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

Role of spin-orbit coupling in the metal-insulator transition in two-dimensional systems Guang-Hong Chen, M. E. Raikh, and Yong-Shi Wu pp. R10539-R10543 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

Hole effective masses in 4H SiC N. T. Son, P. N. Hai, W. M. Chen, C. Hallin, B. Monemar, and E. Janzén pp. R10544-R10546 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

Acoustic-phonon Raman scattering in InAs/InP self-assembled quantum dots J. R. Huntzinger, J. Groenen, M. Cazayous, A. Mlayah, N. Bertru, C. Paranthoen, O. Dehaese, H. Carrère, E. Bedel, and G. Armelles pp. R10547-R10550 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Island size scaling for submonolayer growth of InAs on GaAs(001)-(2×4): Strain and surface reconstruction effects G. R. Bell, T. J. Krzyzewski, P. B. Joyce, and T. S. Jones pp. R10551-R10554 [View PDF (368 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Instantaneous Rayleigh scattering from excitons localized in monolayer islands W. Langbein, K. Leosson, J. R. Jensen, J. M. Hvam, and R. Zimmermann pp. R10555-R10558 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Features of level broadening in a ring-stub system P. Singha Deo and M. V. Moskalets pp. R10559-R10562 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Midbandgap electro-optic detection of Bloch oscillations M. Först, G. Segschneider, T. Dekorsy, H. Kurz, and K. Köhler pp. R10563-R10566 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spin symmetry breaking in bilayer quantum Hall systems Eugene Demler, Eugene H. Kim, and S. Das Sarma pp. R10567-R10570 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Large selective magneto-optic response from magnetic semiconducting layered structures Yu. A. Uspenskii and B. N. Harmon pp. R10571-R10574 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Excitonic lasing in semiconductor quantum wires L. Sirigu, D. Y. Oberli, L. Degiorgi, A. Rudra, and E. Kapon pp. R10575-R10578 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Phonon-assisted biexciton generation in a single quantum dot F. Findeis, A. Zrenner, G. Böhm, and G. Abstreiter pp. R10579-R10582 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Ultrafast near-field spectroscopy of quasi-one-dimensional transport in a single quantum wire Valentina Emiliani, Tobias Guenther, Christoph Lienau, Richard Nötzel, and Klaus H. Ploog pp. R10583-R10586 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Decay channels and appearance sizes of doubly anionic gold and silver clusters Constantine Yannouleas and Uzi Landman pp. R10587-R10589 [View PDF (51 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

