A progress article published June 23 in the journal Nature Materials describes recent developments and predicts future advances in
phonon wave interference and thermal bandgap materials.
Not exact matches
This governs how vibrations such as
waves of heat and sound, known as
phonons, pass through materials.
The observation suggests that thermal
phonons must exist as
waves similar to electronic, photonic or acoustic
waves.
This illustration shows the emission of
phonons (sound
waves) from a nanometer scale waveguide, as optical
waves flow through it.
Although his device can not yet pick up individual
phonons, Delsing says his team is getting close: They can measure sound
waves just a few quintillionths of a meter high.
The new system, described in the March 5 edition of the journal Nature Communications, combines photons and
phonons — electromagnetic energy and sound energy — to conduct sophisticated signal processing tasks by harnessing the properties of lower - velocity acoustic
waves.
Called the quantum
phonon, this subatomic acoustical
wave can be detected only by intricate instruments that distinguish pure silence from its smallest possible deviation.
«As such, they are even slower than
phonons, the analogue to the water
wave in the solid state, and this makes them detectable in our experiment.»
Normally these
waves, or
phonons, are only able to carry heat within, and not between, materials.
Spin
waves and
phonons are strongly coupled in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic structures.
Although classical size effects on
phonon heat conduction are now well - established and understood, manipulating
phonon heat conduction via
waves is still a dream to be realized due to the broadband and short wavelength nature of
phonons.
Resume: Although classical size effects on
phonon heat conduction are now well - established and understood, manipulating
phonon heat conduction via
waves is still a dream to be realized due to the broadband and short wavelength nature of
phonons.
In this talk, I will show, however, the
wave effects on heat conduction can be observed and exploited to manipulate
phonon heat conduction.
Michael's research showed how electrons absorb and emit
phonons when bombarded by sound
waves.