CoQuS Colloquium - Sebastian Huber

04.12.2017

On Monday, 4 Dezember 2017, Sebastian Huber (ETH Zurich) will speak about "A quantized quadrupole insulator in a mechanical metamaterial"

Seminar Talk

by
Sebastian Huber

ETH Zurich

 

"A quantized quadrupole insulator in a mechanical metamaterial"

 

 

The elastic properties of materials are determined by a few material constants such as the Young’s modulus. Using super-structures one can effectively change these “constants”. In this way we obtain functionalities such as wave-guiding, acoustic lensing or programmable failure. I will show how topological band theory, known from the description of electrons in solids, provides us with a powerful design-principle for such mechanical metamaterials.

 

Monday, 4 December 2017,
16:30  get-together with coffe and snacks!

 

Lise Meitner Hörsaal, Strudlhofgasse 4, 1st floor, Vienna

 

 The seminar talk will be preceded by a CoQuS Student talk at 17:00h by

Ralf Riedinger 

University of Vienna

Across-chip entanglement of nanomechanical oscillators


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