Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Janus acoustic metascreen with nonreciprocal and reconfigurable phase modulations

  • Yifan Zhu,
  • Liyun Cao,
  • Aurélien Merkel,
  • Shi-Wang Fan,
  • Brice Vincent,
  • Badreddine Assouar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27403-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Here, the authors introduce the concept of Janus acoustic metascreen for independent wavefront manipulations for two opposite incidences. They use acoustic circulators with rotating inner cores to achieve high nonreciprocity, and demonstrate tunable combinations of wavefront manipulations.