The 350-nm-wide computational cell used comprises a 63-nm-thick layer of a 100-nm-wide BARC stripe sandwiched between two 125-nm-wide Py stripes, atop a 2-μm-thick selleck Si substrate, with its bottom boundary fixed. It is to be noted that unlike the case of the 1D Py/Fe

nanostripe array of [7], no interfacial air gaps were considered in the calculations, as the fabrication process employed here precludes their formation. Elastic parameters used in the simulations for Py, BARC, and Si are Young’s moduli = 180, 6.26, and 169 GPa; Poisson ratios = 0.31, 0.34, and 0.064; and mass densities = 8600, 1190, and 2330 kg/m3, respectively [19–21]. The simulated dispersion relations for the lowest three SAW branches, below the

longitudinal bulk wave threshold [22, 23], presented in Figure  2a, accord well with the Brillouin measurements. Also shown in the figure are the dispersion relations of the vertically polarized transverse (T) and longitudinal (L) bulk waves, in the [110] direction, of the Si substrate. Simulated mode profiles for q = π/a, shown in Figure  2b, of the lowest two modes exhibit characteristics of the surface Rayleigh wave (RW). These RWs are standing Bloch waves satisfying the Bragg scattering condition. The mode profile of the third branch at the BZ boundary reveals that it is also a standing wave with most of its energy confined in the BARC stripes. Mode profiles for q = 1.4π/a displayed in Figure  2c indicate that at this see more wavevector, the first branch has the characteristics of the RW. In contrast, the higher two SAWs leak energy PXD101 into the Si substrate as their dispersion curves extend beyond

the transverse bulk wave threshold [16, 22–24]. The dispersion relations of the RW and Sezawa wave (SW), modeled by treating the Py/BARC array as a homogeneous effective medium [25] on a Si substrate, are presented in Figure  2a. It can be seen that the gap opening arises from the zone folding of the RW dispersions and avoided crossings at the BZ boundary. A prominent feature of the phonon dispersion spectrum is the large hybridization bandgap. For a structure, such as ours, Levetiracetam comprising a ‘slow’ film on a ‘fast’ substrate, Sezawa waves will exist only below the transverse bulk wave threshold, and over a restricted range of qh, where h is the film thickness [23, 26]. As shown in Figure  2a, within the first BZ, the SW and zone-folded RW do not cross, indicating that the measured bandgap does not originate from the hybridization of these waves. Instead, within the bandgap, the zone-folded RW crosses the transverse bulk wave threshold. Additionally, above but close to this threshold, attenuated SAWs called pseudo-Sezawa waves which exist as resonances with the substrate continuum of modes have been observed [23, 26, 27]. We thus attribute the origin of the bandgap to the hybridization and avoided crossing of the zone-folded RW and pseudo-Sezawa waves.