Dynamic cloaking of a diamond-shaped hole in elastic plate

Kun Tang, Eitam Luz, David Amram, Luna Kadysz, Sébastien Guenneau, Patrick Sebbah

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Abstract

Invisibility cloaks for flexural waves have mostly been examined in a continuous-wave regime, while invisibility is likely to deteriorate for short pulses. Here, we propose the practical realization of a unidirectional invisibility cloak for flexural waves based on an area-preserving coordinate transformation. Time-resolved experiments reveal how the invisibility cloak deviates a pulsed plane wave from its initial trajectory and how the initial wavefront perfectly recombines behind the cloak, leaving the diamond-shaped hole invisible, notwithstanding the appearance of a forerunner. Three-dimensional full-elasticity simulations support our experimental observations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number011701
Number of pages7
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume122
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jan 2023

Bibliographical note

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Funding

The authors thank Dr. Leonid Wolfson for preparing the experimental setup. This research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 1871/15, 2074/15, and 2630/20), the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation NSF/BSF (Grant Nos. 2015694 and 2021811), and the Youth Foundation Project of Zhejiang Lab (Grant No. 2020MC0AA07). P.S. is thankful to the CNRS support under grant PICS-ALAMO.

FundersFunder number
Youth Foundation Project of Zhejiang Lab2020MC0AA07
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation2015694, 2021811
Israel Science Foundation2074/15, 1871/15, 2630/20
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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