Ultra-broadband asymmetric acoustic transmission with single transmitted beam

We report both experimentally and numerically that ultra-broadband asymmetric acoustic transmission is realized by a brass plate and a right triangle reflector immersed in water. This exotic phenomenon arises from the asymmetric excitation of the leaky asymmetric zero-order Lamb mode in the brass plate induced by the incident angle of external bulk waves. The results show that the bandwidth of the asymmetric acoustic transmission could reach 2000 k Hz, and the positive transmitted wave is only a single acoustic beam. The device has the advantages of ultra-broadband, single transmitted beam,and simpler structure, which has great potential applications in ultrasonic devices.     

Controls of pass-bands in asymmetric acoustic transmission

The controls of the pass-bands in an asymmetric acoustic transmission system are investigated numerically and experimentally, and the system consists of a periodical rectangular grating and two uniform brass plates in water. We reveal that the pass-band of the asymmetric acoustic transmission is closely related to the grating period, but is affected slightly by the brass plate thickness. Moreover, the transmittance can be improved by adjusting the grating period and other structural parameters simultaneously. The control method of the system has the advantages of wider frequency range and simple operation, which has great potential applications in ultrasonic devices.     

磁绝缘传输线阻抗变化对空间电子流的影响

介绍了磁绝缘传输线的阻抗大小、传输电压及电流大小对其产生的空间电子流大小及阴极电子鞘层厚度的影响。运用CHIPIC软件建立四层圆盘锥形磁绝缘传输线A层的近似化三维模型进行模拟,对比理论计算值与模拟值,并与相关文献的二维模拟结果进行对照,验证三维模拟的正确性。最后,模拟研究了圆盘锥形磁绝缘传输线阴阳极之间的间距变化对传输效率的影响。     

磁绝缘传输线阻抗变化对空间电子流的影响

介绍了磁绝缘传输线的阻抗大小、传输电压及电流大小对其产生的空间电子流大小及阴极电子鞘层厚度的影响。运用CHIPIC软件建立四层圆盘锥形磁绝缘传输线A层的近似化三维模型进行模拟,对比理论计算值与模拟值,并与相关文献的二维模拟结果进行对照,验证三维模拟的正确性。最后,模拟研究了圆盘锥形磁绝缘传输线阴阳极之间的间距变化对传输效率的影响。     

A direct method for acoustic impedance measurement based on the measurement of electrical impedance of acoustic transmitter

A simple and straight forward method for acoustic impedance measurement is presented and evaluated. In this method a speaker is used as the signal source. The relationship between the electrical impedance of the speaker and its acoustical load is developed and studied. It is shown that the electrical current and voltage of the speaker relate to the acoustical pressure and volume velocity. The mechanical and acoustical impedances are therefore easily derived by measuring the electrical current and voltage of the circuit. The proposed method yield itself to the automatic computer measurement and can be used for the field and in situ measurements.Comparison of the measurement data with those from other methods proves the applicability and accuracy of the proposed method.     

基于反射与折射理论的电涡流检测探头阻抗解析模型

应用电磁波的反射与折射理论建立了多层导电结构电涡流检测探头阻抗解析模型.电涡流检测中空间电磁场可看作线圈激励场与涡流场的叠加,而涡流场是线圈激励场的反射与折射效应,因此应用线圈激励场的级数型解析解和电磁波的反射与折射理论推导了级数型探头阻抗解析解.最后,比较了推导的级数型与传统的积分型探头阻抗解析解的计算结果,并进行了实验验证.计算结果与实验结果基本吻合,表明推导的级数型探头阻抗解析解是正确的,且与积分解析解相比具有不需要确定积分上限、耗时少、计算精度容易控制等优点. 关键词： 电涡流检测 多层导电结构 反射与折射理论 探头阻抗     

基于新型自耦合非对称阶梯阻抗谐振器的小型化三通带平衡滤波器

针对平衡滤波器的高集成度和高选择性的应用需求,基于一种新型自耦合非对称阶梯阻抗谐振器提出了一种具有高选择性的小型化三通带平衡滤波器。首先通过该平衡滤波器的差模和共模等效电路详细分析了其谐振器结构的谐振特性,并利用差模等效电路下的前三个谐振模式来分别实现三个通带。另外通过在电路对称面上加载电容和电阻元件来提高对共模噪声的抑制,且不影响差模频率响应特性。基于提出的多模平衡滤波器结构和设计方法,设计了一个通带频率为2.75/4.46/6.21 GHz的三通带平衡滤波器,并对其进行了加工和测试,结果表明,该结构可以实现紧凑的体积和高选择特性,并且具有很好的共模抑制特性。     

