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Published on: January 26, 2016
Anisotropic hypersonic phonon propagation in films of aligned ellipsoids
Peter J Beltramo1, Dirk Schneider2, George Fytas3
1Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Center for Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.
Abstract:
A material with anisotropic elastic mechanical properties and a direction-dependent hypersonic band gap is fabricated using ac electric field-directed convective self-assembly of colloidal ellipsoids. The frequency of the gap, which is detected in the direction perpendicular to particle alignment and entirely absent parallel to alignment, and the effective sound velocities can be tuned by the particle aspect ratio. We hypothesize that the band gap originates from the primary eigenmode peak, the m-splitted (s,1,2) mode, of the particle resonating with the effective medium. These results reveal the potential for powerful control of the hypersonic phononic band diagram by combining anisotropic particles and self-assembly.
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