Affiliation:
1. Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnology, IFN-CNR, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
Abstract
The acousto-electric (AE) effect associated with the propagation of the Rayleigh wave in ZnO half-space was theoretically investigated by studying the changes in wave velocity and propagation loss induced by in-depth inhomogeneous changes in the ZnO electrical conductivity. An exponentially decaying profile for the electrical conductivity was attributed to the ZnO half-space, for some values of the exponential decay constant (from 100 to 500 nm), in order to simulate the photoconductivity effect induced by ultra-violet illumination. The calculated Rayleigh wave velocity and attenuation vs. ZnO conductivity curves have the form of a double-relaxation response as opposed to the single-relaxation response which characterizes the well-known AE effect due to surface conductivity changes onto piezoelectric media. As to the author’s knowledge, this is the first time the double-relaxation AE effect has been theoretically predicted.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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