感应电压叠加装置中角向传输线阻抗计算

在进行感应电压叠加装置设计时, 为了使初级脉冲形成与传输系统产生的快前沿高压脉冲均匀耦合到次级传输线, 需要建立感应腔的二维电路模型对电磁波在角向传输线中的传播过程进行分析, 并基于电路计算结果优化设计角向传输线阻抗分布规律,使次级传输线中电流能够均匀分布。由于角向传输线结构复杂, 没有精确求解阻抗值的解析公式, 介绍了一种基于电报方程和瞬态电磁场仿真求解复杂结构传输线阻抗值的方法, 采用该方法对等宽度和变化宽度两种结构角向传输线阻抗值进行了评估。研究结果表明,相比于三平板传输线阻抗计算公式, 采用微带传输线阻抗计算公式对角向传输线阻抗值进行求解结果更加精确。     

Bonding and impedance matching of acoustic transducers using silver epoxy

Silver epoxy was selected to bond transducer plates on glass substrates. The properties and thickness of the bonding medium affect the electrical input impedance of the transducer. Thus, the thickness of the silver epoxy bonding layer was used as a design parameter to optimize the structure for the transducer input impedance to match the 50 Ω output impedance of most radio frequency (RF) generators. Simulation and experimental results show that nearly perfect matching is achieved without using any matching circuit. At the matching condition, the transducer operates at a frequency band a little bit below the half-wavelength resonant frequency of the piezoelectric plate. In experiments, lead titanate (PT) piezoelectric plates were employed. Both full-size, 11.5 mm × 2 mm × 0.4 mm, and half-size, 5.75 mm × 2 mm × 0.4 mm, can be well matched using optimal silver epoxy thickness. The transducer assemblies demonstrate high efficiency. The conversion loss from electrical power to acoustic power in soda-lime glass is 4.3 dB. This loss is low considering the fact that the transducers operate at off-resonance by 12%. With proper choice of silver epoxy thickness, the transducer can be matched at the fundamental, the 3rd and 5th harmonic frequencies. This leads to the possible realization of triple-band transducers. Reliability was assessed with thermal cycling test according to Telcordia GR-468-Core recommendation. Of the 30 transducer assemblies tested, none broke until 2900 cycles and 27 have sustained beyond 4050 cycles.     

高功率低阻抗三平板传输线的设计

设计了Z箍缩实验装置中单路模块样机的低阻抗水介质三平板结构的传输线。根据三平板传输线的结构参数及相关计算公式,得到所设计的三平板传输线实际阻抗为4.08Ω(设计阻抗为4.00Ω)。在考虑传输线内板边缘与水箱耦合电容影响的条件下,采用有限元方法精确计算得到三平板传输线阻抗为3.77Ω。根据实验得到的传输线入口、出口电压电流测量结果,计算得到三平板传输线的实际运行阻抗为3.83Ω,与计算结果基本一致。另外,还对三平板传输线进行了静电场计算和分析,耐压实验表明,当三平板传输线出口电压达到3.1 MV时,未出现绝缘闪络,绝缘设计满足指标要求。     

高功率低阻抗三平板传输线的设计

设计了Z箍缩实验装置中单路模块样机的低阻抗水介质三平板结构的传输线。根据三平板传输线的结构参数及相关计算公式,得到所设计的三平板传输线实际阻抗为4.08 Ω（设计阻抗为4.00 Ω）。在考虑传输线内板边缘与水箱耦合电容影响的条件下,采用有限元方法精确计算得到三平板传输线阻抗为3.77 Ω。根据实验得到的传输线入口、出口电压电流测量结果,计算得到三平板传输线的实际运行阻抗为3.83 Ω,与计算结果基本一致。另外,还对三平板传输线进行了静电场计算和分析,耐压实验表明,当三平板传输线出口电压达到3.1 MV时,未出现绝缘闪络,绝缘设计满足指标要求。     

Manipulation of extraordinary acoustic transmission by a tunable bull’s eye structure

Extraordinary acoustic transmission （EAT） has been investigated in a tunable bull＇s eye structure. We demonstrate that the transmission coefficient of acoustic waves can be modulated by a grating structure. When the grating is located at a distance of 0.5 mm from the base plate, the acoustic transmission shows an 8.77-fold enhancement compared to that by using a traditional bull＇s eye structure. When the distance increases to 1.5 mm, the transmission approaches zero, indicating a total reflection. Thus, we can make an efficient modulation of acoustic transmission from 0 to 877%. The EAT effects have been ascribed to the coupling of structure-induced resonance with the diffractive wave and the waveguide modes, as well as the Fabry-Perot resonances. As a potential application, the modulation of far-field collimation is illustrated in the proposed bull＇s eye structure.     

