Here you will find all the material and references used in the course given at the PhD school at Aix-Marseille Université in 2025:

Slide of the course

Lectures:

Introduction to phonons
see Chap. 9 of “Solid State Physics” G. Grosso and G. Pastori Parravicini

The Born-Oppenheimer approximation
Lecture Notes on Born-Oppenheimer approximation
see also sec. 8.1,8.2 of “Solid State Physics” G. Grosso and G. Pastori Parravicini

Polar materials and LO-TO splitting
Lecture Notes on Polar Materials
see also sec. 9.7 of “Solid State Physics” G. Grosso and G. Pastori Parravicini
and sec. 6.4 of “Fundamentals of Semiconductors Physics and Materials” P. Y. Yu and M. Cardona

Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy
Lecture Notes on Infrared Spectroscopy
Lecture Notes on Raman
see also sec. 2.2, 3.2,3.3.1 of “Phonons: Theory and Experiments II” P. Bruesch
and sec. 6.4 of “Fundamentals of Semiconductors Physics and Materials” P. Y. Yu and M. Cardona

Electron-phonon and phonon-phonon and other scattering mechanisms
Lecture Notes on Electron-phonon
see also these lecture notes: elph.pdf by Mona Berciu
and sec. 3.3 of “Fundamentals of Semiconductors Physics and Materials” P. Y. Yu and M. Cardona