Publications (30)
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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).
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In-plane polarized collective modes in detwinned YBaCuO observed by spectral ellipsometry
C. Bernhard, T. Holden, J. HumlÃÄek +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…
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…
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…
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…