In this paper, we analyze the effect of both deter- ministic and random perturbations of a regular multi-layered elastic structure on its stop band properties. The tool of choice is the transfer matrix method, which i...In this paper, we analyze the effect of both deter- ministic and random perturbations of a regular multi-layered elastic structure on its stop band properties. The tool of choice is the transfer matrix method, which is both versatile and easy to implement. In both cases, we find that the stop-bands widen. We observe the appearance of very narrow pass-bands within the stop-bands, which can be observed in other instances in optics.展开更多
基金a Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge Fellowship of the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme under contract number(MTKD-CT-2004-509809)
文摘In this paper, we analyze the effect of both deter- ministic and random perturbations of a regular multi-layered elastic structure on its stop band properties. The tool of choice is the transfer matrix method, which is both versatile and easy to implement. In both cases, we find that the stop-bands widen. We observe the appearance of very narrow pass-bands within the stop-bands, which can be observed in other instances in optics.