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American Institute of Physics, AIP Advances, 7(5), p. 077192, 2015

DOI: 10.1063/1.4928100

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Design and analysis of the trapeziform and flat acoustic cloaks with controllable invisibility performance in a quasi-space

Journal article published in 2015 by Jian Zhu, Tianning Chen ORCID, Qingxuan Liang, Xiaopeng Wang ORCID, Jie Xiong, Ping Jiang
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We present the design, implementation and detailed performance analysis for a class of trapeziform and flat acoustic cloaks. An effective large invisible area is obtained compared with the traditional carpet cloak. The cloaks are realized with homogeneous metamaterials which are made of periodic arrangements of subwavelength unit cells composed of steel embedded in air. The microstructures and its effective parameters of the cloaks are determined quickly and precisely in a broadband frequency range by using the effective medium theory and the proposed parameters optimization method. The invisibility capability of the cloaks can be controlled by the variation of the key design parameters and scale factor which are proved to have more influence on the performance in the near field than that in the far field. Different designs are suitable for different application situations. Good cloaking performance demonstrates that such a device can be physically realized with natural materials which will greatly promote the real applications of invisibility cloak.