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cond-mat1996

Comparison of Bond Character in Hydrocarbons and Fullerenes

D. W. Snoke, M. Cardona, S. Sanguinetti +1

We present a comparison of the bond polarizabilities for carbon-carbon bonds in hydrocarbons and fullerenes, using two different models for the fullerene Raman spectrum and the res…

cond-mat.str-el1999

Resonant Raman scattering in NaV2O5 as a probe of its electronic structure

M. J. Konstantinovic, Z. V. Popovic, T. Ruf +4

In order to investigate the origin of the phase transition observed in NaVO, as well as its electronic structure, we have measured Raman intensities as a function of the la…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010

Electronic and phononic properties of cinnabar: ab initio calculations and some experimental results

M. Cardona, R. K. Kremer, R. Lauck +4

We report ab initio calculations of the electronic band structure, the corresponding optical spectra, and the phonon dispersion relations of trigonal alpha-HgS (cinnabar). The calc…

hep-ex2026

Charged kaon and proton multiplicities in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering with 11 GeV electrons

P. Bosted, W. Armstrong, H. Bhatt +67

Measurements of SIDIS multiplicities for charged kaons and protons from proton and deuteron targets are reported on a grid of hadron kinematic variables and

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2001

Electron-phonon renormalization of the absorption edge of the cuprous halides

J. Serrano, Ch. Schweitzer, C. T. Lin +3

Compared to most tetrahedral semiconductors, the temperature dependence of the absorption edges of the cuprous halides (CuCl, CuBr, CuI) is very small. CuCl and CuBr show a small i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2007

Temperature-dependent Raman scattering of natural and isotopically substituted PbS

P. G. Etchegoin, M. Cardona, R. Lauck +3

Lead sulfide is an important semiconductor that has found technological applications for over a century. Raman spectroscopy, a standard tool for the investigation and characterizat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2007

Effect of the spin-orbit interaction on the thermodynamic properties of crystals: The specific heat of bismuth

Diaz-Luis, A. H. Romero, M. Cardona +2

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the specific heat of insulators and semiconductors because of the availability of samples with different isotopic masses…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008

Lattice Dynamics and Specific Heat of - GeTe: a theoretical and experimental study

R. Shaltaf, X. Gonze, M. Cardona +2

We extend recent \textit{ab initio} calculations of the electronic band structure and the phonon dispersion relations of rhombohedral GeTe to calculations of the density of phonon…

cond-mat.supr-con1999

The anomaly of the oxygen bond-bending mode at 320 cm and the additional absorption peak in the c-axis infrared conductivity of underdoped YBaCuO single crystals revisited by ellipsometricmeasurements

C. Bernhard, D. Munzar, A. Golnik +4

We have performed ellipsometric measurements of the far-infrared c-axis dielectric response of underdoped YBaCuO single crystals. Here we report a detailed ana…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2004

Heat Capacity of Isotopically Enriched 28Si, 29Si and 30Si

A. Gibin, G. G. Devyatykh, A. V. Gusev +3

The heat capacity of isotopically enriched 28Si, 29Si, 30Si samples has been measured in the temperature range between 4K and 100K. The heat capacity of Si increases with isotopic…

hep-ex2026

Flavor, transverse momentum, and azimuthal dependence of charged pion multiplicities in SIDIS with 10.6 GeV electrons

Hall C SIDIS Collaboration, P. Bosted, H. Bhatt +68

Measurements of SIDIS multiplicities for and from proton and deuteron targets are reported on a grid of hadron kinematic variables , , and for lept…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005

Heat capacity of -GaN: Isotope Effects

R. K. Kremer, M. Cardona, E. Schmitt +7

Until recently, the heat capacity of GaN had only been measured for polycrystalline powder samples. Semiempirical as well as \textit{first-principles} calculations have appeared wi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011

Vibrational and Thermal Properties of ZnX (X=Se, Te): Density Functional Theory (LDA and GGA) versus Experiment

R. K. Kremer, M. Cardona, R. Lauck +2

We calculated the phonon dispersion relations of ZnX (X=Se, Te) employing ab initio techniques. These relations have been used to evaluate the temperature dependence of the respect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2002

Anharmonic Self-Energy of Phonons: Ab Initio Calculations and Neutron Spin Echo Measurements

A. Debernardi, F. de Geuser, J. Kulda +2

We have calculated (ab initio) and measured (by spin-echo techniques) the anharmonic self-energy of phonons at the X-point of the Brillouin zone for isotopically pure germanium. Th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009

Electronic, vibrational, and thermodynamic properties of ZnS (zincblende and rocksalt structure)

M. Cardona, R. K. Kremer, R. Lauck +4

We have measured the specific heat of zincblende ZnS for several isotopic compositions and over a broad temperature range (3 to 1100 K). We have compared these results with calcula…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2007

