Optical and Computational Studies of Elastic and Defect Properties of Materials

Abstract

Experimental studies on a variety of different systems by means of optical spectroscopic methods are described together with appropriate computational approaches to model their behaviour. Investigations are described of superionic compounds by Brillouin scattering, of opaque solids and thin supported films by surface Brillouin scattering, and of halogen clusters in irradiated alkali halides by Raman scattering and optical absorption.