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Optimization of an acoustic leaky-wave antenna based on acoustic metamaterial

Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

In recent years, an increasing number of pioneering studies have been carried out in the field of acoustic metamaterials, following the path of electromagnetic metamaterials. These artificial engineered materials are designed in such a way so as to achieve ...

2013

Acoustic dispersive prism

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

The optical dispersive prism is a well-studied element, which allows separating white light into its constituent spectral colors, and stands in nature as water droplets. In analogy to this definition, the acoustic dispersive prism should be an acoustic dev ...

Nature Research2016

Electroacoustic absorbers for the low-frequency modal equalization of a room: what is the optimal target impedance for maximum modal damping, depending on the total area of absorbers?

Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Sami Driss Karkar, Véronique Adam

Electroacoustic absorbers consist of loudspeakers, shunted with an electrical circuit designed to obtain a given acoustic impedance. Their design and principles are now well understood. Unidimensional experiments, using plane waves under normal incidence i ...

2014

Control strategies for a distributed active acoustic skin

Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar

New miniaturization and integration capabilities made available from the emerging MEMS technology allow for the design of artificial linings involving distribution of a large number of elementary cells, that may be composed of loudspeakers and microphones. ...

2015

Acoustic energy harvesting using electrochemical double layor capacitors: Technical feasibility and performance assessment

Mario Paolone, Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Dimitri Torregrossa

This paper describes a first prototype harvesting the acoustic energy using electrochemical storage devices. In particular, the harvesting system is composed by an Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors (EDLC) suitably coupled with an electroacoustic abso ...

IEEE2016

On the Optimisation of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Acoustic Impedances of Low-Frequency Electroacoustic Absorbers for Room Modal Equalisation

Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet

Low-frequency electroacoustic absorbers have recently been developed as a solution for the modal equalisation. Firstly investigated in waveguides, the technique consists in matching the acoustic impedance at a closed-box loudspeaker diaphragm to the charac ...

2017

Exploiting the leaky-wave properties of transmission-line metamaterials for single-microphone direction finding

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

A transmission-line acoustic metamaterial is an engineered, periodic arrangement of relatively small unit-cells, the acoustic properties of which can be manipulated to achieve anomalous physical behaviours. These exotic properties open the door to practica ...

2016

Design and experimental validation of an active acoustic liner for aircraft engine noise reduction

Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Romain Boulandet

The use of acoustic liners in aviation industry is a quite common solution for reducing the engines acoustic emissions. Although the current solutions based on single or multilayer liners are efficient and compact for the mid and high frequencies, noise mi ...

2017

Acoustic carpet cloak based on an ultrathin metasurface

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

An acoustic metasurface carpet cloak based on membrane-capped cavities is proposed and investigated numerically. This design has been chosen for allowing ultrathin geometries, although adapted to airborne sound frequencies in the range of 1 kHz (λ≈30 cm), ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Broadband Nonreciprocal Acoustic Propagation Using Programmable Boundary Conditions: From Analytical Modeling to Experimental Implementation

Sami Driss Karkar, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet

We theoretically, numerically and experimentally demonstrate the acoustic isolator effect in a one-dimensional waveguide with direction-dependent controlled boundary conditions. A theoretical model is used to explain the principle of nonreciprocal propagat ...

American Physical Society (APS)2019

Broadband Low-Frequency Electroacoustic Absorbers Through Hybrid Sensor-/Shunt-Based Impedance Control

Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet

This paper proposes a hybrid impedance control architecture for an electroacoustic absorber, that combines an improved microphone-based feedforward control with a currentdriven electrodynamic loudspeaker system. Feedforward control architecture enables sta ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Multi-degree-of-freedom low-frequency electroacoustic absorbers through coupled resonators

Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet

Electroacoustic absorbers represent an interesting solution for low-frequency sound absorption in rooms. These systems simply consist of closed-box electrodynamic loudspeakers, whose acoustic impedance at the diaphragm is judiciously adjusted by connecting ...

Elsevier2018

A comparative study of the harmonic balance method and the orthogonal collocation method on stiff nonlinear systems

Sami Driss Karkar

The high-order purely frequency-based harmonic balance method (HBM) presented by Cochelin and Vergez (2009) [1] and extended by Karkar et al. (2013) [2] now allows to follow the periodic solutions of regularized non-smooth systems (stiff systems). This pap ...

Elsevier2014

Electromagnetic inspired acoustic leaky-wave antenna

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

In this article we make an analogy between Electromagnetic and Acoustic transmission-line modelling. Then we use this to introduce acoustic transmission-line metamaterials and finally we introduce the acoustic leaky-wave antenna on the basis of previous st ...

IEEE2016

Development of Leaky-Wave Antenna Applications with Acoustics Metamaterials: from the Acoustic Dispersive Prism to Sound Direction Finding with a Single Microphone

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

Recent studies have focused on developing metamaterials for acoustic applications, inspired by electromagnetics concepts. The acoustic leaky-wave antenna is amongst the most investigated. Despite the unfavourable properties of conventional matter and struc ...

IEEE2017

Design of active Multiple-degrees-of-freedom electroacoustic resonators for use as broadband sound absorbers

Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Romain Boulandet, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet

We present a novel control method achieving stable multiple-degrees-of-freedom electroacoustic resonators. Such broadband absorbers, composed of a feedback-controlled electrodynamic loudspeaker, have many practical applications to real-world acoustic engin ...

2017

Acoustic Metasurface

Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

Metasurfaces have gained fame for their ability to control the transmitted and reflected phase front of waves. Here, we introduce a reflector-type acoustic metasurface designed in such a way to control the phase front of reflected sound waves. The proposed ...

2015

Acoustic Leaky-Wave Antenna

Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

In the last years, the number of studies carried out in the field of acoustic metamaterials has significantly increased. In year 2009, our group proposed a concept of acoustic composite right/left hand transmission line (CRLH-TL) metamaterial, consisting o ...

2014

Experimental assessment of low-frequency electroacoustic absorbers for room modal equalization in actual listening rooms

Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Véronique Adam

In listening rooms, low-frequency modal resonances lead to uneven distributions in space and frequency of the acoustic energy, as well as an alteration of the temporal behavior of the original music content. While usual absorption techniques have severe li ...

AES2016

Absorbeurs électroacoustiques pour l'égalisation modale des salles : Une nouvelle approche avec des haut-parleurs à double bobine

Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Sami Driss Karkar

Le défi récurrent dans les salles dédiées aux systèmes audio de haute-fidélité est l’égalisation du champ sonore aux basses fréquences. Selon la position du point d’écoute, la réponse de la salle en ce point peut entrainer des niveaux de pression acoustiqu ...

2014