Protected Long-Distance Guiding of Hypersound Underneath a Nanocorrugated Surface

Yaremkevich, Dmytro D.; Scherbakov, Alexey V.; Kukhtaruk, Serhii M.; Linnik, Tetiana L.; Khokhlov, Nikolay E.; Godejohann, Felix; Dyatlova, Olga A.; Nadzeyka, Achim; Pattnaik, Debi P.; Wang, Mu; Roy, Syamashree; Campion, Richard P.; Rushforth, Andrew W.; Gusev, Vitalyi E.; Akimov, Andrey V.; Bayer, Manfred

Abstract

In nanoscale communications, high-frequency surface acoustic waves are becoming effective data carriers and encoders. On-chip communications require acoustic wave propagation along nanocorrugated surfaces which strongly scatter traditional Rayleigh waves. Here, we propose the delivery of information using subsurface acoustic waves with hypersound frequencies of ∼20 GHz, which is a nanoscale analogue of subsurface sound waves in the ocean. A bunch of subsurface hypersound modes are generated by pulsed optical excitation in a multilayer semiconductor structure with a metallic nanograting on top. The guided hypersound modes propagate coherently beneath the nanograting, retaining the surface imprinted information, at a distance of more than 50 μm which essentially exceeds the propagation length of Rayleigh waves. The concept is suitable for interfacing single photon emitters, such as buried quantum dots, carrying coherent spin excitations in magnonic devices and encoding the signals for optical communications at the nanoscale.

Citation

Yaremkevich, D. D., Scherbakov, A. V., Kukhtaruk, S. M., Linnik, T. L., Khokhlov, N. E., Godejohann, F., Dyatlova, O. A., Nadzeyka, A., Pattnaik, D. P., Wang, M., Roy, S., Campion, R. P., Rushforth, A. W., Gusev, V. E., Akimov, A. V., & Bayer, M. (2021). Protected Long-Distance Guiding of Hypersound Underneath a Nanocorrugated Surface. ACS Nano, 15(3), 4802–4810. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c09475

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 29, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Feb 16, 2021
• Publication Date: Mar 23, 2021
• Deposit Date: Feb 19, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 4, 2021
• Journal: ACS Nano
• Print ISSN: 1936-0851
• Electronic ISSN: 1936-086X
• Publisher: American Chemical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 4802–4810
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c09475
• Keywords: General Engineering; General Physics and Astronomy; General Materials Science
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5334356
• Publisher URL: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c09475#