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American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 20(120), 2022

DOI: 10.1063/5.0094606

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Far-field super-resolution focusing with weak side lobes and defect detection via an ultrasonic meta-lens of sharp-edge apertures

Journal article published in 2022 by Long-Sheng Zeng ORCID, Zhi-Min Li, Zi-Bin Lin, Hao Wu, Yu-Gui Peng, Xue-Feng Zhu ORCID
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Abstract

Breaking the diffraction limit to achieve super-resolution focusing is a long-sought goal in the field of acoustic imaging and detection. Here, we demonstrated super-resolution focusing of high-frequency ultrasound (5 MHz) based on an acoustic meta-lens with four centrosymmetric dart-like sharp-edge apertures. For the diffracted ultrasound carrying high spatial frequencies, super-resolution focusing is generated in the far field with mainlobe size breaking the diffraction limit (<1.22λ). Different from previous far-field super-resolution focusing, where the sidelobe intensity is close to or even larger than the mainlobe intensity, the sidelobe intensity in our case is weak. We further conducted fine defect detection (∼200 μm) by utilizing our designed far-field super-resolution focusing to verify its nondestructive testing performance.