Guidance of surface elastic waves along a linear chain of pillars

The propagation of surface elastic waves, or surface phonons, is considered along a linear and periodic chain of cylindrical pillars sitting on a semi-infinite solid substrate. A variety of guided modes, some of them exhibiting a very low group velocity, are shown to exist at frequencies close to th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mohammed Al Lethawe, Mahmoud Addouche, Sarah Benchabane, Vincent Laude, Abdelkrim Khelif
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2016-12-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4972552