Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rcrh6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-23T01:23:07.012Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Effect of Grain Boundaries on the Vibrational Properties of Phononic Crystals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2017

Ralf Meyer
Ralf Meyer*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and Department of Physics, Laurentian University, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada
*
*(Email: rmeyer@cs.laurentian.ca)
Get access

Abstract

The influence of grain boundaries on the vibrational properties of nanoscale phononic crystals is studied with the help of molecular dynamics simulations. The low-frequency vibrational density of states of phononic crystals made from single crystal and polycrystalline silicon are derived from the simulations. The results show that the presence of grain boundaries leads to an increase of the density of states and a change of its peak structure at low frequencies. Calculations of the band structure of the model systems along one direction reveal that the grain boundaries affect the bands differently and in a non-uniform manner.

Keywords

nanostructuresimulationSi
Type
Articles
Information
MRS Advances , Volume 2 , Issue 28: Nanomaterials , 2017 , pp. 1463 - 1468
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2017 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Khelif, A. and Adibi, A. (eds.), Phononic Crystals (Springer, Heidelberg, New York, 2016).Google Scholar
Laude, V., Phononic Crystals (De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston, 2015).Google Scholar
Deymier, P.A. (ed.), Acoustic Metamaterials and Phononic Crystals (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gillet, J.N., Chalopin, Y., and Volz, S., J. Heat Transfer 131, 043206 (2009).Google Scholar
Yu, J.K., Mitrovic, S., Tham, D., Varghese, J., and Heath, J.R., Nature Nanotech. 5, 718 (2010).Google Scholar
Hopkins, P., Reinke, C.M., Su, M.F., Olsson, R.H. III, Shaner, E.A., Leseman, Z.C., Serrano, J.R., Phinney, L.M., and El-Kady, I., Nano Lett. 11, 107 (2011).Google Scholar
Meyer, R., Phys. Stat. Sol. A, doi: 10.1002/pssa.201600387 (2016).Google Scholar
Baskes, M. I., Phys. Rev. B 46, 2727 (1992).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Swope, W.C., Andersen, H.C., Berens, P.H., and Wilson, K. R., J. Chem Phys. 76, 637 (1982).Google Scholar
Wang, C.Z., Fasolino, A., and Tosatti, E., Phys. Rev. B 37, 2116 (1988).Google Scholar