In- and out-of-plane longitudinal acoustic-wave velocities and elastic moduli in h-BN from Brillouin scattering measurements

The elastic constants of high-quality, single-crystal hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) have been measured by means of high resolution Brillouin spectroscopy using a modified reflected light microscope. The sound propagation velocity in the c-axis direction and perpendicular to the c-axis have been obt...

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Autores: Jiménez Riobóo, R. J., Artús, Lluís, Cuscó, Ramón, Taniguchi, Takashi, Cassabois, Guillaume, Gil, Bernard
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/160878
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/160878
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Elastic moduli
Optical metrology
Acoustic wave velocity
Optical properties
Spectroscopy
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Sumario:The elastic constants of high-quality, single-crystal hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) have been measured by means of high resolution Brillouin spectroscopy using a modified reflected light microscope. The sound propagation velocity in the c-axis direction and perpendicular to the c-axis have been obtained from the Brillouin frequency shift, with a proper account taken of the vast difference between the ordinary and extraordinary refractive indices recently reported in the highly anisotropic layered h-BN crystal. The elastic constants c11 and c33 obtained from the Brillouin experiments are somewhat lower than previous determinations based on inelastic x-ray measurements and confirm the overestimation of the h-BN elastic constants by ab initio calculations based on density functional perturbation theory in the local density approximation.