Imaging phonons

Abstract

Preface; Prologue; 1. Ballistic heat pulses and phonon imaging - a first look; 2. Phonon focusing; 3. Generation and detection of phonons - experimental aspects; 4. Focusing in cubic crystals; 5. Acoustic symmetry and piezoelectricity; 6. Lattice dynamics; 7. Imaging of dispersive phonons; 8. Phonon dynamics; 9. Bulk scattering of phonons; 10. Quasidiffusion and the phonon source; 11. Phonon scattering at interfaces; 12. Refraction and reflection at solid/solid interfaces - experiment; 13. Imaging ultrasound in crystals; 14. Imaging surface acoustic waves; 15. Interactions of ballistic phonons with electrons; Appendices; Index.