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The primary motivation for high frequency phonon propagation research is its application to a variety of transport problems at thermal frequencies. The strong dependence of anharmonic phonon decay processes, of defect- and electron-phonon scattering and acoustic dispersion on phonon frequency makes it particularly interesting to study high frequency phonon transport in solids. These effects become particularly dominant at frequencies of the order of 1012 Hz. During the last decade there has been a great deal of activity in this area. This has been due to the development of thin film generators and detectors such as superconducting tunneling junctions and bolometers. The use of such devices for phonon detection has been reviewed by von Gutfeld (1968) and Eisenmenger (1976, 1980a).
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Narayanamurti, V. (1981). Phonon Optics in Semiconductors. In: Gray, K.E. (eds) Nonequilibrium Superconductivity, Phonons, and Kapitza Boundaries. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 65. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3935-9_4
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