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Etienne Coffy received a Best Student Paper Award during the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium that was held in Tours from September 18 to 21, 2016. Etienne Coffy, a PhD applicant in the Phononics and...

The IEEE Carl Hellmuth Hertz Ultrasonics Award is intended for primary investigators that have contributed to the field of ultrasonics. Vincent Laude was presented with the award during the IEEE...

The May 2016 issue of Comptes Rendus Physique, an international peer-reviewed journal of the French Academy of Sciences published by Elsevier, is devoted to phononic crystals. The special issue was...

Locally-resonant opacity and transparency in acoustic metamaterials For more than twenty years now, Acoustic Metamaterials are experiencing a growing success, partly due to exotic phenomena and their...

Band gaps and waveguiding of surface acoustic waves in pillars-based phononic crystals Abstract : After an overview of the different computational methods dedicated to modeling propagation in phononic...

High resolution femtosecond instrumentation platform (in French) We present in this work an investigation of thermal and acoustic properties of samples by thermoreflectance with high spatial...

The book "Phononic crystals" edited by A. Khelif and A. Adibi has been published by Springer in August 2015. This book provides an in-depth analysis as well as an overview of phononic crystals. This...

" Phononic Crystals: Artificial Crystals for Sonic, Acoustic, and Elastic Waves", authored by Vincent Laude, has been published by De Gruyter in September 2015. Aims and Scope Phononic crystals are...

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