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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 50 cited

Long-range nature of surface-enhanced Raman scattering

V. I. Kukushkin, A. B. Van'kov, I. V. Kukushkin

The long-range action of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is probed via distance-dependent measurements of molecular Raman spectra. To this end, identical SERS substrates c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 9 cited

Spin-dependent inter- and intra-valley electron-phonon scattering in germanium

Z. Liu, M. O. Nestoklon, J. L. Cheng +2

We investigate the spin-dependent electron-phonon scatterings of the and valleys and the band structure near the conduction band minima in germanium. We first construct a $…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 2 cited

Symmetrical laws of structure of helicoidally-like biopolymers in the framework of algebraic topology. II. α-helix and DNA structures

M. I. Samoylovich, A. L. Talis

In the framework of algebraic topology the closed sequence of 4-dimensional polyhedra (algebraic polytopes) was defined. This sequence is started by the polytope {240}, discovered…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 10 cited

High-temperature structural phase transition in multiferroic LiCu_2O_2

S. A. Ivanov, A. A. Bush, K. E. Kamentsev +4

LiCu_2O_2 single crystals were studied in the temperature range 300-1100 K by means of heating-cooling curves of differential thermal analysis (DTA), thermogravimetry (TG), X-ray p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 198 cited

Puzzle of the gamma-alpha and other phase transitions in cerium

A. V. Nikolaev, A. V. Tsvyashchenko

We discuss recent research on the phase transitions in cerium under pressure, including new experiments on the gamma-alpha transition, which indicate that it is a hidden structural…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 5 cited

Irradiation Induced Dimensional Changes in Bulk Graphite; The theory

S. V. Panyukov, A. V. Subbotin, M. V. Arjakov

Basing on experimental data on irradiation-induced deformation of graphite we introduced a concept of diffuse domain structure developed in reactor graphite produced by extrusion.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 420 cited

Matching domain wall configuration and spin-orbit torques for very efficient domain-wall motion

A. V. Khvalkovskiy, V. Cros, D. Apalkov +6

In our numerical study, we identify the best conditions for efficient domain wall motion by spin-orbit torques originating from the Spin Hall effect or Rashba effect. We demonstrat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 3 cited

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism in (Ge,Mn) compounds: experiments and modeling

Samuel Tardif, Andrey Titov, Emmanuel Arras +10

X-ray absorption (XAS) and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) spectra at the L edges of Mn in (Ge,Mn) compounds have been measured and are compared to the results of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 4 cited

Interplay of ballistic and chemical effects in the formation of structural defects for Sn and Pb implanted silica

R. J. Green, A. Hunt, D. A. Zatsepin +6

The electronic structures of Sn and Pb implanted SiO2 are studied using soft X-ray absorption (XAS) and emission (XES) spectroscopy. We show, using reference compounds and ab initi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 87 cited

Thermal Casimir effect in the interaction of graphene with dielectrics and metals

M. Bordag, G. L. Klimchitskaya, V. M. Mostepanenko

We investigate the thermal Casimir interaction of a suspended graphene described by the Dirac model with a plate made of dielectric or metallic materials. The reflection coefficien…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 11 cited

Spin dependent recombination based magnetic resonance spectroscopy of bismuth donor spins in silicon at low magnetic fields

P. A. Mortemousque, T. Sekiguchi, C. Culan +4

Low-field (6-110 mT) magnetic resonance of bismuth (Bi) donors in silicon has been observed by monitoring the change in photoconductivity induced by spin dependent recombination. T…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 11 cited

Thermoelectric properties of Pr3Rh4Sn13-type Yb3Co4Ge13 and Yb3Co4Sn13 compounds

A. V. Morozkin, V. Yu. Irkhin, V. N. Nikiforov

Crystallographic data and thermoelectric properties (from 240 K up to 380 K) of Yb3Co4Ge13, Yb3Co4Sn13 compounds and Yb2CeCo4Ge13 and Yb2.3La0.7Co4Ge13 solid solutions are reported…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012

Ultrafast electronic and lattice dynamics in laser-excited crystalline bismuth

Alexey A. Melnikov, Oleg V. Misochko, Sergey V. Chekalin

Femtosecond spectroscopy is applied to study transient electronic and lattice processes in bismuth. Components with relaxation times of 1 ps, 7 ps and ~ 1 ns are detected in the ph…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 22 cited

Modulation of a surface plasmon-polariton resonance by sub-terahertz diffracted coherent phonons

Christian Brüggemann, Andrey V. Akimov, Boris A. Glavin +9

Coherent sub-THz phonons incident on a gold grating that is deposited on a dielectric substrate undergo diffraction and thereby induce an alteration of the surface plasmon-polarito…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 160 cited

Surface and bulk Fermiology and band dispersion in non-centrosymmetric BiTeI

Gabriel Landolt, Sergey V. Eremeev, Yury M. Koroteev +11

BiTeI has a layered and non-centrosymmetric structure where strong spin-orbit interaction leads to a giant spin splitting in the bulk bands. Here we present high-resolution angle-r…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 5 cited

Generation of electron spin polarization in disordered organic semiconductors

A. I. Shushin

The generation mechanisms of electron spin polarization (ESP) of charge carriers (electrons and holes, called "doublets") in doublet-doublet recombination and triplet-doublet quenc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 12 cited

Configurational instability at the excited impurity ions in alkaline earth fluorites

Alexander Egranov, Tat'yana Sizova

The formation of intrinsic defects by ionizing radiation in some ionic crystals in the anion sublattice is only associated with the instability of the self-trapped exciton up to no…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 21 cited

Giant direct magnetoelectric effect in strained multiferroic heterostructures

Pierre-Eymeric Janolin, Nikolay A. Pertsev, David Sichuga +1

The direct magnetoelectric (ME) effect mediated by lattice strains induced in a ferroelectric film by a ferromagnetic substrate is evaluated using first-principles-based calculatio…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 22 cited

Interface-driven phase separation in multifunctional materials: the case of GeMn ferromagnetic semiconductor

Emmanuel Arras, Frédéric Lançon, Ivetta Slipukhina +11

We use extensive first principle simulations to show the major role played by interfaces in the mechanism of phase separation observed in semiconductor multifunctional materials. W…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 16 cited

Electron-phonon relaxation and excited electron distribution in zinc oxide and anatase

V. P. Zhukov, V. G. Tyuterev, E. V. Chulkov

We propose a first-principle method for evaluations of the time-dependent electron distribution function of excited electrons in the conduction band of semiconductors. The method t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 38 cited

Valence-band satellite in the ferromagnetic nickel: LDA+DMFT study with exact diagonalization

Jindrich Kolorenc, Alexander I. Poteryaev, Alexander I. Lichtenstein

The valence-band spectrum of the ferromagnetic nickel is calculated using the LDA+DMFT method. The auxiliary impurity model emerging in the course of the calculations is discretize…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 1 cited

Effect of impurities on growth and morphology of cementite nanowires

D. W. Boukhvalov, M. I. Katsnelson, Yu. N. Gornostyrev

Effects of doping on morphology of iron carbide (cementite) nanowires have been explored by first principle electronic structure calculations. We examined the role of several reali…