Acoustic fields are ideal for micromanipulation, being biocompatible and with force gradients
approaching the scale of single cells. They have accordingly found use in a variety of …

Acoustic/elastic metasurfaces as a kind of two-dimensional metamaterials are of
subwavelength thickness and show remarkable ability of acoustic/elastic wave …

A metasurface is an array of subwavelength units with modulated wave responses that show
great potential for the control of refractive/reflective properties in compact functional devices …

The manipulation of acoustic waves plays an important role in a wide range of applications.
Currently, acoustic wave manipulation typically relies on either acoustic metasurfaces or …

The advent of acoustic metasurfaces (AMs), which are the two-dimensional equivalents of
metamaterials, has opened up new possibilities in wave manipulation using acoustically thin …

Ultrasound focusing manifests itself as the accumulation of ultrasound energy on the target.
It attracts extensive interest owing to its substantial advantage in engineering detection and …

Inspired by recent theoretical demonstrations of nonlocal waterborne acoustic metasurfaces
(WAMs), herein experimental evidence of a WAM with highly nonlocal features for high …

The development of a new ultrasonic transducer capable of improved focusing performance
has become a necessity to overcome the limitations of conventional ultrasonic transducer …

Tunable ultrasonic focusing holds great significance in both medicine and engineering.
Recent advancements in metalenses have introduced approaches for tunable acoustic …

From being an unfavorable consequence to finding itself as the intended imaginary part of a
non-Hermitian system, loss has truly emerged as more of a friend than a foe in the context of …