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Experimental and theoretical studies of the electronic structure of TiS2 Z. Y. Wu, F. Lemoigno, P. Gressier, G. Ouvrard, P. Moreau, J. Rouxel, and C. R. Natoli pp. R11009-R11013 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Direct calculation of the two-photon line strength of a Γ1g-Γ1g transition in octahedral symmetry Michael Chua and Peter A. Tanner pp. R11014-R11017 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Competition between the Mott transition and Anderson localization in one-dimensional disordered interacting electron systems Satoshi Fujimoto and Norio Kawakami pp. R11018-R11021 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Bandwidth dependence of insulator-metal transitions in perovskite cobalt oxides S. Yamaguchi, Y. Okimoto, and Y. Tokura pp. R11022-R11025 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Mott transition in degenerate Hubbard models: Application to doped fullerenes Olle Gunnarsson, Erik Koch, and Richard M. Martin pp. R11026-R11029 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Optical absorption of CuGeO3 M. Bassi, P. Camagni, R. Rolli, G. Samoggia, F. Parmigiani, G. Dhalenne, and A. Revcolevschi pp. R11030-R11033 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Optical conductivity of strongly correlated electron systems R. Eder, P. Wróbel, and Y. Ohta pp. R11034-R11037 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Titanium-hydrogen defects in silicon W. Jost and J. Weber pp. R11038-R11041 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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 pp. R11042-R11045 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nondiffusive excitonic transport in GaAs and the effects of momentum scattering A. C. Schaefer, J. Erland, and D. G. Steel pp. R11046-R11049 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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 pp. R11050-R11053 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Reconstruction transitions during molecular-beam epitaxy on GaAs(111)B vicinal surfaces studied by scanning electron microscopy Hong-Wen Ren and Tatau Nishinaga pp. R11054-R11057 [View PDF (1003 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Step dynamics and equilibrium structure of monoatomic steps on Si(100)-2×1 J. R. Sánchez and C. M. Aldao pp. R11058-R11061 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Structure and properties of clean and In-covered Ge(103) surfaces L. Seehoter, G. Falkenberg, and R. L. Johnson pp. R11062-R11065 [View PDF (426 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface unwetting during growth of Ag on Si(001) J. C. Glueckstein, M. M. Evans, and J. Nogami pp. R11066-R11069 [View PDF (470 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Topological characterization of delocalization in a spin-orbit coupling system D. N. Sheng and Z. Y. Weng pp. R11070-R11073 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Zero-dimensional excitons in (Zn,Cd)Se quantum structures M. Lowisch, M. Rabe, B. Stegemann, F. Henneberger, M. Grundmann, V. Türck, and D. Bimberg pp. R11074-R11077 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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 pp. R11078-R11081 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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 pp. R11082-R11085 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Observation of a D- triplet transition in GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs multiple quantum wells S. R. Ryu, Z. X. Jiang, W. J. Li, B. D. McCombe, and W. Schaff pp. R11086-R11089 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Frequency-dependent admittance of a two-dimensional quantum wire Jian Wang and Hong Guo pp. R11090-R11093 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Thermopower of quantum nanowires in a magnetic field E. N. Bogachek, A. G. Scherbakov, and Uzi Landman pp. R11094-R11097 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Folded and confined one-dimensional plasmons in modulated wires Florent Perez, Bernard Jusserand, Claus Dahl, Marcel Filoche, Laurence Ferlazzo-Manin, and Bernard Etienne pp. R11098-R11101 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Pressure and alloy-composition dependence of Al/Ga1-xAlxAs (100) Schottky barriers J. Bardi, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi pp. R11102-R11105 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Tunneling spectroscopy of hole plasmons in a valence-band quantum well B. R. Neves, T. J. Foster, L. Eaves, P. C. Main, M. Henini, D. J. Fisher, M. L. Lerch, A. D. Martin, and C. Zhang pp. R11106-R11109 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear σ model for partially polarized quantum Hall states T. H. Hansson, A. Karlhede, and J. M. Leinaas pp. R11110-R11113 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Composite fermions with orbital magnetization Steven H. Simon, Ady Stern, and Bertrand I. Halperin pp. R11114-R11117 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

p- and n-type cubic GaN epilayers on GaAs D. J. As, D. Schikora, A. Greiner, M. Lübbers, J. Mimkes, and K. Lischka pp. R11118-R11121 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Effects of contact metals on electroluminescence from embedded nanosize-Si-particle films G. G. Qin, A. P. Li, and Y. X. Zhang pp. R11122-R11125 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Optical transitions in β-FeSi2 films Lianwei Wang, M. Östling, Kai Yang, Linhong Qin, Chenglu Lin, Xiangdong Chen, Shichang Zou, Yuxiang Zheng, and Youhua Qian pp. R11126-R11128 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Thermally induced interface degradation in (111) Si/SiO2 traced by electron spin resonance A. Stesmans and V. V. Afanas'ev pp. R11129-R11132 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Grain boundary and surface energies of fcc metals D. Udler and D. N. Seidman pp. R11133-R11136 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Monte Carlo determination of heteroepitaxial misfit structures Jeff Baker and Per-Anker Lindgård pp. R11137-R11140 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

