I-Corps: Light Modulated Acoustic Devices

I-Corps：光调制声学设备

• 批准号: 1357118
• 负责人: Arup Neogi
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of North Texas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-03-01 至 2014-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1357118&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Light; Modulated; Acoustic; Devices

This proposal proposes to commercialize the technology, Light Modulated Acoustic Devices (LMAD) to translate basic research on photonic materials from the laboratory to the market place. Controlling sound actively using light is challenging and is considered to be one of the holy grail of acoustics technology due to the fundamental differences in the nature of the acoustic and electromagnetic waves. The PI and his team propose to commercialize the technology to photo-actively control phononic properties remotely using the novel dielectric properties of nanoparticles embedded in phononic crystals. Since phononics deals with vibrations, acoustic or otherwise, potential applications range from active, non-contact vibration dampening for vehicles and devices, to smart, high resolution ultrasound technology, to environmental technologies to actively reduce noise pollution. LMADs are part of the subcategory of technology of photonics, phononics.Greater dynamic flexibility in existing focused-sound technologies will be achieved via this technology. Active selective-filtering element for vibration dampening can be used to filter out selected unwanted vibration modes. Typical customers would consist of manufacturers of ultrasonic equipment for either hyperthermic biomedical, imaging, or structural characterization applications.

该提案提议将光调制声学器件（LMAD）技术商业化，将光子材料的基础研究从实验室转化为市场。利用光主动控制声音具有挑战性，由于声波和电磁波性质的根本差异，被认为是声学技术的圣杯之一。 PI 和他的团队提议将这项技术商业化，利用嵌入声子晶体中的纳米粒子的新颖介电特性，以光主动方式远程控制声子特性。由于声学涉及振动、声学或其他振动，因此潜在的应用范围从车辆和设备的主动、非接触式减振，到智能、高分辨率超声技术，再到主动减少噪声污染的环境技术。 LMAD 是光子学、声学技术子类别的一部分。通过该技术，现有聚焦声音技术将实现更大的动态灵活性。用于减振的主动选择性过滤元件可用于滤除选定的不需要的振动模式。典型的客户包括用于高温生物医学、成像或结构表征应用的超声波设备制造商。