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American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 21(107), p. 213503

DOI: 10.1063/1.4936373

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One-way acoustic mirror based on anisotropic zero-index media

Journal article published in 2015 by Zhong-Ming Gu, Bin Liang, Xin-Ye Zou ORCID, Jing Yang, Yong Li, Jun Yang, Jian-Chun Cheng ORCID
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Abstract

We have designed a one-way acoustic mirror comprising anisotropic zero-index media. For acoustic beam incident at a particular angle, the designed structure behaves like a high-efficient mirror that redirects almost all the incident energy into another direction predicted by the Snell's law, while becoming virtually transparent to beams propagating reversely along this output path. Furthermore, the mirror can be tailored to work at arbitrary incident angle by simply adjusting its geometry. Our design, with undirectional reflection functionality and flexible working angle, may offer possibilities in space isolations and have deep implication in various scenarios like ultrasound imaging or noise control.