Kimura Lab

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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2021

Tunable and Reconfigurable Nanoacoustics

In solid-state physics, all the properties determined by the atoms' position are susceptible to be modified by acoustic phonons. Acoustic phonons are usually seen as a primary source of unwanted effects in electronics, optoelectronics, and quantum technologies based on solid-state platforms. This project proposes a series of tunable nanodevices where acoustic-phonons constitute, instead, a central resource to unveil wavelength conversion phenomena, transfer information, and simulate systems difficult or impossible to study in optics and electronics. The current trend in nanophononics is to engineer acoustic nanodevices to shape the local acoustic density of states, tailor the light-matter…

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