Sezawa and love modes in Co/Cu superlattices

• Authors: Tomasz Błachowicz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper detailed theoretical study and experimental results concerning acoustic surface and undersurface propagation modes in multilayered Co/Cu superlattices are provided. The theoretical approach was adopted from that of Adler and Farnel. Experimental results were obtained in Brillouin light-scattering measurements. The Sezawa and Love acoustic modes were observed as a result of boundary conditions at the interface between hexagonal and cubic structures.

Keywords

EN

Brillouin light scattering; acoustic phonons; superlattices; thin layers; Sezawa waves; 63.20.-e ; 63.22.+m ; 78.35.+c ; 81.07.-b

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2003
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 574-595

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2003

online

1 - 12 - 2003

Contributors

author

Tomasz Błachowicz

• Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology, ul. Krzywoustego 2, 44-100, Gliwice, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/BF02475904