Complete band gaps in one-dimensional left-handed periodic structures

Artificially fabricated structures with periodically modulated parameters such as photonic crystals offer novel ways of controlling the flow of light due to the existence of a range of forbidden frequencies associated with a photonic band gap. It is believed that modulation of the refractive index in all three spatial dimensions is required to open a complete band gap and prevent the propagation of electromagnetic waves in all directions. Here we reveal that, in sharp contrast to what was known before and contrary to the accepted physical intuition, a one-dimensional periodic structure containing the layers of transparent left-handed (or negative-index) metamaterial can trap light in three-dimensional space due to the existence of a complete band gap.     

多振子梁弯曲振动中的局域共振带隙

从梁的弯曲振动方程出发,利用传递矩阵法,给出了无限周期结构的一维多振子声子晶体梁的弯曲振动能带结构,并利用有限元方法计算了有限周期结构梁的弯曲振动频率响应.建立了多振子声子晶体梁的简化模型,推导出带隙起始截止频率公式.结果表明:一维多振子声子晶体梁具有比单振子声子晶体梁更宽更丰富的振动带隙,可应用于呈倍频关系的减振降噪中;振动在带隙频率范围内频率响应具有明显的衰减;所建立的简化模型与理论模型结果符合较好.研究工作为梁类结构的减振提供一种新的思路.     

Flexural vibration band gaps in thin plates with two-dimensional binary locally resonant structures

The complete flexural vibration band gaps are studied in the thin plates with two-dimensional binary locally resonant structures, i.e. the composite plate consisting of soft rubber cylindrical inclusions periodically placed in a host material. Numerical simulations show that the low-frequency gaps of flexural wave exist in the thin plates. The width of the first gap decreases monotonically as the matrix density increases. The frequency response of the finite periodic thin plates is simulated by the finite element method, which provides attenuations of over 20dB in the frequency range of the band gaps. The findings will be significant in the application of phononic crystals.     

Negative refractions by triangular lattice sonic crystals in partial band gaps

This study numerically demonstrates the effects of partial band gaps on the negative refraction properties of sonic crystal. The partial band gap appearing at the second band edge leads to the efficient transmissions of scattered wave envelopes in the transverse directions inside triangular lattice sonic crystal, and therefore enhances the refraction property of sonic crystal. Numerical simulation results indicate a diagonal guidance of coupled scattered wave envelopes inside crystal structure at the partial band gap frequencies and then output waves are restored in the vicinity of the output interface of sonic crystal by combining phase coherent scattered waves according to Huygens' principles. This mechanism leads to two operations for wavefront engineering: one is spatial wavefront shifting operation and the other is convex–concave wavefront inversion operation. The effects of this mechanism on the negative refraction and wave focalization are investigated by using the finite difference time domain(FDTD) simulations. This study contributes to a better understanding of negative refraction and wave focusing mechanisms at the band edge frequencies, and shows the applications of the slab corner beam splitting and SC-air multilayer acoustic system.     

椭球三维液态声子晶体完全声波禁带研究

弹性波在声子晶体中传播时，会产生一定的频率禁带，声和振动在禁带中被禁止传播。本文将椭球散射体引入三维声子晶体中，采用平面波展开法计算了该系统的声波禁带结构。对于不同椭球半径的系统，其声波禁带的位置与大小有很大不同。结果表明：当晶格常数和填充率确定时，禁带受到椭球半径的影响；当确定椭球体的某一个半径和填充率时，第一禁带的最大值出现在另2个半径相等的情况下。     

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.     

