Acoustic Metamaterials and Phononic Crystals [Paperback]

This comprehensive book presents all aspects of acoustic metamaterials and phononic crystals. The emphasis is on acoustic wave propagation phenomena at interfaces such as refraction, especially unusual refractive properties and negative refraction. A thorough discussion of the mechanisms leading to such refractive phenomena includes local resonances in metamaterials and scattering in phononic crystals.

This full presentation of the cutting-edge and highly applicable topic of crystalline metamaterials emphasizes acoustic wave propagation phenomena at interfaces such as refraction, in particular unusual refractive properties and negative refraction.

Introduction to Phononic Crystals and Acoustic Metamaterials.- Discrete One-Dimensional Phononic and Resonant Crystals.- One-Dimensional Phononic Crystals.- 2d-3d Phononic Crystals.- Dynamic Mass Density and Acoustic Metamaterials.- Damped Phononic Crystals and Acoustic Metamaterials.- Nonlinear Periodic Phononic Structures and Granular Crystals.- Tunable Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials.- Nanoscale Phononic Crystals and Structures.- Phononic Band Structures and Transmission Coefficients: ?Methods and Approaches.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE: Co-founder and Director, Nano-Biomolecular Engineering Science and Technology (n-BEST) program, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Associate Department Head, Dept. of Materials Science and Engr., University of Arizona, Tucson AZ Full professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ VISITING APPOINTMENTS: Numerous yearly visiting professorships at the UFR de Physique, Universit? de Lille Visiting professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts Invited scientist, Max Planck Institut fuer Metallforschung, Institut fur Werstoffwissenschaften, Stuttgart, Germany OTHER APPOINTMENTS: Member of the Biomedical Engineering InterdisciplinarlÓ'