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Problem: Phonons in Silicon

     Determine the sound velocity of the transverse acoustic modes in silicon, using the measured phonon spectrum (see, for example, Landolt-Börnstein [21] vol. 17, p. 370). Is this sound velocity isotropic?gif

 

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Laszlo Mihaly
Thu Oct 31 13:23:11 EST 1996

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