Phononic crystals and elastodynamics: Some relevant points

Tunable magnetoelastic phononic crystals

J.-F. Robillard, O. Bou Matar, J. O. Vasseur, P. A. Deymier, M. Stippinger, A.-C. Hladky-Hennion, Y. Pennec, and B. Djafari-Rouhani Joint European Laboratory LEMAC, Ecole Centrale de Lille, 59651 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France Institut d’Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, UMR CNRS 8520, Cité Scientifique, 59652 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France Department of Materials Science an...

Magnetic-Sphere-Based Phononic Crystals

Periodic arrays in one, two, and three dimensions, made of magnetic spheres embedded in a fluid matrix, are considered in this study and utilized as phononic structures. The propagation of acoustic waves through these structures is analyzed experimentally, in lowand high-frequency region, via laser vibrometry, as well as standard underwater acoustic measurements. A first comparison to theoretic...

Design and characterization of bubble phononic crystals

Tunable phononic crystals with anisotropic inclusions

We present a theoretical study on the tunability of phononic band gaps in two-dimensional phononic crystals consisting of various anisotropic cylinders in an isotropic host. A two-dimensional plane-wave expansion method was used to analyze the band diagrams of the phononic crystals; the anisotropic materials used in this work include cubic, hexagonal, trigonal, and tetragonal crystal systems. B...

Watching surface waves in phononic crystals.

In this paper, we review results obtained by ultrafast imaging of gigahertz surface acoustic waves in surface phononic crystals with one- and two-dimensional periodicities. By use of quasi-point-source optical excitation, we show how, from a series of images that form a movie of the travelling waves, the dispersion relation of the acoustic modes, their corresponding mode patterns and the positi...