Giant extraordinary transmission of acoustic waves through a nanowire
Open Access
- 1 March 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science Advances
- Vol. 6 (10), eaay8507
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay8507
Abstract
Wave concentration beyond the diffraction limit by transmission through subwavelength structures has proved to be a milestone in high-resolution imaging. Here, we show that a sound wave incident inside a solid over a diameter of 110 nm can be squeezed through a resonant meta-atom consisting of a nanowire with a diameter of 5 nm equal to lambda/23, where lambda is the incident acoustic wavelength, corresponding to a transmission efficiency of 500 or an energy densification of similar to 14,000. This remarkable level of extraordinary acoustic transmission is achieved in the absence of ultrasonic attenuation by connecting a tungsten nanowire between two tungsten blocks, the block on the input side being furnished with concentric grooves. We also demonstrate that these "solid organ pipes" exhibit Rayleigh end corrections to their effective longitudinal resonant lengths notably larger than their in-air analogs. Grooves on the output side lead to in-solid directed acoustic beams, important for nanosensing.Funding Information
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology
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