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2025

[66] Lujun Huang†, Bin Jia, Artem S. Pilipchuk, Sibo Huang, Chen Shen, Almas F. Sadreev†, Yong Li† and Andrey E. Miroshnichenko† “Merging bound states in the continuum in an open acoustic resonator”, Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 68, 214311 (2025). [LINK] [PDF]

2024

[65] Xiaohui Zhu† and Chen Shen “An acoustic metamaterial with space-time modulated density”, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156, 3984–3991 (2024). [LINK] [PDF]

[64] Chadi Ellouzi, Farhood Aghdasi, Ali Zabihi, Amir K. Miri and Chen Shen† “Versatile Standing Wave Generation Between Arbitrarily Oriented Surfaces Using Acoustic Metasurface Deflectors and Retroreflectors”, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2400474 (2024). [LINK] [PDF]

[63] Hao-Wen Dong†, Chen Shen†, Ze Liu, Sheng-Dong Zhao, Zhiwen Ren, Chen-Xu Liu, Xudong He, Steven A. Cummer, Yue-Sheng Wang†, Daining Fang and Li Cheng, “Inverse design of phononic meta-structured materials”, Materials Today, (2024). [LINK] [PDF]

[62] Kangkang Wang, Shi Li, Haishan Zou†, Sipei Zhao, Chen Shen and Jing Lu, “A broadband active sound absorber with adjustable absorption coefficient and bandwidth”, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156, 1048–1057 (2024). [LINK] [PDF]

[61] Kangkang Wang*, Sipei Zhao*, Chen Shen†, Li Shi, Haishan Zou, Jing Lu† and Andrea Alù†, “Breaking the causality limit for broadband acoustic absorption using a noncausal active absorber”, Device, 2, 100502 (2024). [LINK] [PDF]

[60] Ali Zabihi, Farhood Aghdasi, Chadi Ellouzi, Nand Kishore Singh, Ratneshwar Jha and Chen Shen†, “Non-Contact Wind Turbine Blade Crack Detection Using Laser Doppler Vibrometers”, Energies, 17, 2165 (2024). [LINK] [PDF]

[59] Chadi Ellouzi, Ali Zabihi, Farhood Aghdasi, Aidan Kayes, Milton Rivera, Jiaxin Zhong, Amir Miri and Chen Shen†, “Underwater double vortex generation using 3D printed acoustic lens and field multiplexing”, APL Materials, 12, 031130 (2024). [LINK] [PDF]

[58] Chadi Ellouzi*, Ali Zabihi*, Louis Gormley, Farhood Aghdasi, Katerina Stojanoska, Amir Miri, Ratneshwar Jha and Chen Shen†, “Experimental demonstration of rainbow trapping of elastic waves in two-dimensional axisymmetric phononic crystal plates”, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 155, 1759-1766 (2024). [LINK] [PDF]

[57] Lujun Huang*†, Sibo Huang*, Chen Shen*, Simon Yves*, Artem S. Pilipchuk*, Xiang Ni, Seunghwi Kim, Yan Kei Chiang, David A. Powell, Jie Zhu, Ya Cheng, Yong Li†, Almas F. Sadreev†, Andrea Alù† and Andrey E. Miroshnichenko†, “Acoustic resonances in non-Hermitian open systems”, Nature Reviews Physics, 6, 11-27 (2024). [LINK] [PDF]

2023

[56] Xuan-Bo Miao, Hao-Wen Dong†, Sheng-Dong Zhao, Shi-Wang Fan, Guoliang Huang, Chen Shen† and Yue-Sheng Wang†, “Deep-learning-aided metasurface design for megapixel acoustic hologram”, Applied Physics Reviews, 10, 021411 (2023). (Featured) [LINK] [PDF]

[55] Olugbenga Gbidi and Chen Shen†, “Selectively exciting quasibound states in the continuum in open microwave resonators using dielectric scatters”, Physical Review B, 107, 184309 (2023). [LINK] [PDF]

[54] Bin Jia*, Lujun Huang*†, Artem S. Pilipchuk*, Sibo Huang, Chen Shen, Almas F. Sadreev†, Yong Li† and Andrey E. Miroshnichenko†, “Bound States in the Continuum Protected by Reduced Symmetry of Three-Dimensional Open Acoustic Resonators”, Physical Review Applied, 19, 054001 (2023). [LINK] [PDF]

