新型功能材料——声子晶体

声子晶体是20世纪90年代初提出的一种新型声学功能材料，这种周期性弹性结构具有许多重要性质，如声波带隙特性，即处于禁带频率范围内的振动或声波将被禁止在晶体中传播。通过求解声波在晶体中的运动方程可以设计一定的声子禁带和允带，而声子禁带与声波异质结构中声子的安德森局域化问题密切相关。文章重点阐述了声子晶体的主要特征、理论研究方法、潜在应用及前景展望。     

复合兰姆波声子晶体中超宽部分禁带

兰姆波在声子晶体薄板中的传播特性因其在无损检测、 减振技术和传感器件等领域的潜在应用价值而受到越来越多的关注. 本文采用超原胞平面波展开法和有限元法系统地研究了复合对称结构声子晶体薄板中的兰姆波超宽部分禁带. 结果表明: 对于在薄板侧面对称地嵌入双层矩形空气柱构成的复杂系统, 低阶兰姆波部分带隙结构极为丰富. 将晶格常数(L)和板厚(H) 比值具有匹配关系的兰姆波声子晶体衔接构成复合结构, 低阶兰姆波部分禁带宽度因各组分结构的部分禁带交叠而得到显著拓宽, 可在低频超宽频带内实现对特定低阶兰姆波模式良好的模式选择功能. 该研究结果对兰姆波缺陷无损检测中模式优化选择及兰姆波单向导通器件设计等方面具有重要意义.     

平板二维声子晶体声波能带结构研究

利用超元胞法,研究由钢板上生长有限长度的钢柱体形成的散射体嵌入环氧树脂基体中所构成的平板二维声子晶体的声波能带结构,分析散射体的几何参数如柱体的高、半径和板的厚度对声波带隙的影响。研究结果表明:(1)这种新型的声子晶体具有很宽的带隙,且带隙出现在低频范围内;(2)散射体的几何参数对带隙的宽度有很大的影响,它们是控制带隙宽度的主要因素。     

声波在二维固/流声子晶体中的禁带特性研究

采用时域有限差分法(FDTD),分析了声波在二维四方点阵铝/空气组合声子晶体中的禁带特性,并利用实验测试验证了理论分析的正确性.在此基础上研究了两种不同声阻抗率比固(实心圆柱和空心圆管)/流系统声子晶体的禁带特性.对于实心圆柱体,分析了有限尺寸结构声子晶体在传播方向上的层数对声波传播特性的影响,得到了这两种系统在不同填充率下取得最大声波禁带宽度所需的最少层数.同时指出,在低声阻抗率比条件下,对于空心圆管填充物,通过选取适当的半径比,可以获得比实心柱体更宽的方向带隙.     

声子晶体的负折射

通过对声子晶体负折射的实验和理论进行梳理,提出可以通过从对称性角度理解声波在周期性结构中的散射,来理解声学负折射现象的物理机制.在此启发下,本文继而运用有限元模拟,通过改变背景介质的声学常数,成功展示了声波在声子晶体中的负折射现象.     

小波元方法在声子晶体周期结构中的应用

将双正交小波系统和谱元法的思想结合得到一般有界区域中的双正交小波元,将小波元的边界适应性推广到一阶微分的情形,通过匹配得到严格满足边界条件的小波基函数;基于小波元发展一种一维声子晶体能带计算方法.该方法利用声子晶体本身的结构特点,兼顾小波在数值分析中的优势和边界条件的满足,与周期小波法相比,具有更高的计算精度和计算效率.     

正方点阵上Fibonacci超元胞声子晶体的带结构

用平面波展开方法研究了水柱体作为填充物, 按照二维Fibonacci排列成超元胞填充在Hg基体中构成的声子晶体的声频带结构. 结果发现, 随着超元胞中准晶格常数的变化, 各个能带均出现三分裂. 对声场分布的研究发现了居间态的存在. 这些现象体现了准周期结构的特征. 关键词： Fibonacci排列 声子晶体 能带结构     