Heat Capacity of PbS: Isotope Effects

M. Cardona, R. K. Kremer, R. Lauck +3

In recent years, the availability of highly pure stable isotopes has made possible the investigation of the dependence of the physical properties of crystals, in particular semicon…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2002

Evangelos Anastassakis: Scientist, Colleague and Friend

M. Cardona

Proceedings contribution to Symposium in Memory of Prof. E. Anastassakis, Publ. Center of Technical University of Athens (2002). (contains no abstract).

cond-mat.supr-con2009

Electronic and phononic Raman scattering in detwinned YBaCuO and YCaBaCuO: s-wave admixture to the -wave order parameter

M. Bakr, A. P. Schnyder, L. Klam +5

Inelastic light (Raman) scattering has been used to study electronic excitations and phonon anomalies in detwinned, slightly overdoped YBaCuO and moderately overdo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008

Lattice Properties of PbX (X = S, Se, Te): Experimental Studies and ab initio Calculations Including Spin-Orbit Effects

A. H. Romero, M. Cardona, R. K. Kremer +4

During the past five years the low temperature heat capacity of simple semiconductors and insulators has received renewed attention. Of particular interest has been its dependence…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2001

Dependence of the Excitation Energies of Boron in Diamond on Isotopic Mass

M. Cardona

Kim et al. have reported a dependence of the infrared excitation energies of boron acceptors in diamond on the isotopic mass of the carbon atoms. We show that this change can be qu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011

Electronic and phononic properties of the chalcopyrite CuGaS2

A. H. Romero, M. Cardona, R. K. Kremer +5

The availability of ab initio electronic calculations and the concomitant techniques for deriving the corresponding lattice dynamics have been profusely used for calculating thermo…

cond-mat.supr-con1999

Anomalies of the infrared-active phonons in underdoped YBCO as an evidence for the intra-bilayer Josephson effect

D. Munzar, C. Bernhard, A. Golnik +2

The spectra of the far-infrared c-axis conductivity of underdoped YBCO crystals exhibit dramatic changes of some of the phonon peaks when going from the normal to the superconducti…

cond-mat.supr-con2000

Far-infrared c-axis conductivity of flux-grown YPrBaCuO single crystals studied by spectral ellipsometry

C. Bernhard, T. Holden, A. Golnik +2

The far-infrared c-axis conductivity of flux-grown YPrBaCuO single crystals with 0.2x0.5 has been studied by sepectral ellipsometry. W…

cond-mat1996

Magnetic-field-enhanced outgoing excitonic resonance in multi-phonon Raman scattering from polar semiconductors

I. G. Lang, A. V. Prokhorov, M. Cardona +3

A combined scattering mechanism involving the states of free electron-hole pairs (exciton continuum) and discrete excitons as intermediate states in the multi-phonon Raman scatteri…

cond-mat2003

Isotopic disorder in Ge single crystals probed with 73Ge NMR

S. V. Verkhovskii, A. Yu. Yakubovsky, B. Z. Malkin +4

NMR spectra of 73 Ge (nuclear spin I = 9/2) in germanium single crystals with different isotopic compositions have been measured at the frequency of 17.4 MHz at room temperature. D…

cond-mat2001

Disorder-induced phonon self-energy of semiconductors with binary isotopic composition

F. Widulle, J. Serrano, M. Cardona

Self-energy effects of Raman phonons in isotopically disordered semiconductors are deduced by perturbation theory and compared to experimental data. In contrast to the acoustic fre…

cond-mat.supr-con2001

In-plane polarized collective modes in detwinned YBaCuO observed by spectral ellipsometry

C. Bernhard, T. Holden, J. Humlíček +8

The in-plane dielectric response of detwinned YBaCuO has been studied by far-infared ellipsometry. A surprisingly lare number of in-plane polarized modes are o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2004

Effect of isotopic mass on the photoluminescence spectra of beta zinc sulfide

F. J. Manjon, M. Mollar, B. Mari +4

Zinc sulfide is a wide bandgap semiconductor which crystallizes in either the wurtzite modification (a-ZnS), the zincblende modification (b-ZnS) or as one of several similar tetrah…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009

Electronic, vibrational and thermodynamic properties of beta-HgS (metacinnabar), HgSe and HgTe

M. Cardona, R. K. Kremer, R. Lauck +3

We report ab initio calculations of the electronic band structure and the phonon dispersion relations of the zincblende-type mercury chalcogenides (beta-HgS, HgSe, and HgTe). The l…

cond-mat.other2004

Long-lived optical phonons in ZnO studied with impulsive stimulated Raman scattering

C. Aku-Leh, J. Zhao, R. Merlin +2

The anharmonic properties of the low-frequency E2 phonon in ZnO were measured using impulsive stimulated Raman scattering. At 5 K, the frequency and lifetime are (2.9787 +/- 0.0002…