Ballistic phonon transmission in quasiperiodic acoustic nanocavities

作者:Mo, Yuan; Huang, Wei Qing*; Huang, Gui Fang; Chen, Yuan; Hu, Wangyu; Wang, Ling Ling; Pan, Anlian
来源:Journal of Applied Physics, 2011, 109(8): 084310.
DOI:10.1063/1.3576176

摘要

Ballistic phonon transport is investigated in acoustic nanocavities modulated in a quasiperiodic manner at low temperatures. Two different types of quasiperiodic acoustic nanocavities are considered: the lengths of nanocavities (QPL) and the lengths of the bridges (QPD) connecting two successive nanocavities are modulated according to the Fibonacci rule. We demonstrate that the transmission spectra and thermal conductance in both systems are similar, which is more prominent in QPD than in QPL. The transmission and thermal conductance of QPD are larger than those of QPL due to the fact that constant nanocavity length in QPD would strengthen ballistic phonon resonant transport, while varying nanocavity length in QPL lead to strong phonon scattering.