Design and characterization of bubble phononic crystals

Valentin Leroy (1) , Alice Bretagne (1) , Mathias Fink (1) , Herve Willaime (2) , Patrick Tabeling (2) , Arnaud Tourin (1)

1 LOA - Laboratoire Ondes et Acoustique (UMR 7587)
2 Gulliver (UMR 7083)

We report the practical realization of phononic crystals with gas inclusions, using soft lithography techniques. Ultrasonic experiments from 0.3 to 5 MHz confirm the existence of deep and wide minima of transmission through the crystal. We show that the first gap is due to the combined effects of Bragg reflections and bubble resonances. We propose a simple layered model that gives a reasonable prediction of the ultrasonic transmission. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3254243]

Domaines: Acoustique [physics.class-ph]; Acoustique [physics.class-ph]

Valentin Leroy, Alice Bretagne, Mathias Fink, Herve Willaime, Patrick Tabeling, et al.. Design and characterization of bubble phononic crystals. Applied Physics Letters, 2009, 95 (17), pp.1. ⟨10.1063/1.3254243⟩. ⟨hal-00515482⟩