Volume 54, Issue 16

15 October 1996

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Efficient iterative schemes for ab initio total-energy calculations using a plane-wave basis set

G. Kresse and J. Furthmüller

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11169 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Experimental and theoretical studies of the electronic structure of Ti $S_{2}$

Z. Y. Wu, F. Lemoigno, P. Gressier, G. Ouvrard, P. Moreau, J. Rouxel, and C. R. Natoli

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11009(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Direct calculation of the two-photon line strength of a $Γ_{1 g} - Γ_{1 g}$ transition in octahedral symmetry

Michael Chua and Peter A. Tanner

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11014(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Competition between the Mott transition and Anderson localization in one-dimensional disordered interacting electron systems

Satoshi Fujimoto and Norio Kawakami

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11018(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Bandwidth dependence of insulator-metal transitions in perovskite cobalt oxides

S. Yamaguchi, Y. Okimoto, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11022(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Mott transition in degenerate Hubbard models: Application to doped fullerenes

Olle Gunnarsson, Erik Koch, and Richard M. Martin

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11026(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Optical absorption of CuGe $O_{3}$

M. Bassi, P. Camagni, R. Rolli, G. Samoggia, F. Parmigiani, G. Dhalenne, and A. Revcolevschi

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11030(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Optical conductivity of strongly correlated electron systems

R. Eder, P. Wróbel, and Y. Ohta

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11034(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Titanium-hydrogen defects in silicon

W. Jost and J. Weber

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11038(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Optical detection of electron nuclear double resonance on a residual donor in wurtzite GaN

F. K. Koschnick, K. Michael, J. -M. Spaeth, B. Beaumont, and P. Gibart

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11042(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Nondiffusive excitonic transport in GaAs and the effects of momentum scattering

A. C. Schaefer, J. Erland, and D. G. Steel

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11046(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Observation of compensating Ga vacancies in highly Si-doped GaAs

T. Laine, K. Saarinen, J. Mäkinen, P. Hautojärvi, C. Corbel, L. N. Pfeiffer, and P. H. Citrin

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11050(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Reconstruction transitions during molecular-beam epitaxy on $GaAs (111) B$ vicinal surfaces studied by scanning electron microscopy

Hong-Wen Ren and Tatau Nishinaga

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11054(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Step dynamics and equilibrium structure of monoatomic steps on Si(100)-2×1

J. R. Sánchez and C. M. Aldao

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11058(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Structure and properties of clean and In-covered Ge(103) surfaces

L. Seehoter, G. Falkenberg, and R. L. Johnson

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11062(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Surface unwetting during growth of Ag on Si(001)

J. C. Glueckstein, M. M. R. Evans, and J. Nogami

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11066(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Topological characterization of delocalization in a spin-orbit coupling system

D. N. Sheng and Z. Y. Weng

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11070(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Zero-dimensional excitons in (Zn,Cd)Se quantum structures

M. Lowisch, M. Rabe, B. Stegemann, F. Henneberger, M. Grundmann, V. Türck, and D. Bimberg

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11074(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Quantum wells with zero valence-band offset: Drastic enhancement of forbidden excitonic transitions

A. V. Kavokin, M. A. Kaliteevski, S. V. Goupalov, J. D. Berger, O. Lyngnes, H. M. Gibbs, G. Khitrova, A. Ribayrol, A. Bellabchara, P. Lefebvre, D. Coquillat, and J. P. Lascaray

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11078(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Evolution of the interband absorption threshold with the density of a two-dimensional electron gas

S. A. Brown, Jeff F. Young, J. A. Brum, P. Hawrylak, and Z. Wasilewski

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11082(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Observation of a $D^{-}$ triplet transition in $GaAs / {Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ multiple quantum wells

S. R. Ryu, Z. X. Jiang, W. J. Li, B. D. McCombe, and W. Schaff

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11086(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Frequency-dependent admittance of a two-dimensional quantum wire

Jian Wang and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11090(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Thermopower of quantum nanowires in a magnetic field

