Optical phonon

Optical phonon

Optical phonons are phonon polarization modes with a minimum frequency, regardless of wavelength, which occur in crystals with more than one atom per primitive cell.

Book References

Kittel, Charles (1996) "Introduction to Solid State Physics", 7th Ed., John Wiley and Sons, Inc.


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