Surface Waves in a Laterally Varying Layered Structure

Surface Waves in Laterally Inhomogeneous Regions

Effect of Micropolarity on the Propagation of Shear Waves in a Piezoelectric Layered Structure

This paper studies the propagation of shear waves in a composite structure consisting of a piezoelectric layer perfectly bonded over a micropolar elastic half space. The general dispersion equations for the existence of shear waves are obtained analytically in the closed form. Some particular cases have been discussed and in one special case the relation obtained is in agreement with existing r...

Love waves in a piezoelectric layered structure

Consider a layer made of a m3m insulator crystal, with faces cut parallel to a symmetry plane. Then bond it onto a semi-infinite mm2 piezoelectric substrate. For a Xor Y -cut of the substrate, a Love wave can propagate in the resulting structure and the corresponding dispersion equation is derived analytically. It turns out that a fully explicit treatment can also be conducted in the case of a ...

Surface Josephson plasma waves in layered superconductors.

We predict the existence of surface waves in layered superconductors in the THz frequency range, below the Josephson plasma frequency omega J. This wave propagates along the vacuum-superconductor interface and dampens in both transverse directions out of the surface (i.e., towards the superconductor and towards the vacuum). This is the first prediction of propagating surface waves in any superc...

Guided waves in a multi-layered optical structure

Motivated by the study of the propagation of electromagnetic waves through a multi-layered optical medium, we prove the existence of two different kinds of homoclinic solutions to the origin in a Schrödinger equation with a nonlinear term. We use a Krasnoselskii fixed point theorem together with a compactness criterion due to Zima. The main results are illustrated with concrete examples of prac...