Raman spectra and dielectric function of BiCrO3: Experimental and first-principles studies

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Himcinschi, Cameliu ^a   Vrejoiu, Ionela ^b   Weißbach, Torsten ^a   Vijayanandhini, Kannan ^b   Talkenberger, Andreas ^a   Röder, Christian ^a   Bahmann, Silvia ^a   Zahn, Dietrich R T ^c   Belik, Alexei A ^d   Rafaja, David ^a   Kortus, Jens ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^c CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITAXIAL FILMS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION ONSET; COMPLEX DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY IN THE GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATION; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; ENERGY RANGES; EPITAXIAL THIN FILMS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDY; HUBBARD; IMAGINARY PARTS; POLYCRYSTALLINE; STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITION; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT RAMAN; X-RAY DIFFRACTION INVESTIGATIONS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 80055005434     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3642985     Document Type: Article

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