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An exceptional surface wave can propagate in an isolated direction, when guided by the planar interface of two homogeneous dielectric partnering mediums of which at least one is anisotropic, provided that the constitutive parameters of the…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-04 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Tom G. Mackay

We propose a general and complete classification of all possible new and old kinds of surface plasmon waves that can propagate at boundaries of arbitrary linear, local bi-anisotropic media, including the quartic metamaterials. For arbitrary…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-05 Maxim Durach

We study the propagation of plane waves in an unbounded body of a saturated ferromagnetoelastic solid. The equations by Tiersten for small fields superposed on finite initial fields in a saturated ferromagnetoelastic material are employed,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Qingguo Xia , Jianke Du , Jiashi Yang

We reveal the existence of a new type of surface electromagnetic waves supported by hyperbolic metasurfaces, described by a conductivity tensor with an indefinite signature. We demonstrate that the spectrum of the hyperbolic metasurface…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-24 O. Yermakov , A. Ovcharenko , A. Bogdanov , I. Iorsh , Yu. S. Kivshar

The physical processes taking place at the surface and near the surface of solids is so rich and versatile that sometimes they seem to be the inexhaustible subject of fundamental research. In particular, since the discovery by Lord Rayleigh…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-19 Eugene A. Eliseev , Anna N. Morozovska , Maya D. Glinchuk , Sergei V. Kalinin

This paper discusses the physics of magnetoelasticity and magnetoelastic waves as well as their mathematical description. Magnetoelastic waves occur as a result of strong coupling between spin waves and elastic waves in magnetostrictive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 Frederic Vanderveken , Florin Ciubotaru , Christoph Adelmann

Surface magnetization waves are studied on a semi-infinite magnetic medium in the perpendicular geometry. Both superconducting and insulating ferromagnets are considered. Exchange and dipole energies are taken into account, as well as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Braude , E. B. Sonin

Layered media can be used as acoustic filters, allowing only waves of certain frequencies to propagate. In soft magneto-active laminates, the shear wave band gaps (i.e., the frequency intervals for which shear waves cannot propagate) can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Harold Berjamin , Stephan Rudykh

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs), coherent vibrational modes localized at solid surfaces, have been employed to manipulate and detect electronic and magnetic states in condensed-matter systems via strain. SAWs are commonly excited in a…

We consider in a simple and general way elastic waves in isotropic and anisotropic media, their polarization, speeds, reflection from interfaces with mode conversion, and surface waves. Reflection of quasi transverse waves in anisotropic…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 V. K. Ignatovich , L. T. N. Phan

For general anisotropic linear elastic solids with smooth boundaries, Rayleigh-type surface waves are studied. Using spectral factorizations of matrix polynomials, a self-contained exposition of the case of a homogeneous half-space is given…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-12 Sönke Hansen

Coherent gigahertz-frequency surface acoustic waves (SAWs) traveling on the surface of a piezoelectric crystal can, via the magnetoelastic interaction, resonantly excite traveling spin waves in an adjacent thin-film ferromagnet. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-10 Praveen G. Gowtham , Takahiro Moriyama , Daniel C. Ralph , Robert A. Buhrman

We investigate the dispersion properties of the acoustic surface waves on surface of elastic metamaterials. With an analytical approach, we show that unconventional acoustic surface waves, with dispersion behaviors very similar to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-06 Ke Deng , Zhaojian He , Yiqun Ding , Heping Zhao , Zhengyou Liu

Dispersion characteristics of magnetostatic waves in tangentially magnetized to saturation ferrite film with a "magnetic wall" condition (tangential component of microwave magnetic field is equal to zero) on the one of the film surface were…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. H. Lock , A. V. Vashkovsky

The dependence of the velocity of surface acoustic wave (SAW) as a function of an external applied magnetic field is investigated in a Fe thin film epitaxially grown on a piezoelectric GaAs substrate. The SAW velocity is observed to…

Elastic waves propagating in piezoelectric materials are accompanied by a time-varying electric potential, which is of critical importance for acousto-electronic applications. The spatial mapping of such a potential at microwave frequencies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Lu Zheng , Di Wu , Xiaoyu Wu , Keji Lai

A new analytical approach to description of electromagnetic waves in nonmagnetic anisotropic media is presented. Amplitudes of their reflection and refraction at interfaces and also reflection and transmission of plane parallel plates are…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Filipp V. Ignatovich , Vladimir K. Ignatovich

The ability to control the directionality of surface waves by manipulating its polarization has been of great significance for applications in spintronics and polarization-based optics. Surface waves with evanescent tails are found to…

Numerical simulations shed light on control of shear elastic wave propagation in plates structured with inertial resonators. The structural element is composed of a heavy core connected to the main freestanding plate through tiny ligaments.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-21 Younes Achaoui , André Diatta , Sébastien Guenneau

A periodically patterned free surface with inclined slits can convert an incident compressional wave into a reflected shear wave with nearly complete efficiency at very low frequency. The system is described by two-dimensional in-plane…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Kaifei Feng , Pai Peng