Session W25: Nanowires IV: Nitrides and Others
2:30 PM–5:06 PM, Thursday, March 24, 2005
LACC Room: 501A
Sponsoring Units:
DCOMP DMP
Chair: Andrea Trave, LLNL
Abstract ID: BAPS.2005.MAR.W25.11
Abstract: W25.00011 : Light scattering study of acoustic phonons in 300nm wide rectangular wires
4:30 PM–4:42 PM
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Authors:
Anthony Link
Rudra Bandhu
R. Sooryakumar
(The Ohio State University)
Konrad Bussmann
(Naval Research Laboratory)
We have investigated the acoustic properties of 300 nm wide polymethyl methaacrylate (PMMA) rectangular wires supported on a 100 nm thick silicon nitride (Si$_{3}$N$_{4})$ free-standing membrane by Brillouin light scattering. The large elastic mismatch between PMMA and Si$_{3}$N$_{4 }$results in effective confinement of most low frequency acoustic modes ($<$ 20 GHz) to within the boundaries of the PMMA wire. For wave-vector transfer along the wire width, dispersionless excitations arising from mode quantization along the width and thickness of the PMMA wires are observed. In addition, dispersive signatures of the flexural mode of the Si$_{3}$N$_{4 }$membrane are evident. The mode amplitudes were analyzed using the \textit{xyz }algorithm. Our results reveal the quantized character of the modes and the presence of dilatational, torsional, shear and edge type modes. The results are compared to the behavior of acoustic modes propagating along the wire axis.
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