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SUBMITTER: Stein M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9626492 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20221101 1
Waves impart momentum and exert force on obstacles in their path. The transfer of wave momentum is a fundamental mechanism for contactless manipulation, yet the rules of conventional scattering intrinsically limit the radiation force based on the shape and the size of the manipulated object. Here, we show that this intrinsic limit can be broken for acoustic waves with subwavelength-structured surfaces (metasurfaces), where the force becomes controllable by the arrangement of surface features, in ...[more]