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Tunneling times of acoustic phonon packets through a distributed Bragg reflector
Zorayda Lazcano1, Pedro Luis Valdés Negrín2, Diosdado Villegas3
1Instituto de Física, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apartado Postal J-48, CP 7250 Puebla, México.
Abstract:
The longwave phenomenological model is used to make simple and precise calculations of various physical quantities such as the vibrational energy density, the vibrational energy, the relative mechanical displacement, and the one-dimensional stress tensor of a porous silicon distributed Bragg reflector. From general principles such as invariance under time reversal, invariance under space reflection, and conservation of energy density flux, the equivalence of the tunneling times for both transmission and reflection is demonstrated. Here, we study the tunneling times of acoustic phonon packets through a distributed Bragg reflector in porous silicon multilayer structures, and we report the possibility that a phenomenon called Hartman effect appears in these structures.
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