(Meta)stable reconstructions of the diamond (111) surface: Interplay between diamond and graphitelike bonding A. V. Petukhov, D. Passerone, F. Ercolessi, E. Tosatti, and A. Fasolino pp. R10590-R10593 [View PDF (824 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Phase diagram of the lattice Calogero-Sutherland model E. Le Goff, L. Barbier, and B. Salanon pp. R10594-R10597 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Fluctuations and scaling in aggregation phenomena C. Ratsch, M. F. Gyure, S. Chen, M. Kang, and D. D. Vvedensky pp. R10598-R10601 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Uniform, self-organized, seven-step height Pb/Si(111)-(7×7) islands at low temperatures K. Budde, E. Abram, V. Yeh, and M. C. Tringides pp. R10602-R10605 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Chemical doping of individual semiconducting carbon-nanotube ropes Marc Bockrath, J. Hone, A. Zettl, Paul L. McEuen, Andrew G. Rinzler, and Richard E. Smalley pp. R10606-R10608 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Prediction of the new spinel phase of Ti3N4 and SiTi2N4 and the metal-insulator transition W. Y. Ching, Shang-Di Mo, Lizhi Ouyang, Isao Tanaka, and Masato Yoshiya pp. 10609-10614 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Specific heat for ionic tunneling in a metallic environment João V. Ferreira and Valter L. Líbero pp. 10615-10621 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure of zinc-blende MnTe investigated by photoemission and inverse-photoemission spectroscopies Hitoshi Sato, Masaki Taniguchi, Kojiro Mimura, Shinya Senba, Hirofumi Namatame, and Yoshifumi Ueda pp. 10622-10627 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Product Jahn-Teller systems: The {T1⊗T2}⊗(e+t2) case A. Ceulemans and Q. C. Qiu pp. 10628-10639 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Plastic sliding of charge density waves: X-ray space resolved-studies versus theory of current conversion S. Brazovskii, N. Kirova, H. Requardt, F. Ya. Nad, P. Monceau, R. Currat, J. E. Lorenzo, G. Grübel, and Ch. Vettier pp. 10640-10650 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-phonon effects in graphene and armchair (10,10) single-wall carbon nanotubes L. M. Woods and G. D. Mahan pp. 10651-10663 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear optical properties of perovskite YMnO3 studied by real-space recursion method Xiangang Wan, Jinming Dong, Meichun Qian, and Weiyi Zhang pp. 10664-10669 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoproduction and relaxation of long-lived active charges in Ca3Mn2Ge3O12 garnet revealed through optical absorption V. V. Eremenko, S. L. Gnatchenko, I. S. Kachur, V. G. Piryatinskaya, A. M. Ratner, and V. V. Shapiro pp. 10670-10676 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Positron lifetime measurements and electronic structure of CeNiSn A. Bharathi, Y. Hariharan, and C. S. Sundar pp. 10677-10681 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoemission study of AgTO2 delafossites (T=Fe, Co, Ni) J.-S. Kang, J. H. Kwak, Y. J. Shin, S. W. Han, K. H. Kim, and B. I. Min pp. 10682-10687 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Non-phase-matched optical third-harmonic generation in noncentrosymmetric media: Cascaded second-order contributions for the calibration of third-order nonlinearities Christian Bosshard, Ulrich Gubler, Phil Kaatz, Witold Mazerant, and Urs Meier pp. 10688-10701 [View PDF (771 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical third-harmonic generation of fused silica in gas atmosphere: Absolute value of the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility χ(3) Ulrich Gubler and Christian Bosshard pp. 10702-10710 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lowest-energy site for hydrogen in diamond D. Saada, Joan Adler, and R. Kalish pp. 10711-10715 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Models exhibiting order by projection Brijesh Kumar and B. Sriram Shastry pp. 10716-10724 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact duality and dual Monte Carlo simulation for the bosonic Hubbard model F. Hébert, G. G. Batrouni, and H. Mabilat pp. 10725-10737 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical spectral weights and the ferromagnetic transition temperature of colossal-magnetoresistance manganites: Relevance of double exchange to real materials A. Chattopadhyay, A. J. Millis, and S. Das Sarma pp. 10738-10749 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Symmetry analysis of the localized modes associated with substitutional and interstitial defects in a two-dimensional triangular photonic crystal Vladimir Kuzmiak and Alexei A. Maradudin pp. 10750-10761 [View PDF (706 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-dimensional dodecagonal and decagonal quasiperiodic photonic crystals in the microwave region Chongjun Jin, Bingying Cheng, Baoyuan Man, Zhaolin Li, and Daozhong Zhang pp. 10762-10767 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

•	Theory of one-dimensional solitons, polarons, and multipolarons: An alternative formulation Kihong Kim and Dong-Hun Lee pp. 10768-10776 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electric-field effects on the competition between polarons and bipolarons in conjugated polymers Geraldo Magela e Silva pp. 10777-10781 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of electronic and optical properties of bulk AlSb and InAs and InAs/AlSb superlattices G. Theodorou and G. Tsegas pp. 10782-10791 [View PDF (307 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-kinetic study of femtosecond pump-and-probe spectra of bulk GaAs K. Hannewald, S. Glutsch, and F. Bechstedt pp. 10792-10802 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mobile iodine dopants in organic semiconductors Jan Hendrik Schön, Christian Kloc, and Bertram Batlogg pp. 10803-10806 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Localized triplet excitations and the effect of photo-oxidation in ladder-type poly(p-phenylene) and oligo(p-phenylene) E. J. List, J. Partee, J. Shinar, U. Scherf, K. Müllen, E. Zojer, K. Petritsch, G. Leising, and W. Graupner pp. 10807-10814 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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

•	Decay rate and renormalized frequency shift of superradiant excitons: Crossover from two-dimensional to three-dimensional crystals Yueh-Nan Chen and Der-San Chuu pp. 10815-10819 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

