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A manually reconfigurable reflective spatial sound modulator for ultrasonic waves in air
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posted on 2023-06-07, 07:16 authored by Jordi Prat-Camps, Giorgos Christopoulos, James Hardwick, Sriram SubramanianPrecise control of ultrasonic acoustic waves with frequencies f ? 20 kHz is useful in a range of applications from ultrasonic scanners to nondestructive testing and consumer haptic devices. A spatial sound modulator (SSM) is the acoustic analogy to the spatial light modulator (SLM) in optics and is highly sought after by acoustics researchers. A spatial sound modulator is constrained by very distinct practical conditions. Namely, it must be a reconfigurable device which modulates sound arbitrarily from a decoupled source. Here a reflective phase modulating device is realized, whose local units can be tuned to imprint a phase signature to an incoming wave. It is manually reconfigurable and consists of 1024 rigidly ended square waveguides with sliding bottom surfaces to provide variable phase delays. Experiments demonstrate the ability of this device to focus ultrasonic waves in air at different points in space, generate accurate pressure landscapes, and perform multiplane holography. Moreover, thanks to the subwavelength nature of the unit cells, this device outperforms state-of-the-art phased-array transducers of the same size in the quality and energy distribution of generated acoustic holographic images. These results pave the way for the construction of electronically controlled reflective SSMs
Funding
Chair in Emerging Technologies Top-Up Award; G2679; ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING (CHARITY); CiET1819\TUA\16
MetaSonics - Using metamaterials to create Interactive Experiences; G2630; EUROPEAN UNION; 841781
Interfaces - Manipulating Acoustic wavefronts using metamaterials for novel user interfaces; G2388; EUROPEAN UNION; 787413
Interactive Technologies Using Metamaterials; G2349; ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING (BEIS); CIE1718\14
SPAtial SOund Modulation by acoustic METAmaterials (SPASOMETA); G2553; LEVERHULME TRUST; ECF-2018-447
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Advanced Materials TechnologiesISSN
2365-709XPublisher
WileyExternal DOI
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8Volume
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a2000041Department affiliated with
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2020-06-18First Open Access (FOA) Date
2020-06-18First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2020-06-18Usage metrics
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