Confinement of acoustical vibrations in a semiconductor planar phonon cavity

Details Confinement of acoustical vibrations in a semiconductor planar phonon cavity Confinement of acoustical vibrations in a semiconductor planar phonon cavity

2002-06-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0206488v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures Submitted to PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.227402

Extending the idea of optical microcavities to sound waves, we propose a {\it phonon cavity} consisting of two semiconductor superlattices enclosing a spacer with thickness determined by the acoustic wavelength at the center of the first zone-center folded minigap. We show that acoustical phonons can be confined in these layered structures, and propose Raman experiments which are able to probe these novel excitations. The Raman experiments take profit of an optical microcavity scattering geometry that, through the forward-scattering contribution, gives access to the zone-center excitations. We report experimental results of Raman scattering in a structure based in GaAs/AlAs materials that demonstrate unambiguously the observation of phonon cavity confined acoustical vibrations. The experimental results compare precisely with photoelastic model calculations of the Raman spectra of the proposed phonon-cavity embedded optical microcavity.

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