Dr. Shen Research Group
Mechanical Engineering Department | Rowan University | Glassboro, NJ 08028
2024
2024/10: New publication in Advanced Intelligent Systems. The title is "Versatile Standing Wave Generation Between Arbitrarily Oriented Surfaces Using Acoustic Metasurface Deflectors and Retroreflectors". Congratulations to Chadi and all co-authors!
2024/10: Our systematic review on the inverse design of phononic (acoustic and elastic) metamaterials have been published in Materials Today. The title is "Inverse design of phononic meta-structured materials".
2024/08: New publication in Device on active sound absorbers. The work is in collaboration with Nanjing University, City University of New York, and University of Technology Sydney.
2024/05: New publication in Energies. The title is "Non-Contact Wind Turbine Blade Crack Detection Using Laser Doppler Vibrometers".
2024/03: New work on underwater votex generation is published in APL Materials. The title is "Underwater Double Vortex Generation Using 3D Printed Acoustic Lens and Field Multiplexing".
2024/03: Dr. Shen has received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, congratulations! The grant will support us in developing novel surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices with tunable functionality. Read the Rowan Today story.
2024/03: Our work on elastic wave rainbow trapping is published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Congratulations to all authors!
2024/02: Prof. Amir K. Miri and Prof. Sagnik Basuray from New Jersey Institute of Technology visited our lab.
2023
2023/11: Our contributed review paper "Acoustic resonances in non-Hermitian open systems" is out in Nature Reviews Physics. In this paper, we systematically reviewed the fundamental concepts and recent progress in non-Hermitian acoustic resonances.
2023/09: *New team member* Maral Ghanami joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome on board!
2023/09: The 45th PIERS (PhotonIcs and Electromagnetics Research Symposium) will be held on April 21-25, 2024 in Chengdu, China. We are organizing a session "Acoustic/Phononic Metamaterials, Metasurfaces, and Metadevices" with Dr. Lujun Huang from East China Normal University. More information can be found here. We welcome submissions related to acoustic/phononic metamaterials and metasurfaces, non-Hermitian acoustics, novel sound-matter interactions, practical applications of metadevices, and so on.
2023/05: New publication in Applied Physics Reviews entitled "Deep-learning-aided metasurface design for megapixel acoustic hologram". The work is also featured in AIP News.
2023/05: Gbenga's work on Bound States in the Continuum (BICs) is published in Physical Review B. Congratulations!
2023/05: Our contributed work "Bound States in the Continuum Protected by Reduced Symmetry of Three-Dimensional Open Acoustic Resonators" has been published in Physical Review Applied.
2023/04: Our lab receives an NSF grant to support research on acoustofluidics-integrated tumor models. The project will be in collaboration with Dr. Amir Miri from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).
2023/04: Congratulations to undergraduate students Joshua Lloyd, Cole Ludwikowski, and Cyrus Malik on publishing their first paper from the Engineering Clinics project they are working on. Check out the paper Mitigating Inaudible Ultrasound Attacks on Voice Assistants with Acoustic Metamaterials.
2023/03: Congratulations to Ali and Chadi on their new publication in Frontiers in Materials. The title is "Tunable, reconfigurable, and programmable acoustic metasurfaces: A review".
2023/02: Our lab received funding from New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF) to study focused ultrasound.
2022
2022/12: Olugbenga Gbidi successfully defended his master's thesis and obtained M.Sc. degree. Congratulatios!
2022/11: Our new work on underwater acoustic metamaterials is published in Advanced Engineering Materials and is featured as Editor's Choice. The title is "Anisotropic Metallic Microlattice Structures for Underwater Operations".
2022/11: Our contributed work "General Framework of Bound States in the Continuum in an Open Acoustic Resonator" has been published in Physical Review Applied.
2022/09: *New team member* Farhood Aghdasi joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome on board!
2022/06: New publication in Applied Physics Letters. The title is "Non-Hermitian planar elastic metasurface for unidirectional focusing of flexural waves".
2022/05: Katerina attended the 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Denver and presented her work on non-Hermitian elastic metasurfaces. Check out the abstract here.
2022/05: Together with Dr. Taehwa Lee from Toyota Motor North America and Prof. Qingbo He from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, we are organizing a special issue on acoustic/elastic wave sensing in Frontiers in Physics (IF=3.560). More information can be found here.
2022/05: Our contributed work "Topological Supercavity Resonances in the Finite System" has been published in Advanced Science.
2022/05: Ali Zabihi joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome on board!
