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SUBMITTER: Spiousas I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4519286 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Spiousas Ignacio I Etchemendy Pablo E PE Vergara Ramiro O RO Calcagno Esteban R ER Eguia Manuel C MC
PloS one 20150729 7
In this work we report an illusion of proximity of a sound source created by a sonic crystal placed between the source and a listener. This effect seems, at first, paradoxical to naïve listeners since the sonic crystal is an obstacle formed by almost densely packed cylindrical scatterers. Even when the singular acoustical properties of these periodic composite materials have been studied extensively (including band gaps, deaf bands, negative refraction, and birrefringence), the possible perceptu ...[more]