-ph2021★ 13 cited

A General Method to Design Acoustic Higher-Order Topological Insulators

An-Yang Guan, Zhang-Zhao Yang, Xin-Ye Zou +1

Acoustic systems that are without limitations imposed by the Fermi level have been demonstrated as significant platform for the exploration of fruitful topological phases. By surro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 7 cited

Topological Classical Systems with Generalized Chiral Symmetry

Zhang-Zhao Yang, An-Yang Guan, Xin-Ye Zou +1

The bulk band topology of symmetry invariant adiabatic systems in the thermodynamic limit are considered to be determined by the hopping energy. In this work, we present that in cl…

cs.NE2019★ 108 cited

Meta-neural-network for Realtime and Passive Deep-learning-based Object Recognition

Jingkai Weng, Yujiang Ding, Chengbo Hu +4

Deep-learning recently show great success across disciplines yet conventionally require time-consuming computer processing or bulky-sized diffractive elements. Here we theoreticall…

physics.app-ph2019★ 1 cited

Acoustic manipulation through zero-thickness perforated plane with strong-coupling effects

Liu-Ming Hao, Xin-Ye Zou, Bin Liang +1

How to manipulate acoustic waves through thinner structures is always a challenging problem due to the linear proportional relationship between the structural thickness and the aco…

physics.app-ph2018★ 7 cited

Ultrathin acoustic parity-time symmetric metasurface cloak

Hao-Xiang Li, Maria Rosendo-Lopez, Yi-Fan Zhu +5

Invisibility or unhearability cloaks have been made possible by using metamaterials making light or sound flow around obstacle without the trace of reflections or shadows. Metamate…

physics.class-ph2018★ 73 cited

Self-ordering induces multiple topological transitions for elastic waves in phononic crystals

Jiujiu Chen, Hongbo Huang, Shaoyong Huo +3

Topological defects with symmetry-breaking phase transitions have captured much attention. Vortex generated by topological defects exhibits exotic properties and its flow direction…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 348 cited

Experimental Realization of Acoustic Chern Insulator

Yifan Zhu, Yugui Peng, Xudong Fan +4

Topological insulators are new states of matter in which the topological phase originates from symmetry breaking. Recently, time-reversal invariant topological insulators were demo…

physics.app-ph2017★ 116 cited

Omnidirectional Ventilated Acoustic Barrier

Hai-long Zhang, Yi-fan Zhu, Bin Liang +3

As an important problem in acoustics, sound insulation finds applications in a great variety of situations. In the existing schemes, however, there has always been a tradeoff betwe…

physics.app-ph2017★ 1 cited

Spatial filtering of audible sound with acoustic landscapes

Shuping Wang, Jiancheng Tao, Xiaojun Qiu +1

Acoustic metasurfaces manipulate waves with specially designed structures and achieve properties that natural materials cannot offer. Similar surfaces work in audio frequency range…

physics.app-ph2017

Twisted Acoustics

Xue Jiang, Bin Liang, Jian-chun Cheng +1

We use metasurfaces to enable acoustic orbital angular momentum (a-OAM) based multiplexing in real-time, postprocess-free and sensor-scanning-free fashions to improve the bandwidth…

physics.class-ph2017★ 23 cited

Directional radiation of sound waves by a subwavelength source

Xu-Dong Fan, Yi-Fan Zhu, Bin Liang +2

We propose and experimentally achieve a directional dipole field radiated by an omnidirectional monopole source enclosed in a subwavelength structure of acoustically hybrid resonan…

physics.class-ph2017★ 120 cited

Ultra-thin Acoustic Metasurface-Based Schroeder Diffuser

Yifan Zhu, Xudong Fan, Bin Liang +2

Schroeder diffuser is a classical design, proposed over 40 years ago, for artificially creating optimal and predictable sound diffuse reflection. It has been widely adopted in arch…

physics.class-ph2016★ 2 cited

Non-Hermitian acoustic metamaterial for the complete control of sound by accessing the exceptional points

Yi-Fan Zhu, Xue-Feng Zhu, Xu-Dong Fan +4

Non-Hermitian systems always play a negative role in wave manipulations due to inherent non-conservation of energy as well as loss of information. Recently, however, there has been…

physics.class-ph2015

An acoustic invisible gateway

Yi-Fan Zhu, Xin-Ye Zou, Bin Liang +3

The recently-emerged concept of "invisible gateway" with the extraordinary capability to block the waves but allow the passage of other entities has attracted great attentions due…

physics.class-ph2015★ 1 cited

Broadband non-reciprocal transmission of sound with invariant frequency

Zhong-ming Gu, Jie Hu, Bin Liang +2

The emergence of "acoustic diode" (AD) capable of rectifying acoustic wave like electrical diodes do to electricity has been believed to be able to offer unconventional manipulatio…