Tunable Extremely Asymmetric Acoustic Metasurfaces Made by Coupled Membrane Resonators

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates tunable asymmetric acoustic metasurfaces using coupled membrane resonators, achieving high contrast in reflection and transmission by applying DC voltage, with potential for adaptive acoustic control.

Contribution

It introduces a novel design of tunable asymmetric acoustic metasurfaces with extreme contrast, controlled via voltage, enabling dynamic manipulation of sound reflection and transmission.

Findings

Reflection contrast over 23 dB at 388 Hz

Transmission contrast over 33 dB at 240 Hz and 590 Hz

Tunable working frequency from 324.2 Hz to 335 Hz

Abstract

We report the experimental demonstration of tunable asymmetric acoustic metasurfaces with extreme contrast, made by two decorated membrane resonators (DMRs) coupled via a sealed air column. The front side of the metasurface is impedance matched to air and perfectly absorbing, while the backside is hard and totally reflecting. When a suitable DC voltage is applied to the backside DMR with proper electrodes, the surface impedance of the back side of the metasurfaces can be tuned from one extreme to the other, such that the backside becomes impedance matched to air and totally absorbing, while the front side becomes perfectly reflecting. The metasurface also exhibits high transmission contrast around two frequencies. The tunability of the reflection is over 23 dB at 388 Hz, and that of the transmission is over 33 dB at 240 Hz and 590 Hz with 600 V of applied voltage. We further demonstrate one-side impedance matched metasurface with tunable working frequency 324.2 Hz to 335 Hz and reflection contrast over 31 dB.