The spiral-labyrinthine acoustic metamaterial by coiling up space

Abstract

We design an acoustic metamaterial by coiling up space, namely the spiral-labyrinthine acoustic metamaterial (SLAM). The transmission coefficient illustrates that the SLAM exhibits extraordinary abilities for sound absorption at the two dips with a subwavelength scale. Even at the extremely small filling ratio, the corresponding transmission loss at the two dip frequencies are also up to 99%. The reason is that the monopolar resonance and the dipolar resonance can remarkably concentrate the energy of sound wave. A much wider frequency range between the monopolar resonant frequency and the dipolar resonant frequency can be obtained by the SLAMs for sound blocking. The SLAM has many other interesting applications, such as the acoustic cloaking and the sound supertunneling.