H. Xia et al., PHONON-SPECTRA OF A-SIN-ALPHA-H SI HETEROSTRUCTURES OBSERVED BY BRILLOUIN LIGHT-SCATTERING/, Chinese Physics Letters, 10(10), 1993, pp. 627-629
Low-frequency phonon spectra in a-SiN(x):H/Si heterostructures have be
en observed by means of Brillouin light scattering. Measurement of the
frequency shift on longitudinal and transverse acoustic phonons as we
ll as on surface phonons enabled us to extract accurately two independ
ent elastic moduli: c11 and c44 deduced from phase velocities of bulk
acoustic modes and scattering wavevector, within effective medium appr
oximation.