• Gives a connected account of principles and practice, including the underlying theory and practical implementation of the methodology
• Acoustic microscopy allows to image the elastic properties of materials
• Acoustic microscopy gives strong contrast from defects including subsurface defects invisible otherwise
• Illustrated with a wealth of examples
• Second edition has a major new chapter on acoustically excited probe microscopy, which enables the elastic structure to be imaged with nanoscale resolution

Readership: Graduate students and professionals in engineering, physics and material science.

Andrew Briggs, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, and Oleg Kolosov, Department of Physics, University of Lancaster

Review(s) from previous edition

"Acoustic microscopy had already helped to solve many problems in materials science. A textbook giving a full treatment of acoustic microscopy was therefore bound to be very welcome. Here it is! - Ultrasonics

"Such an elegant technique, so widely applicable, is bound to attract increasing numbers of enthusiasts. They can do no better than turn to this excellent book and learn not only the tools of their specialism but also a great deal of physics admirably expounded and faultlessly illustrated. [...] This is a great book." - Contemporary Physics

"A masterly volume that will not easily be surpassed." - Proceedings RMS

1: Son et Lumiere
2: Focusing and Scanning
3: Resolution
4: Lens Design and Selection
5: Electronic Circuits for Quantitative Microscopy
6: A Little Elementary Acoustics
7: Contrast Theory
8: Experimental Elastic Microanalysis
9: Biological Tissue
10: Layered Structures
11: Anisotropy
12: Surface Cracks and Boundaries
13: Acoustically Excited Probe Microscopy
14: So what happens when you defocus?
References
Index