Abstract
Film-type shape-configurable speakers with tunable sound directivity are in high demand for wearable electronics. Flexible, thin thermoacoustic (TA) loudspeakers-which are free from bulky vibrating diaphragms-show promise in this regard. However, configuring thin TA loudspeakers into arbitrary shapes is challenging because of their low sound pressure level (SPL) under mechanical deformations and low conformability to other surfaces. By carefully controlling the heat-capacity-per-unit-area and thermal effusivity of an MXene conductor and substrates, respectively, we fabricated an ultrathin MXene-based TA loudspeaker exhibiting high SPL output (74.5dB at 15kHz) and stable sound performance for 14 days. Loudspeakers with the parylene substrate, whose thickness was less than the thermal penetration depth, generated bidirectional and deformation-independent sound in bent, twisted, cylindrical, and stretched-kirigami configurations. Furthermore, we constructed parabolic and spherical versions of ultrathin, large-area (20cm × 20cm) MXene-based TA loudspeakers, which displayed sound-focusing and 3D omnidirectional-sound-generating attributes, respectively. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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