2022/04: Our contributed work "Reflective Metasurfaces with Multiple Elastic Mode Conversions for Broadband Underwater Sound Absorption" has been published in Physical Review Applied.
2022/02: New publication in National Science Review. The title is "Achromatic metasurfaces by dispersion customization for ultra-broadband acoustic beam engineering".
2022/02: Our contributed work "Flexible planar metamaterials with tunable Poisson’s ratios" has been published in Materials & Design.
2022/01: Our lab receives an NSF grant to support research on acoustic metamaterials, congratulations! Read the Rowan Today story about this.
2021
2021/12: Dr. Shen receives the Frances R. Lax Fund for Faculty Development. Congratulations!
2021/12: The 24th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2022) will be held in Gyeongju, Korea from October 24 to 28, 2022. Dr. Shen and Prof. Yadong Xu from Soochow University are organizing an "Acoustic Metasurfaces" session. The abstract can be submitted here. The deadline for abstract submission is March 15th, 2022.
2021/11: Undergraduate students Ian Meighan and Edward De Asis attended the 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Seattle and successfully presented their work on multiplexed acoustic holography. The meeting abstract can be found here.
2021/10: Dr. Shen receives the 2021 PIERS Young Scientist Award. A list of recipients can be found here.
2021/09: Chadi Ellouzi joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome on board!
2021/08: Louis Gormley successfully defended his master's thesis and earned M.Sc. degree. Congratulatios!
2021/08: Katerina Stojanoska and Olugbenga Gbidi joined the lab as M.S. students. Welcome on board!
2021/08: New review article entitled "Density-Graded Cellular Solids: Mechanics, Fabrication, and Applications" has been published in Advanced Engineering Materials. The work is in collaboration with Prof. George Youssef and Prof. Behrad Koohbor.
2021/08: Our contributed work "Acoustic tweezer with complex boundary-free trapping and transport channel controlled by shadow waveguides" has been published in Science Advances.
2021/08: Our contributed work "Sound trapping in an open resonator" has been published in Nature Communications.
2021/08: Dr. Shen gave an invited talk at the 50th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (Inter Noise 2021) on acoustic gradient-index metasurfaces. The paper can be found here.
2021/06: Our contributed work "Breaking the acoustic diffraction limit with an arbitrary shape acoustic magnifying lens" has been published in Scientific Reports.
2021/06: Dr. Shen gave an invited talk at the 180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Acoustics in Focus) on the inverse design of acoustic metasurfaces. The abstract can be found here.
2021/04: Our contributed work "Customized broadband pentamode metamaterials by topology optimization" has been published in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
2021/04: Together with Prof. Ke Chen, we are organizing a special issue on electromagnetic and acoustic metasurfaces in Frontiers in Materials (IF=3.515). More information can be found here.
2021/03: New publication in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. The title is "Characterization of an underwater metamaterial made of aluminum honeycomb panels at low frequencies".
2021/02: New publication in Advanced Functional Materials. The title is "Electrically Tunable Surface Acoustic Wave Propagation at MHz Frequencies Based on Carbon Nanotube Thin‐Film Transistors".
2021/02: Our contributed work "Efficient scattering-free wavefront transformation with power flow conformal bianisotropic acoustic metasurfaces" has been published in Applied Physics Letters.
2021/01: Our contributed work "Non-closed acoustic cloaking devices enabled by sequential-step linear coordinate transformations" has been published in Scientific Reports.
2021/01: Mohammad Uzair has joined the lab as a M.S. student. Welcome on board!
2020
2020/10: Our paper "Sound vortex diffraction via topological charge in phase gradient metagratings" has been published in Science Advances.
2020/09: Louis Gormley has joined the lab as a M.S. student. Welcome on board!
2020/07: Our paper "Tunable unidirectional compact acoustic amplifier via space-time modulated membranes" has been published in Physical Review B.
2020/07: Our paper "Switchable directional sound emission with improved field confinement based on topological insulators" has been published in Applied Physics Letters.
2020/07: Together with Prof. Chengzhi Shi, Prof. Chu Ma, Prof. Yong Li and Dr. Zhenglu Li, we are organizing a special issue on novel acoustic and mechanical materials in Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering. More information can be found here.
2020/06: Our paper "Acoustofluidic Holography for Micro- to Nanoscale Particle Manipulation" has been published in ACS Nano.
Dr. Shen Research Group
Mechanical Engineering Department | Rowan University | Glassboro, NJ 08028