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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2020

Experimental realization of a reconfigurable electroacoustic topological insulator

Amir Darabi
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Michael Leamy
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A substantial challenge in guiding elastic waves is the presence of reflection and scattering at sharp edges, defects, and disorder. Recently, mechanical topological insulators have sought to overcome this challenge by supporting back-scattering resistant wave transmission. In this Letter, we propose and experimentally demonstrate the first reconfigurable electroacoustic topological insulator exhibiting an analog to the quantum valley Hall effect (QVHE). Using programmable switches, this phononic structure allows for rapid reconfiguration of domain walls and thus the ability to control back-scattering resistant wave propagation along dynamic interfaces for phonons lying in static and finite-frequency regimes. Accordingly, a graphene-like Polyactic Acid (PLA) layer serves as the host medium, equipped with periodically arranged and bonded piezoelectric patches, resulting in two Dirac cones at the K−points. The PZT patches are then connected to negative capacitance external circuits to break inversion symmetry and create nontrivial topologically-protected bandgaps. As such, topologically protected interface waves are demonstrated numerically and validated experimentally for different predefined trajectories over a broad frequency range.
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hal-03026223 , version 1 (26-11-2020)

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Amir Darabi, Manuel Collet, Michael Leamy. Experimental realization of a reconfigurable electroacoustic topological insulator. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020, 117 (28), pp.16138-16142. ⟨10.1073/pnas.1920549117⟩. ⟨hal-03026223⟩
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