FEASIBILITY OF PHONON DIFFRACTION IN LIQUID HELIUM.

Abstract

This project was an experimental attempt to demonstrate the feasibility of diffraction by a grating of thermal phonon radiation in a helium bath at temperatures below 0.3K. If such feasibility could be established, the technique could be exploited to develop a 'phonon monochromator' for experiments in electron-phonon interactions, for example, and to develop a means of measuring phonon spectra of solids directly. For reasons of experimental difficulty, such feasibility was not demonstrated, and appears very doubtful. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 10, 1969
Accession Number
AD0697098

Entities

People

  • E. T. Kornhauser

Organizations

  • Brown University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Beta Particles
  • Corpuscular Radiation
  • Diffraction
  • Electrons
  • Elementary Fermions
  • Elementary Particles
  • Fermions
  • Ionizing Radiation
  • Monochromators
  • Nuclear Radiation
  • Radiation
  • Spectra
  • Subatomic Particles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.
  • Spectroscopy.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics