Phononic crystals (PnCs) control the transport of sound and heat similar to the control of
electric currents by semiconductors and metals or light by photonic crystals. Basic and …

The introduction of engineered resonance phenomena on surfaces has opened a new
frontier in surface science and technology. Pillared phononic crystals, metamaterials, and …

Today, surface acoustic waves (SAWs) and bulk acoustic waves are already two of the very
few phononic technologies of industrial relevance and can been found in a myriad of …

Tinnitus is defined by an auditory perception in the absence of an external source of sound.
This condition provides the distinctive possibility of extracting neural coding of perceptual …

Converted into mechanical nanoresonators after optical pulsed excitation and electron
decay into coherent acoustic phonons, plasmonic nanoantennas produce a periodic …

Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials offer unique opportunities in engineering the
ultrafast spatiotemporal response of composite nanomechanical structures. In this work, we …

Phonons play a key role in the physical properties of materials, and have long been a topic
of study in physics. While the effects of phonons had historically been considered to be a …

Semiconductor microresonators embedding quantum wells can host tightly confined and
mutually interacting excitonic, optical, and mechanical modes at once. We theoretically …

Efficient generation of phonons is an important ingredient for a prospective electrically-
driven phonon laser. Hybrid quantum systems combining cavity quantum electrodynamics …

Microcavity exciton polaritons enable the resonant coupling of excitons and photons to
vibrations in the super-high-frequency (SHF, 3–30 GHz) domain. We introduce here a novel …