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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 83, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.104201
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-09-BLAN-0167-01]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-09-BLAN-0167] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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We report on the experimental study of the propagation of surface guided waves in a periodic arrangement of pillars on a semi-infinite medium. Samples composed of nickel pillars grown on a lithium niobate substrate were prepared and wide bandwidth transducers were used for the electrical generation of surface elastic waves. We identify a complete band gap for surface guided waves appearing at frequencies markedly lower than the Bragg band gap. Using optical measurements of the surface vibrations and by comparison with a finite element model, we argue that the low frequency band gap arises because of local resonances in the pillars. When resonance is reached, the acoustic energy is confined inside the pillars and transmission through the array is strongly reduced. At higher frequencies and inside the Bragg band gap, the incident surface elastic waves are almost completely reflected and the observed exponential decay of the transmission is similar to the case of phononic crystals made of holes in a substrate.
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