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
Hosted by: Peter Rabl
