C Kanyinda-Malu et al 2008 Nanotechnology 19 285713 doi:10.1088/0957-4484/19/28/285713
C Kanyinda-Malu1,2, F J Clares1 and R M de la Cruz1,3
Show affiliationsWithin the framework of the dielectric continuum (DC) model, we analyze the axial interface optical phonon modes in a double system of nanoshells. This system is constituted by two identical equidistant nanoshells which are embedded in an insulating medium. To illustrate our results, typical II–VI semiconductors are used as constitutive polar materials of the nanoshells. Resolution of Laplace's equation in bispherical coordinates for the potentials derived from the interface vibration modes is made. By imposing the usual electrostatic boundary conditions at the surfaces of the two-nanoshell system, recursion relations for the coefficients appearing in the potentials are obtained, which entails infinite matrices. The problem of deriving the interface frequencies is reduced to the eigenvalue problem on infinite matrices. A truncating method for these matrices is used to obtain the interface phonon branches. Dependences of the interface frequencies on the ratio of inter-nanoshell separation to core size are obtained for different systems with several values of nanoshell interdistance. Effects due to the change of shell and embedding materials are also investigated in interface phonon modes.
63.22.-m Phonons or vibrational states in low-dimensional structures and nanoscale materials
Issue 28 (16 July 2008)
Received 7 April 2008, in final form 12 May 2008
Published 3 June 2008
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