Research Article

Floquet-Bloch Theory and Its Application to the Dispersion Curves of Nonperiodic Layered Systems

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Superposition of the dispersion curves obtained with the numerical searching root method (6) and with the proposed F-B method, for aspect ratio (a). Overlap of F-B method and the simulated MASW method dispersion curves (b). Overlap of F-B method and the experimental dispersion curves (c).
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