Abstract: | This article deals with the experimental determination of separate vibrational anharmonic contributions to the self‐energy of phonons in any crystals based on temperature dependence of their Raman spectra. We propose a new approach to find each anharmonic contribution by using special temperature points. We apply the approach to diamond, silicon, and crystalline α‐S8 and show that our results for summarized anharmonicity in diamond and silicon are in good agreement with the values obtained previously for these systems by other researchers. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |