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The dispersive properties of Rayleigh waves propagating in the xdirection of ycut quartz have been measured with thin films of gold, copper and silver deposited on the free surface. It is found that the attenuation of the surface waves increases sharply with increasing thickness of the metallic films.
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Cambon et al. (1969) studied this question.
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