THEORY, FABRICATION, AND EXPERIMENTATION OF PHONONIC CRYSTALS IN MEMS AT MICRO/NANO SCALE: ENGINEERING OF THERMAL AND RF PHONONS TO APPLICATIONS IN THERMOELECTRICS AND MICRORESONATORS

<p>Phononic Crystals (PnCs) are novel materials comprised of a periodic structure of inclusions in a matrix. This periodic arrangement creates phononic bandgaps, and modifies phononic bandstructures of a material. Such a property offers promising applications at the micro and nano scales to engineer acoustic filters, high Q-factor resonators, and thermoelectric properties of materials. Studying PnCs at the micro/nano scale requires specific characterization techniques, which rely on Micro Electro Mechanical Structures (MEMS). This work focuses on the study, and characterization of PnCs using MEMS in view of their prospective applications in thermoelectric materials, microresonators and acoustic filters, and also the prospective applications of PnCs in MEMS.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Mechanical Engineering

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Mechanical Engineering

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Alaie, Seyedhamidreza

Contributors dc:contributor

• Leseman, Zayd
• Shen, Yu-Lin
• Sheik-Bahae, Mansoor
• Zarkesh-Ha, Payman

• Phononic Crystals
• MEMS
• Thermal Conductivity
• Phonons
• Microresonators
• Microscale
• Nanosclae
• Characterization
• Mechanical Engineering

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/me_etds/24

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalrepository.unm.edu:me_etds-1023