周期薄壁开口梁中的双耦合振动带隙

本文研究了由两种材料组合构成的周期性薄壁开口梁的弯曲和扭转双耦合振动。基于双耦合振动方程，给出了平面波展开法。当填充比不变时，晶格常数是影响带隙相对宽带的一个因素；当晶格常数和填充比不变时，杨氏模量是影响带隙宽带的主要因素，而不是密度。利用有限元法计算了有限周期结构的振动频率响应，在带隙频率范围内，振动衰减40dB左右。这些发现对于声子晶体的应用具有重要意义。     

Simultaneous complete elastic and electromagnetic band gaps in periodic structures

We study elastic and electromagnetic properties in periodic structures and present “deaf and blind” structures, i.e. materials having simultaneous complete phononic and photonic band gaps, that is, transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) electromagnetic waves, pure shear elastic waves, and mixed shear and dilatation elastic waves, cannot propagate within these structures. These composite materials can control the flow of light and sound at the same time. The existence of complete gaps for electromagnetic and elastic waves can lead to the simultaneous localization of light and sound, a novel phenomena that can have strong influence on photon–phonon interactions. We study the dependence of the simultaneous and complete gaps on material parameters to provide design guidelines on how to create these photonic–phononic crystals. PACS 78.66.Sq; 78.20.Bh; 63.20.-e     

局域共振复合单元声子晶体结构的低频带隙特性研究

本文提出了一种新型局域共振复合单元声子晶体结构, 并结合有限元方法对结构的带隙机理及低频共振带隙特性进行了分析和研究. 共振带隙产生的频率位置由所对应的局域共振模态的固有频率决定, 并且带隙宽度与局域共振模态的品质因子及其与基体之间的耦合作用强度有关. 采用局域共振复合单元结构可以实现声子晶体的多重共振, 在低频范围能打开多条共振带隙, 但受到共振单元排列方式的的影响. 由于纵向和横向局域共振模态的简并, 复合单元结构能在200 Hz以下的低频范围打开超过60%宽度的共振带隙, 最低带隙频率低至18 Hz. 这为声子晶体结构获得低频、超低频带隙提供了一种有效的方法. 关键词： 局域共振 低频带隙 复合单元 声子晶体     

旋转方形散射体对三角晶格磁振子晶体带结构的优化

用改进的平面波展开法数值计算了正方形散射体三角排列的二维磁振子晶体当散射体旋转时的带结构. 结果显示, 同样的填充率下, 旋转正方柱散射体可以在新的频率范围内打开更多的带隙, 或者使低频带隙加宽. 说明旋转散射体可以有效地优化带隙.     

Phononic band gaps and vibrations in one- and two-dimensional mass-spring structures

The vibrational response of finite periodic lattice structures subjected to periodic loading is investigated. Special attention is devoted to the response in frequency ranges with gaps in the band structure for the corresponding infinite periodic lattice. The effects of boundaries, viscous damping, and imperfections are studied by analyzing two examples; a 1-D filter and a 2-D wave guide. In 1-D the structural response in the band gap is shown to be insensitive to damping and small imperfections. In 2-D the similar effect of damping is noted for one type of periodic structure, whereas for another type the band gap effect is nearly eliminated by damping. In both 1-D and 2-D it is demonstrated how the free structural boundaries affect the response in the band gap due to local resonances. Finally, 2-D wave guides are considered by replacing the periodic structure with a homogeneous structure in a straight and a 90° bent path, and it is shown how the vibrational response is confined to the paths in the band gap frequency ranges.     

Complete photonic band gaps in one-dimensional ternary photonic crystals containing single negative materials

Complete photonic band gaps (PBGs) are found in one-dimensional ternary photonic crystals (1D TPCs) composed of an ordinary dielectric and single negative metamaterials. The proposed TPC gives omni directional PBG completely independent of polarizations dependent weekly on angle of incidence. Here the choice of different parameters of TPC is done in such a way so that it eliminates the Brewster's-angle transmission resonance, thus allowing a complete 3D PBG. It exhibits a photonic band or gap near frequencies where either the magnetic permeability or the electric permittivity of the metamaterial changes sign, whose width increases with the increasing angle of incidence. These result from the dispersive properties of the metamaterials and disappear for the particular case of propagation along the stratification direction. The results are discussed in terms of incident angle, layer thickness, dielectric constant of the dielectric material for TE and TM polarizations.     

Non-Bragg band gaps and light manipulation of composite structures with metamaterials

A review is presented of various composite structures containing double-negative metamaterials or two types of single-negative metamaterials. In particular, non-Bragg band gaps arising from phase-compensation or tunneling effects and their manipulation of light are stressed. The non-Bragg band gaps that are robust against incident directions, thickness randomness and are easily tuned by changing the structural parameters can not only expand our ability in controlling the flow of light, but also provide new mechanisms for the design of photonic devices.     

Existence of gaps in the spectrum of periodic dielectric structures on a lattice

We consider the finite-difference counterpart, i.e., the true lattice analog, of Maxwell's equations and equations that govern the propagation of acoustic waves in a medium with a periodic dielectric structure. In particular, the vector nature of electromagnetic waves is fully taken into account. The existence of true gaps for these lattice models is proved for a two-component medium for which the dielectric constant is everywhere real and positive, and the dielectric constant of the background is essentially larger than the one corresponding to the embedded component.     

Transverse wave band gaps and longitudinal wave band gaps in solid phononic crystals

Based on the properties of transverse (divergenceless) waves and longitudinal (irrotational) waves, we divided the transverse wave modes and longitudinal wave modes from the mixed eigen modes in solid phononic crystals. By investigating the transverse wave and longitudinal wave band structures at low frequency, we found that transverse bands and longitudinal bands exhibit different behaviors in solid systems including spherical scatterers. Phononic crystal with a large density ratio of solid spheres to the background can guarantee both the large longitudinal and large transverse band gap, but solid spheres with a small ratio of longitudinal wave velocity to transverse wave velocity can only help to enlarge the longitudinal band gap, and do not help to enlarge the transverse band gap.     

Effect of pinning fields on the spin wave band gaps in comblike structures

We consider, in the frame of the long-wavelength Heisenberg model, the effect of a pinning field on the spin wave band gaps and transmission spectra of one-dimensional comb-like structures. Using a Greens function method, we obtained closed-form expressions for the band structure and the transmission coefficients for an arbitrary value of the number N of sites (Nof resonators) in the comb-like structure. We report the opening-up of stop bands inside the pass-bands due to the effect of the pinning field at the ends of the resonators of the comb. These structures, composed of one-dimensional ferromagnetic materials, may exhibit large gaps where the propagation of spin waves is forbidden. The width and frequency position of these gaps depends on the strength of the pinning field.Received: 17 October 2003, Published online: 9 April 2004PACS: 75.30.Gw Magnetic anisotropy - 75.30.Ds Spin waves - 75.75. + a Magnetic properties of nanostructures     

Improved semiconductor lattice parameters and band gaps from a middle-range screened hybrid exchange functional

We show that the middle-range exchange-correlation hybrid of Henderson, Izmaylov, Scuseria and Savin (HISS) performs extremely well for elemental and binary semiconductors with narrow or visible spectrum band gaps, as well as some wider gap or more ionic systems used in devices. The lattice parameters are superior to those predicted by the screened hybrid functional of Heyd, Scuseria and Ernzerhof (HSE), and provide a significant improvement over the geometries predicted by typical semilocal functionals, yielding results competitive with PBEsol, which was specially tuned for solids. HISS also yields band gaps superior to those produced by functionals developed specifically for the solid state. Timings indicate that HISS is more computationally efficient than HSE, implying that the high quality lattice constants coupled with improved optical band gap predictions render HISS a useful adjunct to HSE in the modeling of geometry-sensitive semiconductors.     

Uncoupled photonic band gaps

We theoretically investigated the symmetry properties of the modes in two-dimensional square lattice photonic crystals in order to study phenomena that would enable new frontiers in the applications of photonic crystals. Using group theory, symmetry analysis of the photonic crystals bands has been done. Particular attention was given to the search for the uncoupled B modes that cannot be excited by the external plane wave because they are symmetry forbidden. The existence of the uncoupled modes enabled to define new physics phenomena: uncoupled photonic band gaps. For the frequency ranges inside the uncoupled photonic band gaps, zero transmission is obtained. Therefore, there are two different types of photonic gaps in the photonic crystals: photonic band gaps and uncoupled photonic band gaps. The appearance of uncoupled photonic band gaps in photonic crystals could at least improve the application of the existing photonic materials and structures or even enable the usage of new ones for devices like waveguides, filters, and lasers.