π-bonded-trimer formation on the clean diamond C(111) surface M. -H. Tsai, J. C. Jiang, and S. H. Lin pp. R11141-R11144 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Structure and contrast in scanning tunneling microscopy of oxides: FeO monolayer on Pt(111) H. C. Galloway, P. Sautet, and M. Salmeron pp. R11145-R11148 [View PDF (289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Mechanically stretched carbon nanotubes: Induction of chiral current Yoshiyuki Miyamoto pp. R11149-R11152 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetically split sp-derived states in fcc-like Fe/Cu(001) B. Gubanka, M. Donath, and F. Passek pp. R11153-R11156 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Magnetism of thin Fe films on Cu(100) J. Hunter Dunn, D. Arvanitis, and N. Mårtensson pp. R11157-R11160 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Polarization dependence of Born effective charge and dielectric constant in KNbO3 Cheng-Zhang Wang, Rici Yu, and Henry Krakauer pp. 11161-11168 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Efficient iterative schemes for ab initio total-energy calculations using a plane-wave basis set G. Kresse and J. Furthmüller pp. 11169-11186 [View PDF (274 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-consistent relativistic full-potential Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker total-energy method and applications S. Bei der Kellen and A. J. Freeman pp. 11187-11198 [View PDF (274 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Estimates of electronic interaction parameters for LaMO3 compounds (M=Ti–Ni) from ab initio approaches Priya Mahadevan, N. Shanthi, and D. D. Sarma pp. 11199-11206 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin- and charge-rotation invariant approach to the Hubbard model J. J. Vicente Alvarez, C. A. Balseiro, and H. A. Ceccatto pp. 11207-11212 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Differences between random-potential and random-magnetic-field localization in quasi-one-dimensional systems W. L. Chan, X. R. Wang, and X. C. Xie pp. 11213-11218 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase-conjugated signal induced and enhanced by weak localization of excitonic polaritons Eiichi Hanamura pp. 11219-11223 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ac-conductivity measurements on La2NiO4+δ H. Jhans, D. Kim, R. J. Rasmussen, and J. M. Honig pp. 11224-11229 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrons, pseudoparticles, and quasiparticles in the one-dimensional many-electron problem J. M. Carmelo and A. H. Castro Neto pp. 11230-11244 [View PDF (280 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Large omnidirectional band gaps in metallodielectric photonic crystals Shanhui Fan, Pierre R. Villeneuve, and J. D. Joannopoulos pp. 11245-11251 [View PDF (1708 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron scattering by a cut-off atomic potential: Application to electron properties in atomic liquids V. M. Atrazhev and I. V. Timoshkin pp. 11252-11260 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic phase transitions in the spin-1/2 Falicov-Kimball model Pavol Farkašovský pp. 11261-11264 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Properties of the layered BaCo1-xNixS2 alloy system L. S. Martinson, J. W. Schweitzer, and N. C. Baenziger pp. 11265-11270 [View PDF (636 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio optical conductivity in LaMO3 (M=Ti–Cu) S. Bouarab, A. Vega, and M. A. Khan pp. 11271-11275 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	Shallow electron centers in silver halides M. T. Bennebroek, A. Arnold, O. G. Poluektov, P. G. Baranov, and J. Schmidt pp. 11276-11289 [View PDF (248 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nature of the bulk defects in GaAs through high-temperature quenching studies C. V. Reddy, S. Fung, and C. D. Beling pp. 11290-11297 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single-site approximation for the s-f model in ferromagnetic semiconductors Masao Takahashi and Kazuhiro Mitsui pp. 11298-11304 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isotopic effects on the lattice constant in compound semiconductors by perturbation theory: An ab initio calculation Alberto Debernardi and Manuel Cardona pp. 11305-11310 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ultrafast kinetics of evolution of optical phonons in a photoinjected highly excited plasma in semiconductors Antonio C. Algarte, Aurea R. Vasconcellos, and Roberto Luzzi pp. 11311-11316 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hall factor in strained p-type doped Si1-xGex alloy Y. Fu, K. B. Joelsson, K. J. Grahn, W.-X. Ni, G. V. Hansson, and M. Willander pp. 11317-11321 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 pp. 11322-11330 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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 pp. 11331-11339 [View PDF (303 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 pp. 11340-11345 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 pp. 11346-11353 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-consistent density of states for a single- and double-quantum-well structure in a parallel magnetic field Godfrey Gumbs pp. 11354-11359 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magneto-optical experiments on GaAs/InxGa1-xAs/AlyGa1-yAs modulation-doped single quantum wells F. Iikawa, M. L. Abbade, J. A. Brum, A. A. Bernussi, R. G. Pereira, and G. Borghs pp. 11360-11364 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 pp. 11365-11374 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasi-two-dimensional electron-hole plasma in a quantum well: Hartree, exchange, and correlation