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Wolfe, J.P. Northrop, Gregory Allen 2011-06-13T17:39:12Z 2011-06-13T17:39:12Z 10000-01-01 1982 This thesis describes the development of the phonon imaging method. This technique permits the direct measurement of the angular and temporal distribution of phonons emitted from a point source of heat in insulators at low temperatures. It is a derivative of the ballistic heat pulse method, but one which uses a pulsed laser to allow continuous two dimensional scanning of the phonon source. In this work we have applied this method to the following topics: 1. Phonon Focusing. In pure defect-free crystaline insulators, heat pulses may propagate macroscopiC distances without scattering. In contrast to diffusive transport of phonons, which is nearly isotropic, the flux of ballistic phonons coming from a heat pulse will display a large anisotropy directly associated with the elastic anisotropy of the crystal. We use phonon imaging to map this anisotropy in Ge, and analyze the data in terms of directions of theoretically singular flux, or singularity lines. 2. Dispersive Phonon Focusing. The shapes of the geometric phonon focusing patterns observed in a ballistic phonon image are independent of phonon frequency in the long wavelength limit. With the aid of a frequency selective detector, which is sensitive only to high frequencies, we observe dispersive shifts in the phonon focusing singularity pattern. The concept of phonon focusing is extended to allow for dispersion, and the results are applied, along with a lattice dynamics model, to predicting the expected singularity shift vs. phonon frequency in Ge. There is good agreement between the images and theory at 800 GHz. 3. Phonon-Dislocation Scattering in LiF. Phonons are known to be strongly scattered by dislocations in LiF and other alkali-halides. We use the phonon imaging method to probe the anisotropy of this scattering cross section in plastically deformed LiF. We measure a strong dependence upon phonon polarization, with a subset of polarizations propagating the length of the sample without scattering. The results fit the coupling anisotropy predicted by the vibrating string model of phonon-dislocation scattering, confirming it as the primary scattering mechanism in this system. Submitted by Carolyn Mead (cmead2@illinois.edu) on 2011-06-13T17:39:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 1982_northrop.pdf: 6376837 bytes, checksum: 21d8a065c41885d4c1c7d28b4d95beeb (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-06-13T17:39:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 1982_northrop.pdf: 6376837 bytes, checksum: 21d8a065c41885d4c1c7d28b4d95beeb (MD5) Previous issue date: 1982 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Carolyn Mead (cmead2@illinois.edu) on 2011-06-13T17:39:12Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:15:33-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: Thesis Thesis U of I Only 92631 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/25403 en 1982 Gregory Allen Northrop phonon imaging phonon focusing phonon-dislocation scattering Phonon imaging Dissertation / Thesis text Physics Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.