E. N. Bogachek, A. G. Scherbakov, and Uzi Landman

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11094(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Folded and confined one-dimensional plasmons in modulated wires

Florent Perez, Bernard Jusserand, Claus Dahl, Marcel Filoche, Laurence Ferlazzo-Manin, and Bernard Etienne

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11098(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Pressure and alloy-composition dependence of $Al / {Ga}_{1 - x} {Al}_{x} As (100)$ Schottky barriers

J. Bardi, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11102(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Tunneling spectroscopy of hole plasmons in a valence-band quantum well

B. R. A. Neves, T. J. Foster, L. Eaves, P. C. Main, M. Henini, D. J. Fisher, M. L. Lerch, A. D. Martin, and C. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11106(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Nonlinear $σ$ model for partially polarized quantum Hall states

T. H. Hansson, A. Karlhede, and J. M. Leinaas

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11110(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Composite fermions with orbital magnetization

Steven H. Simon, Ady Stern, and Bertrand I. Halperin

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11114(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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$p$ - and $n$ -type cubic GaN epilayers on GaAs

D. J. As, D. Schikora, A. Greiner, M. Lübbers, J. Mimkes, and K. Lischka

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11118(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Effects of contact metals on electroluminescence from embedded nanosize-Si-particle films

G. G. Qin, A. P. Li, and Y. X. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11122(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Optical transitions in $β$ -Fe ${Si}_{2}$ films

Lianwei Wang, M. Östling, Kai Yang, Linhong Qin, Chenglu Lin, Xiangdong Chen, Shichang Zou, Yuxiang Zheng, and Youhua Qian

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11126(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Thermally induced interface degradation in (111) Si/Si $O_{2}$ traced by electron spin resonance

A. Stesmans and V. V. Afanas'ev

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11129(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Grain boundary and surface energies of fcc metals

D. Udler and D. N. Seidman

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11133(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Monte Carlo determination of heteroepitaxial misfit structures

Jeff Baker and Per-Anker Lindgård

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11137(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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$π$ -bonded-trimer formation on the clean diamond C(111) surface

M. -H. Tsai, J. C. Jiang, and S. H. Lin

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11141(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Structure and contrast in scanning tunneling microscopy of oxides: FeO monolayer on Pt(111)

H. C. Galloway, P. Sautet, and M. Salmeron

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11145(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Mechanically stretched carbon nanotubes: Induction of chiral current

Yoshiyuki Miyamoto

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11149(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Magnetically split $sp$ -derived states in fcc-like Fe/Cu(001)

B. Gubanka, M. Donath, and F. Passek

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11153(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

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Magnetism of thin Fe films on Cu(100)

J. Hunter Dunn, D. Arvanitis, and N. Mårtensson

Phys. Rev. B 54, R11157(R) (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

ARTICLES

Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems

Polarization dependence of Born effective charge and dielectric constant in ${KNbO}_{3}$

Cheng-Zhang Wang, Rici Yu, and Henry Krakauer

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11161 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

MILESTONE

Efficient iterative schemes for ab initio total-energy calculations using a plane-wave basis set

G. Kresse and J. Furthmüller

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11169 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Self-consistent relativistic full-potential Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker total-energy method and applications

S. Bei der Kellen and A. J. Freeman

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11187 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Estimates of electronic interaction parameters for LaM $O_{3}$ compounds (M=Ti–Ni) from ab initio approaches

Priya Mahadevan, N. Shanthi, and D. D. Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11199 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Spin- and charge-rotation invariant approach to the Hubbard model

J. J. Vicente Alvarez, C. A. Balseiro, and H. A. Ceccatto

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11207 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Differences between random-potential and random-magnetic-field localization in quasi-one-dimensional systems

W. L. Chan, X. R. Wang, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11213 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Phase-conjugated signal induced and enhanced by weak localization of excitonic polaritons

