A brief review of sound energy harvesting

J Choi, I Jung, CY Kang - Nano energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Sound energy harvesting is one of the promising technologies due to the abundant and
clean sound sources. It can be the semi-permanent alternative power supplies for wireless …

Hybrid acoustic metamaterial as super absorber for broadband low-frequency sound

Y Tang, S Ren, H Meng, F Xin, L Huang, T Chen… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
A hybrid acoustic metamaterial is proposed as a new class of sound absorber, which
exhibits superior broadband low-frequency sound absorption as well as excellent …

[HTML][HTML] Harvesting the energy of multi-polarized electromagnetic waves

TS Almoneef, F Erkmen, OM Ramahi - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We present the idea and design of a dual polarized metasurface for electromagnetic energy
harvesting. A 4× 4 super cell with alternating vias between adjacent cells was designed to …

Acoustic Purcell effect for enhanced emission

M Landi, J Zhao, WE Prather, Y Wu, L Zhang - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
We observe that our experimentally measured emission power enhancement of a speaker
inside a previously proposed metacavity agrees with our numerically calculated …

Meta-ring for enhancing emission efficiency of omnidirectional SH waves

HJ Kim, CI Park, K Kim, YY Kim - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2023 - Elsevier
The intensity of a wave emitted by a transducer affects its performance critically, especially
when the emitted wave is omnidirectional. However, the development of omnidirectional …

Sound energy harvesting using a doubly coiled-up acoustic metamaterial cavity

KH Sun, JE Kim, J Kim, K Song - Smart materials and Structures, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A new sound energy harvesting system that comprises an acoustic metastructure and a
double-clamped piezoelectric bimorph plate is presented. A subwavelength-scale acoustic …

Remote whispering metamaterial for non-radiative transceiving of ultra-weak sound

J Zhang, W Rui, C Ma, Y Cheng, X Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Transceiving ultra-weak sound typically relies on signal pre-amplification at the transmitting
end via active electro-acoustic devices, which inherently perturbs the environment in the …

Fluid-structural coupling in metamaterial plates for vibration and noise mitigation in acoustic cavities

A Aladwani, A Almandeel, M Nouh - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Locally resonant metamaterials exhibit sub-wavelength tunable bandgaps that can be
exploited for vibroacoustic mitigation. The present work investigates the use of metamaterial …

High-directivity emissions with flexible beam numbers and beam directions using gradient-refractive-index fractal metamaterial

HX Xu, GM Wang, Z Tao, TJ Cui - Scientific Reports, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract A three-dimensional (3D) highly-directive emission system is proposed to enable
beam shaping and beam steering capabilities in wideband frequencies. It is composed of an …

Flexible piezoelectric fibers for acoustic sensing and positioning

S Wang, T Zhang, K Li, S Ma, M Chen… - Advanced electronic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging development of flexible acoustic devices focuses on constructing large‐area
acoustic sensing networks with high spatial and temporal resolution, enabling applications …