Phonons: Theory and Experiments I

This two-volume treatment grew out of lectures the author gave at the "Ecole Poly technique Federale de Lausanne" during the years 1975-1980 for graduate students in experimental physics in their last year of study. It is written by an experimentalist with some interest in theory and is ad­ dressed mainly to experimentalists, but also to theoreticians interested in experiments. This treatment trie...