Acoustic cloaking by extraordinary sound transmission

Isotropic acoustic cloaking is proposed using density-near-zero materials for extraordinary sound transmission. The cloaking cell is made by single-piece homogeneous elastic copper, which can be detached and assembled arbitrarily. We theoretically and numerically demonstrate the cloaking performance by deploying density-near-zero cells in various ways in two-dimensional space as well as in acoustic waveguides. The density-near-zero material can make any inside objects imperceptible along undistorted sound paths. Individually and collectively, the cloaking cell maintains both the planar wavefront and the nearly perfect one-dimensional transmission, in presence of any inserted object. The overall cloaked space can be designed by adding cells without the limit of the total cloaked volume. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.