energies O. Betbeder-Matibet and M. Combescot pp. 11375-11385 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematics of properties of the electron gas in deep-etched quantum wires J. Martorell and D. W. Sprung pp. 11386-11396 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetoexcitons and correlated electrons in quantum dots in a magnetic field Pawel Hawrylak, Arkadiusz Wojs, and José A. Brum pp. 11397-11409 [View PDF (314 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical chaos and ballistic transport in a mesoscopic channel G. A. Luna-Acosta, A. A. Krokhin, M. A. Rodríguez, and P. H. Hernández-Tejeda pp. 11410-11416 [View PDF (302 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pseudopotential-based multiband k⋅p method for ∼250 000-atom nanostructure systems Lin-Wang Wang and Alex Zunger pp. 11417-11435 [View PDF (474 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical response of double parabolically graded quantum wells L. Wendler and T. Kraft pp. 11436-11456 [View PDF (514 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Plasmon dispersion in strongly correlated superlattices Dexin Lu, K. I. Golden, G. Kalman, P. Wyns, L. Miao, and X-L. Shi pp. 11457-11466 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Effects of nonlocal response and level quantization on electronic excitations of a bimetallic jellium film in an AlxGa1-xAs heterostructure E. L. Yuh, E. G. Gwinn, P. R. Pinsukanjana, W. L. Schaich, K. L. Campman, P. F. Hopkins, and A. C. Gossard pp. 11467-11478 [View PDF (597 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conductance fluctuations in a double-barrier resonant-tunneling structure with three-dimensional electrodes Lamya Ghenim, D. L. Sivco, A. Y. Cho, and G. Hill pp. 11479-11483 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Signal propagation in electron waveguides: Transmission-line analogies Jan-Olof J. Wesström pp. 11484-11491 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-order resonant Raman scattering under an electric field A. García-Cristóbal, M. Kuball, M. Cardona, and A. Cantarero pp. 11492-11504 [View PDF (320 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phonons in semiconductor planar microcavities: A Raman scattering study A. Fainstein and B. Jusserand pp. 11505-11516 [View PDF (269 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of Raman spectra of heavily doped semiconductor multiple quantum wells Yia-Chung Chang and Huade Yao pp. 11517-11527 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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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 pp. 11528-11531 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rapid carrier relaxation in self-assembled InxGa1-xAs/GaAs quantum dots B. Ohnesorge, M. Albrecht, J. Oshinowo, A. Forchel, and Y. Arakawa pp. 11532-11538 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerically stable Hermitian secular equation for the envelope-function approximation for superlattices Frank Szmulowicz pp. 11539-11547 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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State filling and time-resolved photoluminescence of excited states in InxGa1-xAs/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 pp. 11548-11554 [View PDF (792 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fabrication and physical properties of radio frequency sputtered Cd1-xMnxS thin films C. T. Tsai, S. H. Chen, D. S. Chuu, and W. C. Chou pp. 11555-11560 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiparticle lifetime in a two-dimensional electron system in the limit of low temperature and excitation energy D. Menashe and B. Laikhtman pp. 11561-11574 [View PDF (279 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective-mass theory for InAs/GaAs strained coupled quantum dots Shu-Shen Li, Jian-Bai Xia, Z. L. Yuan, Z. Y. Xu, Weikun Ge, Xiang Rong Wang, Y. Wang, J. Wang, and L. L. Chang pp. 11575-11581 [View PDF (738 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarized interacting exciton gas in quantum wells and bulk semiconductors J. Fernández-Rossier, C. Tejedor, L. Muñoz, and L. Viña pp. 11582-11591 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical calculation of the optical absorption in semiconductor quantum structures S. Glutsch, D. S. Chemla, and F. Bechstedt pp. 11592-11601 [View PDF (328 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conductance fluctuations near the ballistic-transport regime Yasuhiro Asano and Gerrit E. Bauer pp. 11602-11611 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Origin of conductance fluctuations in large circular quantum dots Karl-Fredrik Berggren, Zhen-Li Ji, and Tomas Lundberg pp. 11612-11621 [View PDF (6043 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single-impurity Anderson model out of equilibrium Noam Sivan and Ned S. Wingreen pp. 11622-11629 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical confirmation of universality of transmission microsymmetry relations in a four-probe quantum dot Ming Lei and Hong Guo pp. 11630-11637 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transport properties of ion-implanted and chemically doped polyaniline films A. N. Aleshin, N. B. Mironkov, A. V. Suvorov, J. A. Conklin, T. M. Su, and R. B. Kaner pp. 11638-11643 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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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 pp. 11644-11658 [View PDF (276 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mössbauer study of the magnetic character and ordering process of the cubic γ-FeSi2 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 pp. 11659-11665 [View PDF (290 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	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 pp. 11666-11671 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

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