For many years Acoustic Microscopy by Andrew Briggs has been the definitive book on the subject. A key development since it was first published has been the development of ultrasonic force microscopy, in which the elastic vibrations are detected with nanometre resolution by the tip of an atomic force microscope. The 2nd edition has a major new chapter on this technique and its applications.

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

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

`Review 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