Coiling-Up Space Metasurface for High-Efficient and Wide-angle Acoustic Wavefront Steering

Abstract

The recent advent of acoustic metasurface displays tremendous potential with their unique and flexible capabilities of wavefront manipulations. In this paper, we propose an acoustic metagrating made of binary coiling-up space structures to coherently control the acoustic wavefront steering. The acoustic wave steering is based on the in-plane coherent modulation of waves in different diffraction channels. The acoustic metagrating structure with a subwavelength thickness is realized with 3D printed two coiling-up space metaunits. By adjusting structural parameters of the metaunits, the −1st-order diffraction mode can be retained, and the rest of the diffraction orders are eliminated as much as possible through destructive interference, forming a high-efficiency anomalous reflection in the scattering field. The anomalous reflection performance of the designed metagrating is achieved over a wide range of incident angles with high efficiency.