Tailored elastic surface to body wave Umklapp conversion

oleh: Gregory J. Chaplain, Jacopo M. De Ponti, Andrea Colombi, Rafael Fuentes-Dominguez, Paul Dryburg, Don Pieris, Richard J. Smith, Adam Clare, Matt Clark, Richard V. Craster

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-06-01

Deskripsi

Umklapp scattering, an effect that has been conventionally studied in phonon systems in quantum transport, is studied here in an elastic system. The authors demonstrate mode conversion from surface Rayleigh waves into bulk waves that have uniquely tunable properties.