Pierre A. Deymier is a researcher in phononics,

acoustic metamaterial An acoustic metamaterial, sonic crystal, or phononic crystal is a material designed to manipulate sound waves or phonons in gases, liquids, and solids (crystal lattices). By carefully controlling properties such as the bulk modulus ''β'', dens ...

, and

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. He is a Professor of

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and Engineering and previously department head at the

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it ...

. He holds appointments with the applied mathematics graduate interdisciplinary program, BIO5 institute, and School of Sustainable Engineered Systems at the

. More recently, he has proposed a novel approach akin to

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using the properties of

phonons A phonon is a collective excitation in a periodic, Elasticity (physics), elastic arrangement of atoms or molecules in condensed matter physics, condensed matter, specifically in solids and some liquids. In the context of optically trapped objects ...

rather than

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s, which he has dubbed "phi-bits" or "phase-bits".

Biography

Education

Deymier received his engineer's degree in materials science in 1982 from

University of Montpellier The University of Montpellier () is a public university, public research university located in Montpellier, in south-east of France. Established in 1220, the University of Montpellier is one of the List of oldest universities in continuous opera ...

in France and his Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...

in 1985. His dissertation research was focused on computational materials science. He became assistant professor of materials science & engineering at the University of Arizona in 1985.

Personal life

His daughter, Alix Deymier, is a professor of biomedical engineering at the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two benefactors. In 1893, ...

Publications

Deymier has published over 180 peer-reviewed publications. Some of his most highly cited works are: # Deymier, P. A.(Ed.). (2013). A''coustic metamaterials and phononic crystal''s (Vol. 173). Springer Science & Business Media. (Cited 714 times, according to

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) # Vasseur, J. O., Deymier, P. A.. Chenni, B., Djafari-Rouhani, B., Dobrzynski, L., & Prevost, D. (2001). Experimental and theoretical evidence for the existence of absolute acoustic band gaps in two-dimensional solid phononic crystals. Physical Review Letters, 86(14), 3012

(open access) (Cited 574 times, according to Google Scholar.) #Sukhovich A, Merheb B, Muralidharan K, Vasseur JO, Pennec Y, Deymier PA, Page JH. Experimental and theoretical evidence for subwavelength imaging in phononic crystals. Physical review letters. 2009 Apr 17;102(15):15430

(open access) (Cited 314 times, according to Google Scholar.) #Pennec Y, Vasseur JO, Djafari-Rouhani B, Dobrzyński L, Deymier PA. Two-dimensional phononic crystals: Examples and applications. Surface Science Reports. 2010 Aug 31;65(8):229-91. (Cited 491 times, according to Google Scholar.) # Vasseur, J. O., Deymier, P. A. Djafari-Rouhani, B., Pennec, Y., & Anne-Christine Hladky, Hladky-Hennion, A. C. (2008). Absolute forbidden bands and waveguiding in two-dimensional phononic crystal plates. Physical Review B, 77(8), 085415

(open access) (Cited 307 times, according to Google Scholar.)

Awards

* Felix Bloch Award, 2023, . The prize honors individuals who have made “outstanding and sustained contributions in the field of phononics”.

References

External links

Group Research Page - University of Arizona
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