[53] Joshua S. Lloyd, Cole G. Ludwikowski, Cyrus Malik and Chen Shen†, “Mitigating Inaudible Ultrasound Attacks on Voice Assistants with Acoustic Metamaterials”, IEEE Access, 11, 36464-36470 (2023). [LINK] [PDF]

[52] Ali Zabihi, Chadi Ellouzi and Chen Shen†, “Tunable, reconfigurable, and programmable acoustic metasurfaces: A review”, Frontiers in Materials, 10, 1132585 (2023). [LINK] [PDF]

[51] Taehwa Lee†, Chen Shen and Qingbo He, “Editorial: Advances in acoustic/elastic wave sensing for information processing”, Frontiers in Physics, 10, 1127791 (2023). [LINK] [PDF]

[50] Chen Shen, Charles Rohde, Colby W. Cushing, Junfei Li, Zheng Jie Tan, Huifeng Du, Xiuyuan Peng, Preston S. Wilson, Michael R. Haberman, Nicholas X. Fang and Steven A. Cummer†, “Anisotropic Metallic Microlattice Structures for Underwater Operations”, Advanced Engineering Materials, 25, 2201294 (2023). (Editor's Choice) [LINK] [PDF]

2022

[49] Lujun Huang*†, Bin Jia*, Artem S. Pilipchuk*, Yankei Chiang, Sibo Huang, Junfei Li, Chen Shen, Evgeny N. Bulgakov, Fu Deng, David A. Powell, Steven A. Cummer, Yong Li†, Almas F. Sadreev† and Andrey E. Miroshnichenko†, “General Framework of Bound States in the Continuum in an Open Acoustic Resonator”, Physical Review Applied, 18, 054021 (2022). [LINK] [PDF]

[48] Katerina Stojanoska and Chen Shen†, “Non-Hermitian planar elastic metasurface for unidirectional focusing of flexural waves”, Applied Physics Letters, 120, 241701 (2022). [LINK] [PDF]

[47] Lujun Huang†, Bin Jia, Yan Kei Chiang, Sibo Huang, Chen Shen, Fu Deng, Tianzhi Yang, David A Powell, Yong Li† and Andrey E Miroshnichenko†, “Topological Supercavity Resonances in the Finite System”, Advanced Science, 2022, 2200257 (2022). [LINK] [PDF]

[46] Hao-Wen Dong, Sheng-Dong Zhao, Mourad Oudich†, Chen Shen, Chuanzeng Zhang, Li Cheng†, Yue-Sheng Wang† and Daining Fang†, “Reflective Metasurfaces with Multiple Elastic Mode Conversions for Broadband Underwater Sound Absorption”, Physical Review Applied, 17, 044013 (2022). [LINK] [PDF]

[45] Hao-Wen Dong*, Chen Shen*, Sheng-Dong Zhao*, Weibao Qiu, Hairong Zheng, Chuanzeng Zhang, Steven A. Cummer, YueSheng Wang†, Daining Fang† and Li Cheng†, “Achromatic metasurfaces by dispersion customization for ultra-broadband acoustic beam engineering”, National Science Review, 9, nwac030 (2022). [LINK] [PDF]

[44] Nicholas Pagliocca, Kazi Zahir Uddin, Ibnaj Anamika Anni, Chen Shen, George Youssef and Behrad Koohbor†, “Flexible planar metamaterials with tunable Poisson’s ratios”, Materials & Design, 215, 110446 (2022). [LINK] [PDF]

[43] Oyindamola Rahman, Kazi Zahir Uddin, Jeeva Muthulingam, George Youssef, Chen Shen† and Behrad Koohbor†, “Density-Graded Cellular Solids: Mechanics, Fabrication,and Applications”, Advanced Engineering Materials, 24, 2100646 (2022). [LINK] [PDF]

2021

[42] Junfei Li, Chen Shen, Tony Jun Huang and Steven A. Cummer†, “Acoustic tweezer with complex boundary-free trapping and transport channel controlled by shadow waveguides”, Science Advances, 7, eabi5502 (2021). [LINK] [PDF]

