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Date
2020-06-29Type
- Journal Article
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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. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000423672Publication status
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Nature CommunicationsVolume
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Nature Publishing GroupOrganisational unit
03890 - Chatzi, Eleni / Chatzi, Eleni
Funding
863179 - Bio-Inspired Hierarchical MetaMaterials (EC)
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Cited 21 times in
Web of Science
Cited 27 times in
Scopus
ETH Bibliography
yes
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