Phonon engineering with acoustic nanocavities: Theoretical considerations on phonon molecules, band structures, and acoustic Bloch oscillations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Lanzillotti Kimura, N D ^a   Fainstein, A ^a   Balseiro, C A ^a   Jusserand, B ^b  

^a INSTITUTO BALSEIRO   (Argentina)

^b CNRS   (France)

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EID: 33846397508     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.024301     Document Type: Article

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