[41] Lujun Huang*, Yan Kei Chiang*, Sibo Huang*, Chen Shen*, Fu Deng, Yi Cheng, Bin Jia, Yong Li†, David A. Powell† and Andrey E. Miroshnichenko†, “Sound trapping in an open resonator”, Nature Communications, 12, 4819 (2021). [LINK] [PDF]

[40] Ali Abdolali†, Hooman Barati Sedeh, Mohammad Hosein Fakheri, Chen Shen and Fei Sun, “Breaking the acoustic diffraction limit with an arbitrary shape acoustic magnifying lens”, Scientific Reports, 11, 12958 (2021). [LINK] [PDF]

[39] Hao-Wen Dong, Sheng-Dong Zhao, Xuan-Bo Miao, Chen Shen, Xiangdong Zhang, Zhigao Zhao, Chuanzeng Zhang, Yue-Sheng Wang† and Li Cheng†, “Customized broadband pentamode metamaterials by topology optimization”, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 152, 104407 (2021). [LINK] [PDF]

[38] Colby W. Cushing†, Preston S. Wilson, Michael R. Haberman, Chen Shen, Junfei Li, Steven A. Cummer, Zheng Jie Tan, Chu Ma, Huifeng Du and Nicholas X. Fang, “Characterization of an underwater metamaterial made of aluminum honeycomb panels at low frequencies”, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149, 1829 (2021). [LINK] [PDF]

[37] Chen Shen*, Shiheng Lu*, Zhenhua Tian*, Shujie Yang, Jorge A. Cardenas, Junfei Li, Xiuyuan Peng, Tony Jun Huang†, Aaron D. Franklin† and Steven A. Cummer†, “Electrically Tunable Surface Acoustic Wave Propagation at MHz Frequencies Based on Carbon Nanotube Thin‐Film Transistors”, Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 31, 2010744 (2021). [LINK] [PDF]

[36] Xiuyuan Peng, Junfei Li, Chen Shen and Steven A. Cummer†, “Efficient scattering-free wavefront transformation with power flow conformal bianisotropic acoustic metasurfaces”, Applied Physics Letters, 118, 061902 (2021). [LINK] [PDF]

[35] Zahra Basiri, Mohammad Hosein Fakheri, Ali Abdolali† and Chen Shen, “Non-closed acoustic cloaking devices enabled by sequential-step linear coordinate transformations”, Scientific Reports, 11, 1845 (2021). [LINK] [PDF]

2020

[34] Yangyang Fu*†, Chen Shen*, Xiaohui Zhu*, Junfei Li, Youwen Liu, Steven A Cummer† and Yadong Xu†, “Sound vortex diffraction via topological charge in phase gradient metagratings”, Science Advances, 6, eaba9876 (2020). [LINK] [PDF]

[33] Xiaohui Zhu, Junfei Li, Chen Shen, Guangyu Zhang, Steven A Cummer† and Longqiu Li†, “Tunable unidirectional compact acoustic amplifier via space-time modulated membranes”, Physical Review B, 102, 024309 (2020). [LINK] [PDF]

[32] Ailing Song†, Junfei Li, Chen Shen, Tianning Chen† and Steven A Cummer†, “Switchable directional sound emission with improved field confinement based on topological insulators”, Applied Physics Letters, 117, 043503 (2020). [LINK] [PDF]

[31] Yuyang Gu, Chuyi Chen, Joseph Rufo, Chen Shen, Zeyu Wang, Po-Hsun Huang, Hai Fu, Peiran Zhang, Steven A Cummer and Tony Jun Huang†, “Acoustofluidic Holography for Micro- to Nanoscale Particle Manipulation”, ACS Nano, 14, 14635 (2020). [LINK] [PDF]

[30] Zhenhua Tian*, Chen Shen*, Junfei Li, Eric Reit, Hunter Bachman, Joshua Socolar, Steven A. Cummer† and Tony Jun Huang†, “Dispersion Tuning and Route Reconfiguration of Acoustic Waves in Valley Topological Phononic Crystals”, Nature Communications, 11, 762 (2020). [LINK] [PDF]

[29] Xiaohui Zhu*, Junfei Li*, Chen Shen, Xiuyuan Peng, Ailing Song, Longqiu Li† and Steven A. Cummer†, “Non-reciprocal Acoustic Transmission via Space-time Modulated Membranes”, Applied Physics Letters, 116, 034101 (2020). (Editor’s Pick) [LINK] [PDF]

