Metamaterials exhibit properties beyond those exhibited by conventional materials in
conventional scenarios. These have been investigated both theoretically and experimentally …

Phononic crystals (PnCs) control the transport of sound and heat similar to the control of
electric currents by semiconductors and metals or light by photonic crystals. Basic and …

Seismic metamaterial (SM) has lately received significant attention in the field of vibration
isolation and damping due to its wave manipulation and bandgap properties. However, the …

In solid state physics, a bandgap (BG) refers to a range of energies where no electronic
states can exist. This concept was extended to classical waves, spawning the entire fields of …

Mechanical metamaterials and phononic crystals enable localizing, focusing, and guiding of
elastic or acoustic waves in various ways. Here, we describe the physical mechanisms …

In the last two decades, seismic metamaterials have attracted significant attention of
researchers because of the characteristic of the bandgap which can be used to control …

The introduction of engineered resonance phenomena on surfaces has opened a new
frontier in surface science and technology. Pillared phononic crystals, metamaterials, and …

Tailoring light properties using metasurfaces made of optically thin and subwavelength
structure arrays has led to a variety of innovative optical components with intriguing …

The advancement in electromagnetic metamaterials, which commenced three decades ago,
experienced a rapid transformation into acoustic and elastic systems in the forms of …

Critical concepts from three different fields, elasticity, plasmonics and metamaterials, are
brought together to design a metasurface at the geophysical scale, the resonant …