Recent Articles:
Tunable Field Imbalance and Spin Precession in Magnetic Double Layers
Applied Physics Letters, in press (2004).

Light-Induced Giant Softening of Network Glasses Observed near the Mean-Field Rigidity Transition
Physical Review Letters 92, 245501 (2004).

Acoustic vibrations in free-standing double layer membrances
Phys. Rev. B 70, 075409 (2004).

Confinement and transverse standing acoustic resonances in free-standing membranes
Phys. Rev. B 68, 115430 (2003).

Spin waves in ferromagnetic double layers: Modifications by in-plane spacer-layer currents
Phys. Rev. B 67, 214409 (2003).

High-frequency standing longitudinal acoustic resonances in supported thin films
Phys. Rev. B 67, 075407 (2003).

Probing confined interfacial excitations in buried layers by Brillouin light scattering
Applied Physics Letters 80, 4501 (2002).

Elastic properties of chemically ordered Co3Pt thin films
Journal of Applied Physics 91 (5), 2737 (2002).

Observations of organ-pipe acoustic excitations in supported thin film
Physical Review B (Rapid Communications) 64, R081402 (2001).

Acoustic barriers and observation of guided elastic waves in GaN-AIN structures by Brillouin Scattering
Physical Review B 63, 205302 (2001).

Elastic properties of nanocrystalline zirconium-silicon-boron thin films
Journal of Applied Physics, 89 (8), 4349 (2001).


R. Sooryakumar
Department of Physics
The Ohio State University
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Columbus, OH 43210