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# Phononic crystal
This example shows how to add holes to your structure and can be reproduced with `examples/phononic_crystal.py` input file. The structure contains the square array of holes defined in the input file as:
```
# Lattice of holes:
HOLES = []
period = 300e-9
for row in range(6):
for column in range(5):
x = - 4 * period / 2 + column * period
y = (row + 1) * period
HOLES.append(CircularHole(x=x, y=y, diameter=200e-9))
```
Here, the `HOLES` list is filled with the `CircularHole` objects. This will create a structure that looks like so:
Phonon trajectories.
If we increase the number of phonons to several thousand, we can see some interesting distributions, for example the distributions of phonon angle at the beginning (red) and end (blue) of the structure. Interestingly, the array of holes "aligned" phonon trajectories along the passages between the holes \[1, 2].
Angular distributions of phonons on hot and cold sides.
One can also output, for example, phonon frequency spectrum or time phonons took to reach the cold side.
Phonon frequency spectrum.
Time that phonons took to reach the cold side.
The file `information.txt` also contains various statistical insights, for example, the scattering likelihood:
```
99% of phonons reached the cold side
11.09% - scattering on side walls (14.98% - diffuse, 85.02% - specular)
48.50% - scattering on top and bottom walls (0.94% - diffuse, 99.06% - specular)
3.68% - rethermalization at the hot side
0.00% - internal scattering processes
45.52% - scattering on hole walls (19.61% - diffuse, 80.39% - specular)
```
### References
1. Singh et al. [Applied Physics Letters, (2023)](https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0137221)
2. Anufriev et al. [Materials Today Physics 15, 100272 (2021)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542529320300961)
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