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A Soft 3D Acoustic Metafluid with Dual-Band Negative Refractive Index
Simon Raffy1, Benoit Mascaro2, Thomas Brunet2
1CRPP, University of Bordeaux, CNRS, UPR 8641, Pessac, 33600, France.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|December 17, 2015
Abstract:
Spherical silica xerogels are efficient acoustic Mie resonators. When these sub-wavelength inclusions are dispersed in a matrix, the final metafluid may display a negative acoustic refractive index upon a set of precise constraints concerning material properties, concentration, size, and dispersity of the inclusions. Because xerogels may sustain both pressure and shear waves, several bands with negative index can be tailored.

