Flexible acoustic devices withstand extreme bending without losing functionality.
Flexible acoustic wave devices were studied to understand how they behave when bent. A new model was created to analyze how the frequency of sound waves changes when the devices are bent. The model was tested on ZnO/Al devices, and the results matched well with the actual measurements. The devices showed good repeatability in both elastic and elasto-plastic bending, with small errors in predicting how much they would bend.