Inverse design of a metasurface-enhanced stacked plate buffer for ultrasonic phased array imaging
Conventional stacked-plate buffers (SPBs) generate trailing-echoes that can obscure defect responses in ultrasonic phased-array imaging. This study proposes a metasurface-enhanced stacked-plate buffer (MESPB) and a hardware–software framework for reducing these effects without increasing the buffer dimensions. A semi...