Phonons are sound particles or quantized vibrations of atoms in solid materials. The Debye model, a theory introduced by physicist Peter Debye in 1912, describes the contribution of phonons to the ...

A new comment in the Journal of Materials Science reports that a 2013 computational study of NaCl-type transition-metal ...

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THE methods of Debye 1 are accepted in the scattering of electrons by gases, but despite the application to thin films by Germer and White 2 their use in kinematic electron diffraction from ...

Fig. 1 The dielectric response models for conventional dielectric materials and for metamaterials. For conventional dielectric materials, there are three types of polarization models: Drude model for ...