Phonons in slow motion: Dispersion relations in ultrathin Si membranes

John Cuffe; Emigdio Chávez; Andrey Shchepetov; Pierre Olivier Chapuis; El Houssaine El Boudouti; Francesc Alzina; Timothy Kehoe; Jordi Gomis-Bresco; Damian Dudek; Yan Pennec; Bahram Djafari-Rouhani; Mika Prunnila; Jouni Ahopelto; Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres

doi:10.1021/nl301204u

Phonons in slow motion: Dispersion relations in ultrathin Si membranes

John Cuffe
, Emigdio Chávez
, Andrey Shchepetov
, Pierre Olivier Chapuis
, El Houssaine El Boudouti
, Francesc Alzina
, Timothy Kehoe
, Jordi Gomis-Bresco
, Damian Dudek
, Yan Pennec
, Bahram Djafari-Rouhani
, Mika Prunnila
, Jouni Ahopelto
, Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres

School of Physics

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Abstract

We report the changes in dispersion relations of hypersonic acoustic phonons in free-standing silicon membranes as thin as ∼8 nm. We observe a reduction of the phase and group velocities of the fundamental flexural mode by more than 1 order of magnitude compared to bulk values. The modification of the dispersion relation in nanostructures has important consequences for noise control in nano- and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) as well as opto-mechanical devices.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3569-3573
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nano Letters
Volume	12
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nl301204u
Publication status	Published - 11 Jul 2012

Keywords

Confined phonons
dispersion relations
inelastic light scattering
Si membranes
slow phonons
ultrathin

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