2019

[28] Ailing Song†, Junfei Li, Xiuyuan Peng, Chen Shen, Xiaohui Zhu, Tianning Chen† and Steven A. Cummer†, “Asymmetric Absorption in Acoustic Metamirror Based on Surface Impedance Engineering”, Physical Review Applied, 12, 054048 (2019). [LINK] [PDF]

[27] Junfei Li*, Xiaohui Zhu*, Chen Shen, Xiuyuan Peng and Steven A. Cummer†, “Transfer Matrix Method for the Analysis of Space-time Modulated Media and Systems”, Physical Review B, 100, 144311 (2019). [LINK] [PDF]

[26] Chen Shen†, Xiaohui Zhu, Junfei Li and Steven A. Cummer†, “Nonreciprocal Acoustic Transmission in Space-Time Modulated Coupled Resonators”, Physical Review B, 100, 054302 (2019). [LINK] [PDF]

[25] Nikhil Gerard, Huachen Cui, Chen Shen, Yangbo Xie, Steven A. Cummer, Xiaoyu Zheng† and Yun Jing†, “Fabrication and Experimental Demonstration of a Hybrid Resonant Acoustic Gradient Index Metasurface at 40 kHz”, Applied Physics Letters, 114, 231902 (2019). [LINK] [PDF]

[24] Yangyang Fu*, Chen Shen*, Yanyan Cao*, Lei Gao, Huanyang Chen, C. T. Chan†, Steven A. Cummer† and Yadong Xu†, “Reversal of Transmission and Reflection Based on Acoustic Metagratings with Integer Parity Design”, Nature Communications, 10, 2326 (2019). [LINK] [PDF]

[23] Junfei Li, Chen Shen, Yangbo Xie and Steven A. Cummer†, “Non-reciprocal Sound Propagation in Space-time Modulated Media”, Physical Review B, 99, 144311 (2019). [LINK] [PDF]

[22] Chen Shen†, Junfei Li, Zhetao Jia, Yangbo Xie and Steven A. Cummer†, “Non-reciprocal Acoustic Transmission in Cascaded Resonators via Spatiotemporal Modulation”, Physical Review B, 99, 134306 (2019). [LINK] [PDF]

[21] Ailing Song†, Junfei Li, Chen Shen, Xiuyuan Peng, Xiaohui Zhu, Tianning Chen and Steven A. Cummer†, “Broadband High-index Prism for Asymmetric Acoustic Transmission”, Applied Physics Letters, 114, 121902 (2019). [LINK] [PDF]

[20] Zhenhua Tian*, Chen Shen*, Junfei Li, Eric Reit, Yuyang Gu, Hai Fu, Steven A. Cummer† and Tony Jun Huang†, “Programmable Acoustic Metasurfaces”, Advanced Functional Materials, 29, 1808489 (2019). [LINK] [PDF]

[19] Ana Díaz-Rubio†, Junfei Li, Chen Shen, Steven A. Cummer and Sergei A. Tretyakov, “Power Flow-Conformal Metamirrors for Engineering Wave Reflections”, Science Advances, 5, eaau7288 (2019). [LINK] [PDF]

[18] Junfei Li, Ana Díaz-Rubio, Chen Shen, Zhetao Jia, Sergei A. Tretyakov† and Steven A. Cummer†, “Highly Efficient Generation of Angular Momentum with Cylindrical Bianisotropic Metasurfaces”, Physical Review Applied, 11, 024016 (2019). (Editor’s Suggestion) [LINK] [PDF]

2018

[17] Chen Shen, Junfei Li, Xiuyuan Peng, and Steven A. Cummer†, “Synthetic Exceptional Points and Unidirectional Zero Reflection in Non-Hermitian Acoustic Systems”, Physical Review Materials, 2, 125203 (2018). [LINK] [PDF]

[16] Yangbo Xie*, Yangyang Fu*, Zhetao Jia, Junfei Li, Chen Shen, Yadong Xu, Huanyang Chen† and Steven A. Cummer†, “Acoustic Imaging with Metamaterial Luneburg Lenses”, Scientific Reports, 8, 16188 (2018). [LINK] [PDF]

