Khelif A., Adibi A. (eds.) Phononic Crystals: Fundamentals and Applications

Springer, 2016. — 245 p.Phononic crystals (PnCs) are novel synthetic periodic materials for controlling and manipulating the propagation of elastic (or acoustic) waves. The periodic nature of PnCs gives them novel properties that cannot be found in bulk materials. For example, PnCs can exhibit acoustic (or phononic) bandgaps, which are frequency ranges in which the propagation of acoustic waves inside the PnC is prohibited. The addition of defects to a perfect PnC with a phononic bandgap allows for the design of devices like waveguides and cavities to control the propagation of acoustic waves inside the bandgap and to enable novel functionalities in a very compact structure.
This book provides an in-depth analysis as well as an overview of phononic crystals. It discusses numerous techniques for the analysis of phononic crystals and covers, among other material, sonic and ultrasonic structures, hypersonic planar structures and their characterization, and novel applications of phononic crystals. This is an ideal book for those working with micro and nanotechnology, MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), and acoustic devices.Introduction to Acoustics of Phononic Crystals. Homogenization at Low Frequencies (by José Sánchez-Dehesa and Arkadii Krokhin).
Fundamental Properties of Phononic Crystal (by Yan Pennec and Bahram Djafari-Rouhani).
The Three-Dimensional Phononic Crystals (by Badreddine Assouar, Rebecca Sainidou, and Ioannis Psarobas).
Computational Problems and Numerical Techniques for the Analysis of Phononic Crystals (by Vincent Laude and Abdelkrim Khelif).
Phononic Crystal Membranes (Slabs or Plates) (by Saeed Mohammadi and Ali Adibi).
Surface Acoustic Waves in Phononic Crystals (by Tsung-Tsong Wu, Jin-Chen Hsu, Jia-Hong Sun, and Sarah Benchabane).
Optical Characterization of Phononic Crystals in the Time Domain (by Osamu Matsuda and Oliver B. Wright).
Optical Characterization of Phononic Crystals in the Frequency Domain (by Kimmo Kokkonen).
Future Prospects of Phononic Crystals and Phononic Metamaterials (by Saeed Mohammadi, Abdelkrim Khelif, and Ali Adibi).