Review of exploiting nonlinearity in phononic materials to enable nonlinear wave responses

GU Patil, KH Matlack - Acta Mechanica, 2022 - Springer
Phononic materials are periodically arranged building blocks in the form of material
properties, geometries, and/or boundary conditions. This synthetic architecture makes …

Phonon Engineering of Micro‐and Nanophononic Crystals and Acoustic Metamaterials: A Review

J Ma - Small Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Phononic crystals (PnCs) and acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) are artificially architected
materials endowed with the capabilities of wave manipulation. This review specifically …

Experimental demonstration of dual‐band nano‐electromechanical valley‐hall topological metamaterials

J Ma, X Xi, X Sun - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Suppression of undesired backscattering of very‐high‐frequency elastic signals has been
considered as a grand challenge in integrated phononic circuits. Originating from …

Observation of chiral edge states in gapped nanomechanical graphene

X Xi, J Ma, S Wan, CH Dong, X Sun - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Emerging in diverse areas of physics, edge states have been exploited as an efficient
strategy of manipulating electrons, photons, and phonons for next-generation hybrid electro …

Giant electron-mediated phononic nonlinearity in semiconductor–piezoelectric heterostructures

L Hackett, M Koppa, B Smith, M Miller, S Santillan… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Efficient and deterministic nonlinear phononic interactions could revolutionize classical and
quantum information processing at radio frequencies in much the same way that nonlinear …

Gigahertz phononic integrated circuits on thin-film lithium niobate on sapphire

FM Mayor, W Jiang, CJ Sarabalis, TP McKenna… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Acoustic devices play an important role in classical information processing. The slower
speed and lower losses of mechanical waves enable compact and efficient elements for …

Unveiling the link between Airy-like self-acceleration and diametric drive acceleration

P Zhang, Y Hu, D Bongiovanni, Z Li, R Morandotti… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We theoretically reveal the link between two types of self-acceleration mechanisms widely
emerging in wave dynamics and experimentally demonstrate such a connection via pulse …

Observation of Free-Boundary-Induced Chiral Anomaly Bulk States in Elastic Twisted Kagome Metamaterials

ZD Zhang, MH Lu, YF Chen - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Chiral anomaly bulk states (CABSs) can be realized by choosing appropriate boundary
conditions in a finite-size waveguide composed of two-dimensional Dirac semimetals, which …

A modified star-shaped phononic crystal for the vibration wave filtration in plates: design and experiment

A Hosseinkhani, E Panahi, MF Khansanami… - Archive of Applied …, 2023 - Springer
In the present paper, an auxetic tape composed of modified star-shaped unit cells is used to
filter the propagation of elastic waves in two-dimensional structures. The pattern of the …

Tunneling of transverse acoustic waves on a silicon chip

NP Mauranyapin, E Romero, R Kalra, G Harris… - Physical review applied, 2021 - APS
Nanomechanical circuits for transverse acoustic waves promise to enable new approaches
to computing, precision biochemical sensing, and many other applications. However …