Abstract
Advances in thermophone transduction from the perspective of novel nanostructured materials, device design, and signal processing will be presented. The comparison of studied 2D and 3D networks of nanostructured materials with aerogel structures will be given. The energy conversion efficiency of encapsulated thermoacoustic devices excited by short pulses with varying duty cycle, shape of pulse, and carrier signal frequency will be analyzed for a variety of fabricated devices. I will provide an extensive experimental study of pulse excitation in different thermodynamic regimes for freestanding carbon nanotube sheets with varying thermal inertias (single-wall, multi-wall with varying diameters, and number of superimposed sheets) in vacuum and in air. The experimental observations are rationalized within a basic theoretical framework. The acoustical and geometrical parameters providing further increase in efficiency and transduction performance for open and closed resonant systems will be discussed. [Research supported by ONR, Grant No.: N00014-17-1-2521.]
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