Electrical modulation and switching of acoustic phonons (Conference Presentation)

Young-Dahl Jho; Hoonil Jeong; Christopher J. Stanton; Dong-Sean Lee; Minyeo Kim

doi:10.1117/12.2251320

28 April 2017 Electrical modulation and switching of acoustic phonons (Conference Presentation)

Young-Dahl Jho, Hoonil Jeong, Christopher J. Stanton, Dong-Sean Lee, Minyeo Kim

Proceedings Volume 10112, Photonic and Phononic Properties of Engineered Nanostructures VII; 101121V (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2251320
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We report on electrically modulating and switching the wavy properties of acoustic phonons in nanoscale piezoelectric heterostructures which are strained both from the pseudomorphic growth at the interfaces as well as through external electric fields. In symmetry planes of such structures, the generation and detection of the transverse acoustic modes are forbidden, and only longitudinal acoustic phonons are generated by ultrafast displacive screening of strains. We show that the combined application of lateral and vertical electric fields can not only turn on and off various modes but they can also modulate the amplitudes and frequencies of the modes [1-3]. The role of the electrical controllability of phonons was further demonstrated as changes to the propagation velocities; the electrically polarized TA waves; and the geometrically varying optical sensitivities of phonons. The capability to manipulate the phononic functionalities with electric fields is analogous to that for manipulating photons and electrons in major technological devices and can be a practical route for integrated phononic circuitry. [1] C. S. Kim et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 101105 (2012). [2] H. Jeong et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 043603 (2015). [3] H. Jeong et al., Phys. Rev. B (to appear).

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Young-Dahl Jho, Hoonil Jeong, Christopher J. Stanton, Dong-Sean Lee, and Minyeo Kim "Electrical modulation and switching of acoustic phonons (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10112, Photonic and Phononic Properties of Engineered Nanostructures VII, 101121V (28 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2251320

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