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Filtering of elastic waves by opal-based hypersonic crystal

Akimov conceived the experiments and co-ordinated the work of the Nottingham, Dortmund and Ioffe groups. Akimov analysed and explained the experimental results, as well as writing the first draft of the paper.

The work required fabrication of opal samples (Kaplan), their optical, X-ray and microscopy characterisation (Pevtsov, Nashchekin, Grudinkin) and ultrafast optical measurements on two sophisticated experimental set-ups (Salasyuk, Scherbakov, Berstermann, Bruggemann, Bombeck). Golubev, Kaplyanskii, Bayer and Yakovlev are the supervisors of the students and postdoctoral research assistants who performed the growth, characterization and measurements, respectively.