Eiichi Hanamura

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11219 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

ac-conductivity measurements on ${La}_{2}$ ${NiO}_{4 + δ}$

H. Jhans, D. Kim, R. J. Rasmussen, and J. M. Honig

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11224 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Electrons, pseudoparticles, and quasiparticles in the one-dimensional many-electron problem

J. M. P. Carmelo and A. H. Castro Neto

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11230 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Large omnidirectional band gaps in metallodielectric photonic crystals

Shanhui Fan, Pierre R. Villeneuve, and J. D. Joannopoulos

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11245 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Electron scattering by a cut-off atomic potential: Application to electron properties in atomic liquids

V. M. Atrazhev and I. V. Timoshkin

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11252 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Electronic phase transitions in the spin-1/2 Falicov-Kimball model

Pavol Farkašovský

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11261 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Properties of the layered ${BaCo}_{1 - x}$ ${Ni}_{x}$ $S_{2}$ alloy system

L. S. Martinson, J. W. Schweitzer, and N. C. Baenziger

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11265 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Ab initio optical conductivity in LaM $O_{3}$ (M=Ti–Cu)

S. Bouarab, A. Vega, and M. A. Khan

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11271 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Semiconductors I: bulk

Shallow electron centers in silver halides

M. T. Bennebroek, A. Arnold, O. G. Poluektov, P. G. Baranov, and J. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11276 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Nature of the bulk defects in GaAs through high-temperature quenching studies

C. V. Reddy, S. Fung, and C. D. Beling

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11290 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Single-site approximation for the s-f model in ferromagnetic semiconductors

Masao Takahashi and Kazuhiro Mitsui

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11298 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Isotopic effects on the lattice constant in compound semiconductors by perturbation theory: An ab initio calculation

Alberto Debernardi and Manuel Cardona

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11305 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Ultrafast kinetics of evolution of optical phonons in a photoinjected highly excited plasma in semiconductors

Antonio C. S. Algarte, Aurea R. Vasconcellos, and Roberto Luzzi

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11311 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Hall factor in strained p-type doped ${Si}_{1 - x}$ ${Ge}_{x}$ alloy

Y. Fu, K. B. Joelsson, K. J. Grahn, W.-X. Ni, G. V. Hansson, and M. Willander

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11317 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Al-H and Al-D complexes in Si: A uniaxial-stress study of the hydrogen vibrational modes

Michael Stavola, Y. Michael Cheng, and Gordon Davies

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11322 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics

Origin of buckling-dimer-row formation of Si(001) surfaces

T. Hoshino, M. Hata, S. Oikawa, M. Tsuda, and I. Ohdomari

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11331 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Evidence for three surface components in the 3d core-level photoemission spectra of Ge(100)-(2×1) surface

A. Goldoni, S. Modesti, V. R. Dhanak, M. Sancrotti, and A. Santoni

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11340 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Carrier relaxation and electronic structure in InAs self-assembled quantum dots

K. H. Schmidt, G. Medeiros-Ribeiro, M. Oestreich, P. M. Petroff, and G. H. Döhler

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11346 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Self-consistent density of states for a single- and double-quantum-well structure in a parallel magnetic field

Godfrey Gumbs

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11354 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Magneto-optical experiments on GaAs/ ${In}_{x}$ ${Ga}_{1 - x}$ As/ ${Al}_{y}$ ${Ga}_{1 - y}$ As modulation-doped single quantum wells

F. Iikawa, M. L. F. Abbade, J. A. Brum, A. A. Bernussi, R. G. Pereira, and G. Borghs

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11360 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Nature of one-dimensional excitons in polysilanes

T. Hasegawa, Y. Iwasa, T. Koda, H. Kishida, Y. Tokura, S. Wada, H. Tashiro, H. Tachibana, and M. Matsumoto

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11365 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Quasi-two-dimensional electron-hole plasma in a quantum well: Hartree, exchange, and correlation energies

O. Betbeder-Matibet and M. Combescot

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11375 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Systematics of properties of the electron gas in deep-etched quantum wires