Dynamically controlled asymmetric transmission of linearly polarized waves in VO2-integrated Dirac semimetal metamaterials

We numerically demonstrated a novel chiral metamaterial to achieve broadband asymmetric transmission (AT) of linearly polarized electromagnetic waves in terahertz (THz) band. The proposed metamaterial unit cell exhibits no rotational symmetry with vanadium dioxide (VO$_{2}$) inclusion embedded between Dirac semimetals (DSMs) pattern. The resonant frequency of AT can be dynamically tunable by varying the Fermi energy ($E_{\rm F}$) of the DSMs. The insulator-to-metal phase transition of VO$_{2}$ enables the amplitude of the AT to be dynamically tailored. The transmission coefficient $|T_{yx}|$ can be adjusted from 0.756 to nearly 0 by modifying the conductivity of VO$_{2}$. Meanwhile, the AT parameter intensity of linearly polarized incidence can be actively controlled from 0.55 to almost 0, leading to a switch for AT. When VO$_{2}$ is in its insulator state, the proposed device achieves broadband AT parameter greater than 0.5 from 1.21 THz to 1.80 THz with a bandwidth of 0.59 THz. When the incident wave propagates along the backward ($-z$) direction, the cross-polarized transmission $|T_{yx}|$ reaches a peak value 0.756 at 1.32 THz, whereas the value of $|T_{xy}|$ well below 0.157 in the concerned frequency. On the other hand, the co-polarized transmission $|T_{xx}|$ and $|T_{yy}|$ remained equal in the whole frequency range. This work provides a novel approach in developing broadband, tunable, as well as switchable AT electromagnetic devices.     

A planar chiral nanostructure with asymmetric transmission of linearly polarized wave and huge optical activity in near-infrared band

Just like an electronic diode that allows the electrical current to flow in one direction only, a kind of chiral metamaterial structure with a similar functionality for the electromagnetic wave is proposed. The designed nanostructure that consists of twisted metallic split-ring resonators on both sides of a dielectric substrate achieves asymmetric transmission for a forward and backward propagating linearly polarized wave by numerical simulation in near-infrared band. Difference in transmission efficiency of the optimized structure between the same polarized waves incident from opposite directions can reach a maximum at the communication wavelength （1.55 μm）. Moreover, the simulation results of this structure also exhibit strong optical activity and circular dichroism.     

声阻抗转换器的研究

描述不均匀传输线中的声反射系数可以归结为求解一种非线性微分方程（Riccati方程），本文探索一条寻找此类方程解析解的新方法，并利用此方法研究了声阻抗转换器，从而大大拓宽了声阻抗转换器阻抗分布的研究范围，作为例子，本文提出了几种阻抗变换形式，并把它们的功率传输效率与已有的均匀及指数型转换器作比较，计算结果表明：当转换器两端与传输介质的阻抗跃变很大时，某些阻抗转换器的传输效率比均匀及指数型转换器高得多．     

Ultrasonic surface acoustic wave-assisted separation of microscale droplets with varying acoustic impedance

