3D rainbow phononic crystals for extended vibration attenuation bands

Strongly Nonlinear Waves in 3d Phononic Crystals

Three dimensional phononic crystal ("sonic vacuum" without prestress) was assembled from 137 vertical cavities arranged in hexagonal pattern in Silicone matrix filled with stainless steel spheres. This system has unique strongly nonlinear properties with respect to wave propagation inherited from nonlinear Hertz type elastic contact interaction. Trains of strongly nonlinear solitary waves excit...

Ultrasound tunneling through 3D phononic crystals.

We report the study of ultrasound tunneling in 3D phononic crystals, consisting of fcc arrays of close-packed tungsten carbide beads in water. The transmission coefficient, phase velocity, and group velocity were measured along the [111] direction, allowing us to systematically investigate the tunneling of ultrasound at frequencies in the lowest band gap. Our experimental data are interpreted u...

Tunable magnetoelastic phononic crystals

J.-F. Robillard, O. Bou Matar, J. O. Vasseur, P. A. Deymier, M. Stippinger, A.-C. Hladky-Hennion, Y. Pennec, and B. Djafari-Rouhani Joint European Laboratory LEMAC, Ecole Centrale de Lille, 59651 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France Institut d’Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, UMR CNRS 8520, Cité Scientifique, 59652 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France Department of Materials Science an...

Magnetic-Sphere-Based Phononic Crystals

Periodic arrays in one, two, and three dimensions, made of magnetic spheres embedded in a fluid matrix, are considered in this study and utilized as phononic structures. The propagation of acoustic waves through these structures is analyzed experimentally, in lowand high-frequency region, via laser vibrometry, as well as standard underwater acoustic measurements. A first comparison to theoretic...

Design and characterization of bubble phononic crystals