Functional Acoustic Metamaterials
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 859
Special Issue Editor
Interests: acoustic metamaterials; anisotropic media; circuit simulation; electromagnetic metamaterials; optical metamaterials
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Dear Colleagues,
Following the invention of metamaterials, research trends have spread from electromagnetic waves to other waves, including acoustic waves. Metamaterials can behave quite differently from the perspective of directivity, which can be partly realized by its anisotropy. We can expect both academic analysis and engineering applications when we focus on anisotropy.
We invite researchers and engineers to contribute to this Special Issue on functional acoustic metamaterials, which is intended to serve as a unique multidisciplinary forum covering broad aspects of physics, engineering, and applications of acoustic metamaterials and metasurfaces.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Physical analysis of anisotropic acoustic metamaterials;
- Structural proposal of anisotropic acoustic metamaterials;
- Design and simulation methods of anisotropic acoustic metamaterials;
- Demonstrations of anisotropic acoustic metamaterials;
- Cloak and stealth phenomena using anisotropic acoustic metamaterials;
- New applications of anisotropic acoustic metamaterials;
- Anisotropic supersonic metamaterials.
The metamaterials described above include metasurfaces.
Prof. Dr. Seiji Fukushima
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- anisotropy
- acoustic(s)
- metamaterial
- metasurface
- cloak, stealth
- supersonic(s)
- ultrasonic(s)
- off-diagonal element
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