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Three-dimensional ultrasound subwavelength arbitrary focusing with broadband sparse metalens

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Ultrasound focusing in three-dimensional (3D) space is of crucial and enduring significance in a variety of biomedical and industrial applications. Conventional ultrasound focusing based on active phase array or passive geometry of bulky size is unable to realize the 3D arbitrary focusing with subwavelength resolution. Acoustic metamaterial of complex deep-subwavelength microstructure has facilitated the advanced airborne-sound-focusing but is inevitably not applicable for underwater ultrasound, restricted by the law between the multi-modes coupling/thermal viscosity and the feature size of the structure. Here, we aim to circumvent the restriction by increasing the feature size of the metamaterial while keeping the compact overall geometry, and realize the robust subwavelength ultrasound focusing with the sparse metalens of the wavelength-scale meta-atom. We theoretically propose and demonstrate numerically and experimentally the broadband arbitrary ultrasound focusing in 3D space. The axial and off-axis ultrasound focusing with the subwavelength resolution (FWHM<0.58λ) are achieved by the spatially sparse and compact metalens within one-octave bandwidth. With advantages of 3D freewheeling focusing, subwavelength resolution, spatial sparsity, geometric simplicity, and broadband, the sparse metalens would offer more initiatives to advanced researches in ultrasound focusing and empower applications such as precise biomedical imaging and therapy, nondestructive evaluation, integrated and multiplexed ultrasound devices.

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  1. Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China

    Xue Jiang, JiaJie He, ChuanXin Zhang, HuaLiang Zhao, WeiQi Wang & DeAn Ta

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117583, Singapore

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11904055, 12034005, and 11827808), the STCSM Science and Technology Innovation Plan of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission (Grant Nos. 20ZR1404200, and 21JC1400300), the Shanghai Chenguang Program (Grant No. 20CG02), the Program of Shanghai Academic Research Leader (Grant No. 19XD1400500), and the Independent Research Project from State Key Laboratory of ASIC and System (Grant No. 2021MS007).

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Jiang, X., He, J., Zhang, C. et al. Three-dimensional ultrasound subwavelength arbitrary focusing with broadband sparse metalens. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 65, 224311 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-021-1784-3

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