In new research, physicists have theorized a bold way to change it up by entangling two particles of very different kinds – a ...

This June, members of the lab attended Phononics 2019: the 5th International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Metamaterials, Phonon Transport, and Topological Phononics. Several students presented ...

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have uncovered the atomic-scale mechanics that enhance superconductivity ...

Phonon scattering in polar semiconductors may occur from either acoustic or optical phonons. Polar acoustic phonon, or piezoelectric, scattering can be important at very low temperatures in very pure ...

When a carrier collides with a phonon, both energy and momentum are conserved. Energy and momentum conservation impose constraints on the maximum wave vector change and, therefore, on which phonons ...

This innovative detector converts incident infrared light into ultra-confined "nanolight" in the form of phonon polaritons within the detector´s active area. This mechanism serves two crucial ...

Our measurements reveal anomalous temperature dependence of the Raman spectral features of MoI3, which suggest magnetic phase transitions. The theoretical calculations of the phonon and magnon ...