Acoustic frequency filter based on anisotropic topological phononic crystals

Ze Guo Chen, Jiajun Zhao, Jun Mei, Ying Wu*

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Abstract

We present a design of acoustic frequency filter based on a two-dimensional anisotropic phononic crystal. The anisotropic band structure exhibits either a directional or a combined (global + directional) bandgap at certain frequency regions, depending on the geometry. When the time-reversal symmetry is broken, it may introduce a topologically nontrivial bandgap. The induced nontrivial bandgap and the original directional bandgap result in various interesting wave propagation behaviors, such as frequency filter. We develop a tight-binding model to characterize the effective Hamiltonian of the system, from which the contribution of anisotropy is explicitly shown. Different from the isotropic cases, the Zeeman-type splitting is not linear and the anisotropic bandgap makes it possible to achieve anisotropic propagation characteristics along different directions and at different frequencies.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number15005
JournalScientific Reports
Volume7
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2017

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