Semiconductors and Insulators. - Dielectric Properties and Lattice Dynamics of Semiconductors. - Ab-initio Calculation of the Lattice Dynamics of Si: Dielectric Screening Theory. - Comments on Computational Methods for Structural Energies of Semiconductors. - A Definitione Calculation of Structure and Lattice Dynamics of GaAs. - Lattice Dynamics of Cuprite (Cu2O). - Metals And Metallic Compounds. - Lattice Vibrations in Simple Metals. - The Thermal Properties of Metallic Sodium near Melt from Molecular Dynamics Calculation. - Phonons in Amorphous Metals. - Phonons and Electron-Phonon Coupling in Metals. - Surfaces. - Acoustic and Optical Surface Phonons. - Green's Function Calculation of Surface Phonons in Ionic Crystals. - Theory of Electron-Phonon Interaction and its Influence on Reconstruction of Semiconductor Surfaces. - Frequencies of Longitudinal Vibrations of a Two-Dimensional Wigner Crystal coupled to Ripplons on the Surface of Liquid Helium. - Author Index. Language: English