Sankar Ganesh Ramaraj

Dr. Sankar Ganesh Ramaraj

Japan Institute of Science and Technology

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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

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30 June 2020 in Micromachines
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MHMayeesha Haque
Mayeesha Haque
AKAfsal Kareekunnan
Afsal Kareekunnan
FLFayong Liu
Fayong Liu
SRSankar Ganesh Ramaraj
Sankar Ganesh Ramaraj
GEGünter Ellrott
Günter Ellrott
Hiroshi MizutaHiroshi Mizuta
Hiroshi Mizuta
Controlling the heat transport and thermal conductivity through a material is of prime importance for thermoelectric applications. Phononic crystals, which are a nanostructured array of specially designed pores, can suppress heat transportation owing to the phonon wave interference, resulting in bandgap formation in their band structure. To control heat phonon propagation in thermoelectric devices, phononic crystals with a bandgap in the THz regime are desirable. In this study, we carried out simulation on snowflake shaped phononic crystal and obtained several phononic bandgaps in the THz regime, with the highest being at ≈2 THz. The phononic bandgap position and the width of the bandgap were found to be tunable by varying the neck-length of the snowflake structure. A unique bandgap map computed by varying the neck-length continuously provides enormous amounts of information as to the size and position of the phononic bandgap for various pore dimensions. We have also carried out transmission spectrum analysis and found good agreement with the band structure calculations. The pressure map visualized at various frequencies validates the effectiveness of snowflake shaped nano-pores in suppressing the phonons partially or completely, depending on the transmission probabilities.