Publications by Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

Acoustic Supercoupling in a Zero-Compressibility Waveguide

Funneling acoustic waves through largely mismatched channels is of fundamental importance to tailor and transmit sound for a variety of applications. In electromagnetics, zero-permittivity metamaterials have been used to enhance the coupling of energy in a ...

2019

Electromagnetic Inspired Acoustic Metamaterials : Studying the Applications of Sound-Metastructures Interactions Based on Different Wave Phenomena

Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

This thesis deals with electromagnetic inspired acoustic metamaterials, enabling sound-matter interactions in different wave scenarios that include propagation, guided-waves, radiation, refraction, reflection and transmission. To this end, a particular emp ...

EPFL2017

Generation of acoustic helical wavefronts using metasurfaces

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

It has been shown that acoustic waves with helical wavefronts can carry angular momentum, which can be transmitted towards a propagating medium. Such a wave field can be achieved by using a planar array of electroacoustic transducers, forming a given spati ...

2017

Development of Leaky-Wave Antenna Applications with Acoustics Metamaterials: from the Acoustic Dispersive Prism to Sound Direction Finding with a Single Microphone

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani, Sami Driss Karkar

Recent studies have focused on developing metamaterials for acoustic applications, inspired by electromagnetics concepts. The acoustic leaky-wave antenna is amongst the most investigated. Despite the unfavourable properties of conventional matter and struc ...

IEEE2017

Exploiting the leaky-wave properties of transmission-line metamaterials for single-microphone direction finding

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani, Sami Driss Karkar

A transmission-line acoustic metamaterial is an engineered, periodic arrangement of relatively small unit-cells, the acoustic properties of which can be manipulated to achieve anomalous physical behaviours. These exotic properties open the door to practica ...

2016

Acoustic carpet cloak based on an ultrathin metasurface

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani, Sami Driss Karkar

An acoustic metasurface carpet cloak based on membrane-capped cavities is proposed and investigated numerically. This design has been chosen for allowing ultrathin geometries, although adapted to airborne sound frequencies in the range of 1 kHz (λ≈30 cm), ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Electromagnetic inspired acoustic leaky-wave antenna

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani, Sami Driss Karkar

In this article we make an analogy between Electromagnetic and Acoustic transmission-line modelling. Then we use this to introduce acoustic transmission-line metamaterials and finally we introduce the acoustic leaky-wave antenna on the basis of previous st ...

IEEE2016

Développement et validation d’une d’antenne acoustique à ondes de fuite

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani, Sami Driss Karkar

Les métamatériaux acoustiques désignent des structures acoustiques présentant des propriétés inédites dans la nature, comme une masse négative et/ou un module de compressibilité négatif. Une réalisation de type ligne de transmission unidimensionnelle, cons ...

2016

Acoustic dispersive prism

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani, Sami Driss Karkar

The optical dispersive prism is a well-studied element, which allows separating white light into its constituent spectral colors, and stands in nature as water droplets. In analogy to this definition, the acoustic dispersive prism should be an acoustic dev ...

Nature Research2016

Acoustic Metasurface

Hervé Lissek, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani, Sami Driss Karkar

Metasurfaces have gained fame for their ability to control the transmitted and reflected phase front of waves. Here, we introduce a reflector-type acoustic metasurface designed in such a way to control the phase front of reflected sound waves. The proposed ...

2015

On the design of unit-cells for acoustic metasurfaces

Hervé Lissek, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani, Sami Driss Karkar

Acoustic metasurfaces have gained popularity for their capability to tailor the phase front of transmitted and reflected waves. While most of researches conducted in this topic are spinning around different applications and peculiar physics of these surfac ...

IEEE2015

Acoustic Leaky-Wave Antenna

Hervé Lissek, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani, Sami Driss Karkar

In the last years, the number of studies carried out in the field of acoustic metamaterials has significantly increased. In year 2009, our group proposed a concept of acoustic composite right/left hand transmission line (CRLH-TL) metamaterial, consisting o ...

2014

Optimization of an acoustic leaky-wave antenna based on acoustic metamaterial

Hervé Lissek, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani, Sami Driss Karkar

In recent years, an increasing number of pioneering studies have been carried out in the field of acoustic metamaterials, following the path of electromagnetic metamaterials. These artificial engineered materials are designed in such a way so as to achieve ...

2013