A technique to improve the epitaxial growth of some fcc and bcc metals on rock salt An analysis of the temperature dependence of Griineisen parameters of copper, silver, gold, and aluminium is performed in terms of the elastic constants and their pressure derivatives by a new lattice dynamical model. The model satisfies the symmetry requirements of the lattice and the lattice is in eqUilibrium without recourse to external forces. The microscopic Griineisen parameters Yqj are calculated as a function of wave vector q, along the principal symmetry directions, (100), (110), (III), (210), (211), and (221), and the values are averaged over the wave vector space in the first Brillouin zone. For the evaluation of integrals, the modified Houston's method is used. The Griineisen parameters computed in our present study show reasonably satisfactory agreement with experimental measurements.