In droplet-based microfluidic platforms, precise separation of microscale droplets of different chemical composition is increasingly necessary for high-throughput combinatorial chemistry in drug discovery and screening assays. A variety of droplet sorting methods have been proposed, in which droplets of the same kind are translocated. However, there has been relatively less effort in developing techniques to separate the uniform-sized droplets of different chemical composition. Most of the previous droplet sorting or separation techniques either rely on the droplet size for the separation marker or adopt on-demand application of a force field for the droplet sorting or separation. The existing droplet microfluidic separation techniques based on the in-droplet chemical composition are still in infancy because of the technical difficulties. In this study, we propose an acoustofluidic method to simultaneously separate microscale droplets of the same volume and dissimilar acoustic impedance using ultrasonic surface acoustic wave (SAW)-induced acoustic radiation force (ARF). For extensive investigation on the SAW-induced ARF acting on both cylindrical and spherical droplets, we first performed a set of the droplet sorting experiments under varying conditions of acoustic impedance of the dispersed phase fluid, droplet velocity, and wave amplitude. Moreover, for elucidation of the underlying physics, a new dimensionless number AR_D was introduced, which was defined as the ratio of the ARF to the drag force acting on the droplets. The experimental results were comparatively analyzed by using a ray acoustics approach and found to be in good agreement with the theoretical estimation. Based on the findings, we successfully demonstrated the simultaneous separation of uniform-sized droplets of the different acoustic impedance under continuous application of the acoustic field in a label-free and detection-free manner. Insomuch as on-chip, precise separation of multiple kinds of droplets is critical in many droplet microfluidic applications, the proposed acoustofluidic approach will provide new prospects for microscale droplet separation.     

Reconstruction of the acoustic impedance profile in a plate using an inverse spectral procedure

An inverse spectral procedure was applied to reconstruct the acoustic impedance profile along the thickness direction of a plate using its thickness resonance frequencies, density and thickness. For a successful reconstruction, the material-property profile must be symmetric about the mid-plane of the plate. Several cases of numerical simulations, including plates with a few layers and with a high number of layers are described. The calculated resonance frequencies were used to reconstruct the acoustic impedance profile, a process that was successful for all cases. We assume that a plate with a high number of layers, each with a different but constant acoustic impedance, simulates a plate with a smoothly varying acoustic impedance profile. It can be concluded that such a plate, which generates small, virtually undetectable, internally reflected waves, can also be reconstructed. In the special case of a plate of unknown thickness and unknown but constant density, the method is still useful, because a relative variation of the material property can be reconstructed using only the resonance frequencies. An experiment using a resonance-mode electromagnetic acoustic transducer (resonance-mode EMAT) is also described. EMAT is a non-contact ultrasonic method that can measure thickness resonance frequencies, making it appropriate for this method. Some examples of applications are measurement of the temperature profile inside a rolled metal sheet, measurement of a clad metal plate, and monitoring of a metal casting.     

基于传输线模型的高阻表面反射相位分析

采用传输线模型对高阻表面表面阻抗进行建模,准确计算垂直入射条件下高阻表面的反射相位.在垂直入射条件下,过孔的影响可以忽略,将高阻表面等效为具有容性的贴片阵与具有感性的介质层的并联,利用传输线原理求得高阻表面的反射系数,再得到其反射相位.计算了不同参数的高阻表面反射相位,传输线模型计算反射相位与数值方法计算结果符合较好.制作了不同参数的高阻表面并测量其反射相位,实验结果表明传输线模型计算反射相位结果与测量结果基本符合,证明了传输线模型的正确性. 关键词： 高阻表面 反射相位 传输线模型     

基于二维六方氮化硼材料的光子晶体非对称传输异质结构设计

二维六方氮化硼(hexagonal boron nitride,hBN)材料在产生光学稳定的超亮量子单光子光源领域有着潜在应用,有望用于量子计算和信息处理平台,已成为研究热点.而光学非对称传输设备是集成量子计算芯片中的关键器件之一.本文从理论上提出了一种基于hBN材料光子晶体异质结构的纳米光子学非对称光传输器件.运用平...     

Vibro-acoustic behaviors of an elastically restrained double-panel structure with an acoustic cavity of arbitrary boundary impedance

An analytical study on the vibro-acoustic behaviors of a double-panel structure with an acoustic cavity is presented. Unlike the existing studies, a structural–acoustic coupling model of an elastically restrained double-panel structure with an acoustic cavity having arbitrary impedance on sidewalls around the cavity is developed in which the two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) modified Fourier series are used to represent the displacement of the panels and the sound pressure inside the cavity, respectively. The unknown expansions coefficients are treated as the generalized coordinates and the Rayleigh–Ritz method is employed to determine displacement and sound pressure solutions based on the energy expressions for the coupled structural–acoustic system. The effectiveness and accuracy of the present model is validated by numerical example and comparison with finite element method (FEM) and existing analytical method, with good agreement achieved. The influence of key parameters on the vibro-acoustic behaviors and sound transmission of the double-panel structure is investigated, including: cavity thickness, boundary conditions, sidewall impedance, and the acoustic medium in the cavity.