[15] Yangyang Fu*, Junfei Li*, Yangbo Xie*, Chen Shen, Yadong Xu, Huanyang Chen† and Steven A. Cummer†, “Compact Acoustic Retroreflector Based on a Mirrored Luneburg Lens”, Physical Review Materials, 2, 105202 (2018). [LINK] [PDF]

[14] Chen Shen† and Steven A. Cummer†, “Harnessing Multiple Internal Reflections to Design Highly Absorptive Acoustic Metasurfaces”, Physical Review Applied, 9, 054009 (2018). [LINK] [PDF]

[13] Chen Shen, Ana Díaz-Rubio, Junfei Li and Steven A. Cummer†, “A Surface Impedance-Based Three-Channel Acoustic Metasurface Retroreflector”, Applied Physics Letters, 112, 183503 (2018). [LINK] [PDF]

[12] Junfei Li*, Chen Shen*, Ana Díaz-Rubio, Sergei A. Tretyakov† and Steven A. Cummer†, “Systematic Design and Experimental Demonstration of Bianisotropic Metasurfaces for Scattering-free Manipulation of Acoustic Wavefronts”, Nature Communications, 9, 1342 (2018). [LINK] [PDF]

[11] Chen Shen†, Yangbo Xie, Junfei Li, Steven A. Cummer and Yun Jing†, “Acoustic Metacages for Sound Shielding with Steady Air Flow”, Journal of Applied Physics, 123, 124501 (2018). [LINK] [PDF]

[10] Zhetao Jia, Junfei Li, Chen Shen, Yangbo Xie and Steven A. Cummer†, “Systematic Design of Broadband Path-Coiling Acoustic Metamaterials”, Journal of Applied Physics, 123, 025101 (2018). [LINK] [PDF]

2017

[9] Yong Li*, Chen Shen*, Yangbo Xie, Junfei Li, Wenqi Wang, Steven A. Cummer† and Yun Jing†, “Tunable Asymmetric Transmission via Lossy Acoustic Metasurfaces”, Physical Review Letters, 119, 035501 (2017). [LINK] [PDF]

2016

[8] Chen Shen and Yun Jing†, “Loss-induced Enhanced Transmission in Anisotropic Density-near-zero Acoustic Metamaterials”, Scientific Reports, 6, 37918 (2016). [LINK] [PDF]

[7] Yangbo Xie*, Chen Shen*, Wenqi Wang, Junfei Li, Dingjie Suo, Bogdan-Ioan Popa, Yun Jing† and Steven A. Cummer†, “Acoustic Holographic Rendering with Two-dimensional Metamaterial-based Passive Phased Array”, Scientific Reports, 6, 37918 (2016). [LINK] [PDF]

[6] Tai-Yun Huang, Chen Shen and Yun Jing†, “On the Evaluation of Effective Density for Plate- and Membrane-type Acoustic Metamaterials Without Mass Attached”, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140, 908 (2016). [LINK] [PDF]

[5] Tai-Yun Huang, Chen Shen and Yun Jing†, “Membrane- and Plate-type Acoustic Metamaterials”, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139, 3240 (2016). [LINK] [PDF]

[4] Chen Shen*, Yangbo Xie*, Junfei Li, Steven A. Cummer† and Yun Jing†, “Asymmetric Acoustic Transmission Through Near-zero-index and Gradient-index Metasurfaces”, Applied Physics Letters, 108, 223502 (2016). [LINK] [PDF]

2015

[3] Chen Shen, Yangbo Xie, Ni Sui, Wenqi Wang, Steven A. Cummer and Yun Jing†, “Broadband Acoustic Hyperbolic Metamaterial”, Physical Review Letters, 115, 254301 (2015). (Editor’s Suggestion) [LINK] [PDF]

2014

[2] Chen Shen, Jun Xu†, Nicholas X. Fang and Yun Jing†, “Anisotropic Complementary Acoustic Metamaterials for Canceling out Aberrating Layers”, Physical Review X, 4, 041033 (2014). [LINK] [PDF]

[1] Chen Shen and Yun Jing†, “Side Brach-based Acoustic Metamaterials with a Broad-band Negative Bulk Modulus”, Applied Physics A, 117, 1885 (2014). [LINK] [PDF]

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