二维点缺陷声子晶体中缺陷填充率对能带的影响

用超元胞的平面波展开法,计算了存在点缺陷的二维水/水银声子晶体的能带结构和压强分布。通过改变5×5超元胞中心圆柱体的半径而引入缺陷,发现缺陷填充率（F_d）小于或大于正常柱体填充率（F₀）一定数值时（如当F₀=0.35,F_d<0.10或F_d>0.50）,都将出现缺陷态,且F_d对缺陷态的频率有重要影响。还比较了当F_d=0.03和F_d=0.90两种情况下缺陷态的压强分布,计算结果表明压强分布均具有局域性,F_d的大小对单模缺陷态的局域程度有影响,而对二重简并模无显著影响。     

三维声子晶体带结构研究

运用平面波展开法计算由长方体散射物以面心立方结构排列于基体中形成的三维声子晶体的带结构,研究不同组分材料、散射物的填充率和长方体散射物的高与长之比 R_(HL)对带隙的影响.结果表明,将质量密度和波速大的散射体放在质量密度和波速小的基体中所形成的三维(面心立方)固态声子晶体有利于带隙的产生；散射体的填充率为中间值时带隙最宽；散射体的对称性强烈影响带隙,当 R_(HL)大于等于1时,带隙宽度随 R_(HL)的增加而减小,相反,当 R_(HL)小于1时,带隙宽度随 R_(HL)的增加而增加.     

一维光子晶体禁带的展宽

作为一维光子晶体的应用基础，一维光子晶体的禁带是研究的重点。通过传输矩阵的方法分析了一维光子晶体禁带的特性，讨论了影响带宽的因素。说明了相对带宽对光子晶体设计的重要性。在这个基础上讨论了扩展一维光子晶体带宽的方法，提出了在角域范围内对光子晶体进行叠加的方法，为设计制造一维光子晶体提供了一种行之有效的方法。分别对2个、3个和4个晶体的叠加进行了分析，最后计算了所设计的合成晶体的反射率。其中4个晶体的叠加，相对带宽达到57．52％，极大地展宽了一维光子晶体的禁带，从而证明利用角域的叠加来展宽一维光子晶体的禁带是非常有效的。     

Hybrid phononic crystal plates for lowering and widening acoustic band gaps

We propose hybrid phononic-crystal plates which are composed of periodic stepped pillars and periodic holes to lower and widen acoustic band gaps. The acoustic waves scattered simultaneously by the pillars and holes in a relevant frequency range can generate low and wide acoustic forbidden bands. We introduce an alternative double-sided arrangement of the periodic stepped pillars for an enlarged pillars’ head diameter in the hybrid structure and optimize the hole diameter to further lower and widen the acoustic band gaps. The lowering and widening effects are simultaneously achieved by reducing the frequencies of locally resonant pillar modes and prohibiting suitable frequency bands of propagating plate modes.     

Complete band gaps of phononic crystal plates with square rods

Much of previous work has been devoted in studying complete band gaps for bulk phononic crystal (PC). In this paper, we theoretically investigate the existence and widths of these gaps for PC plates. We focus our attention on steel rods of square cross sectional area embedded in epoxy matrix. The equations for calculating the dispersion relation for square rods in a square or a triangular lattice have been derived. Our analysis is based on super cell plane wave expansion (SC-PWE) method. The influence of inclusions filling factor and plate thickness on the existence and width of the phononic band gaps has been discussed. Our calculations show that there is a certain filling factor (f = 0.55) below which arrangement of square rods in a triangular lattice is superior to the arrangement in a square lattice. A comparison between square and circular cross sectional rods reveals that the former has superior normalized gap width than the latter in case of a square lattice. This situation is switched in case of a triangular lattice. Moreover, a maximum normalized gap width of 0.7 can be achieved for PC plate of square rods embedded in a square lattice and having height 90% of the lattice constant.     

Designing broad phononic band gaps for in-plane modes

Phononic crystals are known as artificial materials that can manipulate the propagation of elastic waves, and one essential feature of phononic crystals is the existence of forbidden frequency range of traveling waves called band gaps. In this paper, we have proposed an easy way to design phononic crystals with large in-plane band gaps. We demonstrated that the gap between two arbitrarily appointed bands of in-plane mode can be formed by employing a certain number of solid or hollow circular rods embedded in a matrix material. Topology optimization has been applied to find the best material distributions within the primitive unit cell with maximal band gap width. Our results reveal that the centroids of optimized rods coincide with the point positions generated by Lloyd's algorithm, which deepens our understandings on the formation mechanism of phononic in-plane band gaps.     

