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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 108, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4945664
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51275519, 51305448]
- Aeronautical Science Fund [2015ZA88003]
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Insulating low-frequency sound is a conventional challenge due to the high areal mass required by mass law. In this letter, we propose a smart acoustic metasurface consisting of an ultra-thin aluminum foil bonded with piezoelectric resonators. Numerical and experimental results show that the metasurface can break the conventional mass law of sound insulation by 30 dB in the low frequency regime (<1000 Hz), with an ultra-light areal mass density (<1.6 kg/m(2)) and an ultra-thin thickness (1000 times smaller than the operating wavelength). The underlying physical mechanism of such extraordinary sound insulation performance is attributed to the infinite effective dynamic mass density produced by the smart resonators. It is also demonstrated that the excellent sound insulation property can be conveniently tuned by simply adjusting the external circuits instead of modifying the structure of the metasurface. (C) 2016 AIP Publishing LLC.
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