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Wave equation time decay

I am trying to deduce the dispersive estimate for free wave equation in $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ $$u_ {tt}-\Delta_{\mathbb{R}^d}u=0$$ The fundamental solutions are given by $K_t^0(x)=cos(t|\nabla|)\delta(x)$ and $K_t^1(x)=\frac{sin(t|\nabla|)}{|\nabla|}\delta(x)$. According to Tao's dispersive pde textbook, given a Scharwtz function $\phi(x)$, we have the following time decay $$|K^0_t*\phi_\lambda(x)|\lesssim_{\phi,d}\lambda^d<\lambda t>^{-\frac{d-1}{2}}$$, where $<y>=(1+|y|^2)^\frac{1}{2}$. I am trying to deduce the above estimate using stationary phase method. Rewrite the LHS with Fourier transform, we get $$LHS=\int_{\mathbb{R}^d}e^{it|\xi|+ix\cdot\xi}\hat\phi(\lambda^ {-1}\xi) d\xi$$ Since $D^2|\xi|$ degenerates in radial direction, in order to apply stationary phase I rewrote it in polar coordinates, where $\xi=rw, w\in S^{d-1}$ $$\int_0^\infty e^{itr}r^{d-1}\hat\phi(\lambda^{-1}r)\int_{S^ {d-1}}e^{irw\cdot x}dw dr$$ But I am not sure how to proceed from here.