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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 17(110)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.175501

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Measurement of a Broadband Negative Index with Space-Coiling Acoustic Metamaterials

Journal article published in 2013 by Yangbo Xie ORCID, Bogdan-Ioan Popa, Lucian Zigoneanu, Steven A. Cummer
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

We report the experimental demonstration of broadband negative refractive index obtained in a labyrinthine acoustic metamaterial structure. Two different approaches were employed to prove the metamaterial negative index nature: one-dimensional extractions of effective parameters from reflection and transmission measurements, and two-dimensional prism-based measurements that convincingly show the transmission angle corresponding to negative refraction. The transmission angles observed in the latter case also agree very well with the refractive index obtained in the one-dimensional measurements and numerical simulations. We expect this labyrinthine metamaterial to become the unit cell of choice for practical acoustic metamaterial devices that require broadband and significantly negative indexes of refraction.