Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Thermal management and non-reciprocal control of phonon flow via optomechanics

  • Alireza Seif,
  • Wade DeGottardi,
  • Keivan Esfarjani,
  • Mohammad Hafezi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03624-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Phonon transport control is important for thermal and non-reciprocal devices. Here, Seif et al. combine heat transport in nanostructures and optomechanics into a platform for manipulating phonons with which they design an acoustic isolator and a thermal diode.