Thermal Expansion of Hybrid Chiral Mechanical Metamaterial with Patterned Bi-Strips

Hybrid chiral mechanical metamaterials with center squares connecting by bi-layer strips (bi-strips) with patterned interfaces are designed and fabricated via multimaterial 3D printing. Due to the thermal mismatch between the bi-strips and the chirality-induced rotation, the designs will undergo either thermal expansion or shrinkage under constant temperature increase, resulting in widely tuned overall thermal expansion coefficients (CTEs) for the chiral mechanical metamaterials. Analytical models of both the bi-strips with arbitrary dissimilar interface morphology and the chiral designs under temperature change are developed to predict the curvature of the bi-strips and the overall CTEs of the chiral designs. Two design regions with opposite trends are observed and explored. The models are verified via systematic finite element (FE) simulations and experiments on 3D-printed specimens. This investigation enlarges the design space of chiral mechanical metamaterials for achieving desired CTEs in a wide range.     

超材料的应用及制备技术研究进展

超材料是一类具有特殊性质、自然界中并不存在的人造材料。综述了单负超材料和左手超材料构型的研究进展和超材料在超分辨成像、电磁隐身和电磁吸波体等方面的应用。同时也对国内外主要超材料制备技术进行了分类和概述,包括电子束光刻、纳米压印技术和聚焦离子束技术等。最后对超材料的发展方向和应用方向进行了展望。     

Scattering characteristics of a chiral-coated cylindrical reflector embedded in a double-negative metamaterial

The scattering characteristics of a cylindrical reflector coated with a chiral material and embedded in a double-negative metamaterial have been studied using numerical simulation. The effects of double-negative metamaterial background media and chiral admittances of a chiral coating layer upon the co- and cross-polarized echo widths have been investigated. It is shown that a double-negative metamaterial background with relatively larger negative values of the permittivity and the permeability enhances the co-polarized echo width in the forward scattering direction and reduces this echo width in the backward scattering direction as compared to the free space background. It is further shown that by increasing the chiral admittance of a chiral-coated cylindrical reflector embedded in a double-negative metamaterial with fixed background parameters increases the co-polarized echo width in the forward and the backward scattering directions as compared to an achiral-coated cylindrical reflector embedded in the same double-negative metamaterial background.     

Terahertz narrow bandstop, broad bandpass filter using double-layer S-shaped metamaterials

Abstract In this study, double-layer S-shaped metamaterials （MMs） are analyzed by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. These materials exhibit narrow bandstop and broad bandpass transmission properties at both horizontal and vertical electric-field polarizations. A 117% increase in the unloaded quality factor is experimen- tally observed for these materials. The center frequency is approximately 0.45 THz, with a 3-dB bandwidth of 0.52 THz from 0.20 to 0.72 THz at normal incidence. The measured average insertion loss is 0.5 dB with a ripple of 1 dB. These results show that double-layer S-shaped MMs are effective in designing tunable terahertz devices.     

分布式通风隔声罩的设计和效果研究

针对动力设备同时满足降噪和散热的需求,提出一种周期分布式结构的通风隔声罩。隔声罩的罩壁内嵌通风消声单元,声波衰减的同时,气流可顺利通过罩壁进行耗散。介绍了分布式通风隔声罩的设计,并对其隔声性能进行了理论计算。通过分布式通风隔声罩对三种不同设备的插入损失分别进行了实际测量和分析。研究结果表明,在通过频率以上,隔声罩插入损失的计算值和实测值吻合较好,分布式通风隔声罩在其通过频率以上具有良好的隔声效果。该分布式通风隔声罩的有效降噪频率可根据不同声源的频率特性进行专一设计,适用于各种需要通风散热的设备的隔声。     

基于双磁介质层复合的超材料低频吸波体研究

本研究将磁性吸波涂层融入至超材料的结构设计中,得到了一种新型低频复合超材料吸波体,吸波体由环形电阻膜、双层磁性吸波涂层和金属背板组成。采用CST仿真软件计算了超材料吸波体的吸收性能,研究了吸波体各个结构参数对吸收性能的影响。仿真结果表明,设计的超材料吸波体厚度为2.5 mm时,在1.9和4 GHz处存在2个吸收峰,在1.59～6.59GHz频率范围内反射损耗低于-8dB,吸收带宽达到5GHz。通过吸波体电磁场分布对吸波机理进行了讨论。结果表明,吸波体低频吸收带宽的增加是由于表面的电阻膜图案改变了超材料吸波体的电场分布和磁场分布,促进了磁介质层的损耗。最后制备了吸波体样品并进行了反射率测试,实物测试结果与仿真结果基本一致,说明设计制备的吸波体具有优异的低频吸波性能,吸波带宽相比磁性吸波涂层大幅提高。     

Compact SCSRR-based quad-band antenna for Bluetooth,WiMAX, WLAN,and fixed-satellite services

This research describes the detailed analysis and design of the compact complex-free structural metamaterial quad band radiating element applicable for Bluetooth, WiMAX, WLAN, and fixed-satellite service. The radiating element designed is composed of an inner angle-rotated circular Split Ring Resonator (SRR) placed within the outer square-shaped SRR interlinked by a strip to design the multiband operational characteristics and is fed by a coplanar waveguide. Suggested radiating element is imprinted over the FR4 substrate material with the electrical dimension of 28 × 31.26 × 0.8 mm³. The initial outer-closed square ring offers dual-band operation by resonating at 2.8 and 8.5 GHz frequencies, and the incorporation of a circular SRR offers quad-band operation. The unique negative permeability feature of the proposed Square and Circular Split Ring Resonator (SCSRR) structure is extracted, and its band characteristics are analyzed. Results obtained from the simulated radiating element are validated with the fabricated antenna. The measured E plane pattern resembles a numeric eight shape, and the H plane pattern is omnidirectional. Suggested SCSRR antenna offers a gain of above 3.2 dBi in all the operating bands.     

隐形斗篷的研究

基于坐标变换理论设计了菱形、不规则四边形和扇形隐形斗篷。利用COMSOL Mul-tiphysics对其进行仿真得到,覆盖斗篷后电磁场可以"拐弯"绕着物体走,斗篷内部区域未受到电磁场干扰,隐形效果均得到了较好的证实。这三种形状的隐形斗篷比圆柱形和球形斗篷更为常见,因而在减少物体的雷达散射截面(RCS)方面具有更为广泛的实用性。     

超颖材料在隐身方面的应用进展

超颖材料的奇异特性和近几年的研究进展使该材料成为人们研究的重点，其发展前景引起了学术界，产业界，尤其是军方的无限遐想。针对超颖材料在隐身方面的应用对其基本特性和实验成果进行了总结，并对该材料在隐身和其它方面的应用前景进行了描述。     

“超材料”结构吸波复合材料技术研究

研究了"超材料"结构吸波复合材料的制备技术及其力学性能与电性能。通过突破不同尺寸金属周期结构单元制备、金属周期结构单元转移、含金属周期结构单元吸波复合材料工艺参数优化等关键技术,制备出电性能和力学性能批次间稳定性良好的含多层金属周期结构单元的"超材料"结构吸波复合材料,"超材料"结构吸波复合材料在2~18GHz频率范围具有宽频高吸收的特性。