The control and manipulation of acoustic/elastic waves is a fundamental problem with many potential applications, especially in the field of information and communication technologies. For instance, confinement, guiding, and filtering phenomena at the scale of the wavelength are useful for signal processing, advanced nanoscale sensors, and acousto-optic on-chip devices; acoustic metamaterials, working in particular in the sub-wavelength regime can be used for efficient and broadband sound isolation as well as for imaging and super-resolution.Phononic crystals, which are artificial materials constituted by a periodic repetition of inclusions in a matrix, are proposed to achieve these objectives via the possibility of engineering their band structures. The elastic properties, shape, and arrangement of the scatterers modify strongly the propagation of the acoustic/elastic waves in the structure. The phononic band structure and dispersion curves can then be tailored with appropriate choices of materials, crystal lattices, and topology of inclusions.Similarly to any periodic structure, the propagation of acoustic waves in a phononic crystal is governed by the Bloch [1] or Floquet theorem from which one can derive the band structure in the corresponding Brillouin zone. The periodicity of the structures, that defines the Brillouin zone, may be in one (1D), two (2D), or three dimensions (3D). The propagation of acoustic waves in layered periodic materials or superlattices which are now being considered as 1D phononic crystals has been extensively studied [2] since the early paper of Rytov [3]. However, the