High frequency acoustics in colloid-based meso- and nanostructures by spontaneous Brillouin light scatterin
[Book]
/ Tim Still
Berlin ;Heidelberg
: Springer-Verlag,
, c2010.
1 online resource (xx, 144 p.)
: , ill.
(Springer theses.)
"Doctoral thesis performed at Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and accepted by Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The present thesis deals with the exploration of phononic properties of meso- and nanostructured colloid-based composite materials at hypersonic (GHz) frequencies. The emerging field of phononics, the mechanical analogue of photonics, treats the propagation and manipulation of acoustic waves in structured materials. Due to their widely tunable properties (size, density, etc.) and their ability to self-assembly, polymer colloids are ideal systems to realize hypersonic phononics, which are investigated by Brillouin light scattering herein. Therefore, both the mechanical and physical properties of the individual colloidal particles, which manifest in their resonance vibrations (eigenmodes), as well as the acoustic propagation in colloidal structures have been investigated. --Book Jacket.
Note continued:5.1.3.Phononic Band Gaps --5.2.Effective Medium Velocity in Defect Doped Opals --5.3.Band Gaps in Polymer Opals and Disordered Systems --5.3.1.Influence of the Order in Colloidal Systems --5.3.2.Influence of the Composition in Disordered Colloidal Systems --5.4.Band Gaps in SiO2 Colloidal Systems --5.4.1.Phononic Behavior of Silica Suspensions --5.4.2.Silica[-]Poly(ethyl acrylate) Films (PhoXonics) --5.5.Materials --5.5.1.Melt Compressed Silica[-]Poly(ethyl acrylate) Films --References --6.1.Introduction --6.2.BLS Experiments on IMC --6.3.Materials and Methods --6.3.1.Stable Glass --6.3.2.BLS Measurements --References --7.1.Conclusions --7.2.Outlook --References --8.1.Transmission Case --8.2.Reflection Case.