Enhancement of phononic band gaps in ternary/binary structure

Based on the transfer matrix method (TMM) and Bloch theory, the interaction of elastic waves (normal incidence) with 1D phononic crystal had been studied. The transfer matrix method was obtained for both longitudinal and transverse waves by applying the continuity conditions between the consecutive unit cells. Dispersion relations are calculated and plotted for both binary and ternary structures. Also we have investigated the corresponding effects on the band gaps values for the two types of phononic crystals. Furthermore, it can be observed that the complete band gaps are located in the common frequency stop-band regions. Numerical simulations are performed to investigate the effect of different thickness ratios inside each unit cell on the band gap values, as well as unit cells thickness on the central band gap frequency. These phononic band gap materials can be used as a filter for elastic waves at different frequencies values.     

Phononic gaps induced by inertial amplification in BCC and FCC lattices

In this study, infinite and finite periodic body centered cubic (BCC) and face centered cubic (FCC) lattices with and without inertial amplification mechanisms are investigated. These three-dimensional lattices are modeled with mass and spring elements that are parametrically varied to observe their effect on phononic gap (stop band) limits. When inertial amplification mechanisms are used in both of the infinite periodic lattices, wide low frequency band gaps are generated. Moreover, wide and deep phononic gaps are obtained by using moderate amount of unit cells in the case of finite periodic lattices.     

Control of photonic band gaps in one-dimensional photonic crystals

The photonic band gaps in one-dimensional photonic crystals (PCs) are theoretically investigated. A new method to broaden the photonic band gaps is introduced. Based on the similar method, a kind of photonic crystals is constructed to generate photonic band gaps with proportioned central frequencies. This technology can be used for designing nonlinear PCs for harmonic generation.     

Engineering of band gap and cavity mode in phononic crystal strip waveguides

The optimal parameters for the largest band gap were investigated in three typical phononic crystal strip waveguides. Single cavity mode was created inside the band gap region by proper design of a defect. The band structures and the displacement distributions were discussed with the variation of the defect. Results show possibilities to guide extremely slow phonon cavity mode in strip waveguide with chosen displacement components, frequencies and symmetries.     

Effects of Poisson's ratio on the band gaps and defect states in two-dimensional vacuum/solid porous phononic crystals

The effects of the Poisson’s ratio of the solid host on the band gaps and point defect states of the mixed elastic wave modes in two-dimensional vacuum/solid porous PNCs are studied by numerical simulations. Four typical systems are considered. The four systems are, respectively, (I) the system with a square lattice and circular pores, (II) the system with a hexagonal lattice and circular pores, (III) the system with a square lattice and square pores and (IV) the system with a hexagonal lattice and regular-hexagonal pores. In the latter two systems, with respect to the outer boundaries of the Wigner-Seitz unit cell, the pores rotate 45° and 30°, respectively. Some observable effects of the Poisson’s ratio are found in the numerical results. Especially, the variations of the band gap boundaries with the Poisson’s ratio exhibit relatively consistent behaviors. With the increase of the Poisson’s ratio, the normalized frequency of a band gap boundary generally increases, except that in system (III) the normalized frequency of the upper boundary of the first band gap remains almost unchanged. Detailed interpretations on this phenomenon are given.     

Photonic band gap failure in photonic crystal devices

The photonic crystal is an artificial material with periodic dielectric constant and the key factor to preserve their band features is its periodicity. When the number of periods of photonic crystal is decreased the photonic band gap cannot prevent the light of the corresponding frequencies from propagating in photonic crystal, in another word, photonic band gap will be failure. The minimum periods of photonic crystal device which can keep photonic band gap effective in miniaturization process is analyzed, the transmittance spectrum is calculated by the Finite-difference time-domain algorithm (FDTD) [1], the minimum periods is got in the simulation and the reason which affects the minimum periods is analyzed in this paper.     

二维声子晶体带结构研究

声子晶体是近十年来提出的新课题，对声子晶体带结构的研究具有理论和应用价值。论文介绍了用平面波展开法计算二维正方点阵的固体／固体声子晶体带隙的方法，并应用于各向同性的铅柱体填充物以正方点阵排列于各向同性的环氧树脂基体中所形成的二维双组分复合体系。计算了柱体横截面是长方形时晶体的带隙，结果发现随着长方形截面的长宽比（l1／l2≥1时）的增加，带隙宽度逐渐减小，最后消失。