Experimental Development of a Displacement Wave (Phonon) Spectrometer.

Abstract

During the period of three years of this grant, two major experiments have been carried out and completed. These are: (1) An experiment evaluating a vibronic sideband spectrometer for a study of nearly monochromatic phonons obtained through phonon-fluorescence from superconducting lead films. The results have been presented and published. (2) An experiment evaluating the use of superconducting tunneling junctions as generators and detectors of nearly monochromatic phonons. This experiment has shown the entirely unexpected result that high frequency phonons, at least as high as 1.4 THz, escape from superconducting Sn and that Pb junctions can be used as a partial spectrometer to obtain some information on the spectral distribution of the escaping phonons.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 15, 1975
Accession Number
ADA020132

Entities

People

  • W. E. Bron

Organizations

  • Indiana University Bloomington

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Detectors
  • Displacement
  • Fluorescence
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Generators
  • Quantum Tunneling
  • Radio Frequency
  • Sidebands
  • Spectrometers
  • Tunneling
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.
  • Spectroscopy.