MEASUREMENT OF SOUND VELOCITIES IN CRYSTALS USING BRAGG DIFFRACTION OF LIGHT AND APPLICATIONS TO LANTHANUM FLUORIDE
- 1 November 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 13 (9), 310-311
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1652626
Abstract
A method of measuring sound velocities in crystals using Bragg diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves is described. Sound‐velocity data presented for LaF3 are consistent with a trigonal crystal structure and exclude the possibility of a hexagonal structure.Keywords
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