J. Martorell and D. W. L. Sprung

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11386 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Magnetoexcitons and correlated electrons in quantum dots in a magnetic field

Pawel Hawrylak, Arkadiusz Wojs, and José A. Brum

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11397 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Classical chaos and ballistic transport in a mesoscopic channel

G. A. Luna-Acosta, A. A. Krokhin, M. A. Rodríguez, and P. H. Hernández-Tejeda

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11410 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Pseudopotential-based multiband k⋅p method for ∼250 000-atom nanostructure systems

Lin-Wang Wang and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11417 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Dynamical response of double parabolically graded quantum wells

L. Wendler and T. Kraft

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11436 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Plasmon dispersion in strongly correlated superlattices

Dexin Lu, K. I. Golden, G. Kalman, P. Wyns, L. Miao, and X-L. Shi

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11457 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Effects of nonlocal response and level quantization on electronic excitations of a bimetallic jellium film in an ${Al}_{x}$ ${Ga}_{1 - x}$ As heterostructure

E. L. Yuh, E. G. Gwinn, P. R. Pinsukanjana, W. L. Schaich, K. L. Campman, P. F. Hopkins, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11467 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Conductance fluctuations in a double-barrier resonant-tunneling structure with three-dimensional electrodes

Lamya Ghenim, D. L. Sivco, A. Y. Cho, and G. Hill

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11479 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Signal propagation in electron waveguides: Transmission-line analogies

Jan-Olof J. Wesström

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11484 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

First-order resonant Raman scattering under an electric field

A. García-Cristóbal, M. Kuball, M. Cardona, and A. Cantarero

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11492 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Phonons in semiconductor planar microcavities: A Raman scattering study

A. Fainstein and B. Jusserand

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11505 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Theory of Raman spectra of heavily doped semiconductor multiple quantum wells

Yia-Chung Chang and Huade Yao

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11517 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Carrier relaxation and thermal activation of localized excitons in self-organized InAs multilayers grown on GaAs substrates

Z. Y. Xu, Z. D. Lu, X. P. Yang, Z. L. Yuan, B. Z. Zheng, J. Z. Xu, W. K. Ge, Y. Wang, J. Wang, and L. L. Chang

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11528 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Rapid carrier relaxation in self-assembled ${In}_{x}$ ${Ga}_{1 - x}$ As/GaAs quantum dots

B. Ohnesorge, M. Albrecht, J. Oshinowo, A. Forchel, and Y. Arakawa

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11532 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Numerically stable Hermitian secular equation for the envelope-function approximation for superlattices

Frank Szmulowicz

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11539 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

State filling and time-resolved photoluminescence of excited states in ${In}_{x}$ ${Ga}_{1 - x}$ As/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots

S. Raymond, S. Fafard, P. J. Poole, A. Wojs, P. Hawrylak, S. Charbonneau, D. Leonard, R. Leon, P. M. Petroff, and J. L. Merz

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11548 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Spontaneous interlayer coherence in double-layer quantum Hall systems: Symmetry-breaking interactions, in-plane fields, and phase solitons

Kun Yang, K. Moon, Lotfi Belkhir, H. Mori, S. M. Girvin, A. H. MacDonald, L. Zheng, and D. Yoshioka

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11644 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Mössbauer study of the magnetic character and ordering process of the cubic γ- ${FeSi}_{2}$ phase obtained by Fe implantation into a Si(100) matrix

R. L. Maltez, L. Amaral, M. Behar, A. Vantomme, G. Langouche, and X. W. Lin

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11659 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Ultrafast ellipsometry of coherent processes and exciton-exciton interactions in quantum wells at negative delays

J. A. Bolger, A. E. Paul, and Arthur L. Smirl

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11666 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Electronic effects in scanning tunneling microscopy of graphite: A Green’s-function calculation based on the tight-binding model

B. A. McKinnon and T. C. Choy

Phys. Rev. B 54, 11777 (1996) - Published 15 October, 1996