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We study sound transmission through plates perforated with subwavelength holes. Experimental results are analyzed in the light of both a rigid solid model as well as a full elasto-acoustic theory. A discussion comparing sound and optics is given based upon an analytical framework. We show that, unlike light, sound is transmitted through individual subwavelength holes, in a perfectly rigid thin film approximately in proportion to their area. Moreover, hole arrays in perfectly rigid thin films do not exhibit full sound transmission due to the absence of lattice resonances. Therefore, the resonant full transmission observed in hole arrays is not extraordinary in the case of sound. However extraordinary sound screening well beyond that predicted by the mass law is observed. Finally, we find a strong interplay between Wood anomaly minima and intrinsic plate modes (Lamb modes), which results in fundamentally unique behavior of sound as compared to light.
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The authors wish to acknowledge financial support from projects MICINN MAT2010-16879, Consolider Nanolight.es CSD-2007-0046 of the Spanish Education and Science Ministry, and project PROMETEO/2010/043 of Generalitat Valenciana. H.E. acknowledges a CSIC-JAE scholarship.
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Estrada, H., García de Abajo, F.J., Candelas, P., Uris, A., Belmar, F., Meseguer, F. (2013). Ultrasound Transmission Through Periodically Perforated Plates. In: Craster, R., Guenneau, S. (eds) Acoustic Metamaterials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 166. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4813-2_4
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