1. Yu, N. et al. Light propagation with phase discontinuities: generalized laws of reflection and refraction. Science 334, 333–337 (2011). This paper derives the generalized Snell’s law, which provides the theoretical framework for many types of acoustic metasurfaces.
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5. Xie, Y. et al. Wavefront modulation and subwavelength diffractive acoustics with an acoustic metasurface. Nat. Commun. 5, 5553 (2014). By using the coiling-up space structure, this study provides a set of experimental results for transmissive acoustic metasurfaces.