Femtosecond ultrasonic spectroscopy using a piezoelectric nanolayer: Hypersound attenuation in vitreous silica films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Wen, Yu Chieh ^a,b   Guol, Shi Hao ^a   Chen, Hung Pin ^a   Sheu, Jinn Kong ^c   Sun, Chi Kuang ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PULSE; FEMTOSECONDS; LIGHT SCATTERING METHOD; LOW-FREQUENCY DATA; NANO LAYERS; OPTICAL GENERATION; SOUND ATTENUATION; SPECTRAL GAP; THZ LASERS; ULTRA-BROADBAND; ULTRASONIC SPECTROSCOPY;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; LATTICE CONSTANTS; LIGHT SCATTERING; PIEZOELECTRICITY; QUARTZ; SCATTERING; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOLIDS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 80051599177     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3620879     Document Type: Article

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