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

•	Surface segregation and interface stability of AlN/GaN, GaN/InN, and AlN/InN {0001} epitaxial systems P. Bogusławski, Krzysztof Rapcewicz, and J. J. Bernholc pp. 10820-10826 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strained Ge overlayer on a Si(001)-(2×1) surface S.-J. Kahng, Y. H. Ha, D. W. Moon, and Y. Kuk pp. 10827-10831 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Assessment of effective-medium theories in the analysis of nucleation and microscopic surface roughness evolution for semiconductor thin films H. Fujiwara, Joohyun Koh, P. I. Rovira, and R. W. Collins pp. 10832-10844 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fermi surface of Si(111)7×7 R. Losio, K. N. Altmann, and F. J. Himpsel pp. 10845-10853 [View PDF (349 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Center-of-mass properties of the exciton in quantum wells A. Siarkos, E. Runge, and R. Zimmermann pp. 10854-10867 [View PDF (713 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Long-range Coulomb interaction in arrays of self-assembled quantum dots A. I. Yakimov, A. V. Dvurechenskii, V. V. Kirienko, Yu. I. Yakovlev, A. I. Nikiforov, and C. J. Adkins pp. 10868-10876 [View PDF (253 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin dynamics of localized excitons in semiconductor quantum wells in an applied magnetic field M. Z. Maialle pp. 10877-10882 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantized conductance, circuit topology, and flux quantization Wim Magnus and Wim Schoenmaker pp. 10883-10889 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of quantum noise on Coulomb blockade in normal tunnel junctions at high voltages J. S. Penttilä, Ü. Parts, P. J. Hakonen, M. A. Paalanen, and E. B. Sonin pp. 10890-10897 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunneling through X-valley-related impurity states in GaAs/AlAs resonant-tunneling diodes S. A. Vitusevich, A. Förster, K. M. Indlekofer, H. Lüth, A. E. Belyaev, B. A. Glavin, and R. V. Konakova pp. 10898-10904 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microwave resonance and weak pinning in two-dimensional hole systems at high magnetic fields C.-C. Li, J. Yoon, L. W. Engel, D. Shahar, D. C. Tsui, and M. Shayegan pp. 10905-10909 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tuning the insulator–quantum Hall liquid transitions in a two-dimensional electron gas using self-assembled InAs G. H. Kim, J. T. Nicholls, S. I. Khondaker, I. Farrer, and D. A. Ritchie pp. 10910-10916 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gauge invariance and the critical properties of quantum Hall plateau transitions André LeClair pp. 10917-10928 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulomb interactions and delocalization in quantum Hall constrictions Leonid P. Pryadko, Efrat Shimshoni, and Assa Auerbach pp. 10929-10940 [View PDF (278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Response of a Fermi gas in a disordered system to a phonon flux D. Poplavsky, B. Danilchenko, and H. Kostial pp. 10941-10949 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ballistic electron transport in stubbed quantum waveguides: Experiment and theory P. Debray, O. E. Raichev, P. Vasilopoulos, M. Rahman, R. Perrin, and W. C. Mitchell pp. 10950-10958 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Presentation and experimental validation of a single-band, constant-potential model for self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots M. Califano and P. Harrison pp. 10959-10965 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interfacial reaction and Fermi level movement induced by sequentially deposited metals on GaN: Au/Ni/GaN Min-Ho Kim, Sung-Nam Lee, Chul Huh, Serng Yerl Park, Jeong Yeul Han, Jae Myung Seo, and Seong-Ju Park pp. 10966-10971 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electroabsorption spectroscopy of intersubband transitions in multiple-quantum-well superlattices J. Oiknine-Schlesinger, M. Gerling, D. Gershoni, E. Ehrenfreund, and D. Ritter pp. 10972-10977 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Band structure and optical properties of sinusoidal superlattices: ZnSe1-xTex G. Yang, S. Lee, and J. K. Furdyna pp. 10978-10984 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Competition between radiative decay and energy relaxation of carriers in disordered InxGa1-xAs/GaAs quantum wells M. Grassi Alessi, F. Fragano, A. Patanè, M. Capizzi, E. Runge, and R. Zimmermann pp. 10985-10993 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measured and calculated radiative lifetime and optical absorption of InxGa1-xN/GaN quantum structures E. Berkowicz, D. Gershoni, G. Bahir, E. Lakin, D. Shilo, E. Zolotoyabko, A. C. Abare, S. P. Denbaars, and L. A. Coldren pp. 10994-11008 [View PDF (766 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Carrier-carrier correlations in an optically excited single semiconductor quantum dot E. Dekel, D. Gershoni, E. Ehrenfreund, J. M. Garcia, and P. M. Petroff pp. 11009-11020 [View PDF (1390 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy structure and fluorescence of Eu2+ in ZnS:Eu nanoparticles Wei Chen, Jan-Olle Malm, Valery Zwiller, Yining Huang, Shuman Liu, Reine Wallenberg, Jan-Olov Bovin, and Lars Samuelson pp. 11021-11024 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Periodic density-functional study on oxidation of diamond (100) surfaces Hiroyuki Tamura, Hui Zhou, Kiyoshi Sugisako, Yasuto Yokoi, Seiichi Takami, Momoji Kubo, Kazuo Teraishi, Akira Miyamoto, Akira Imamura, Mikka N.-Gamo, and Toshihiro Ando pp. 11025-11033 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio cluster calculations of hydrogenated GaAs(001) surfaces Q. Fu, L. Li, and R. F. Hicks pp. 11034-11040 [View PDF (264 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measuring minority-carrier diffusion length using a Kelvin probe force microscope R. Shikler, N. Fried, T. Meoded, and Y. Rosenwaks pp. 11041-11046 [View PDF (468 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Emission of acoustic phonons due to spin-flip electron transitions in nonsymmetric quantum wells F. T. Vasko and V. V. Mitin pp. 11047-11050 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron tunneling rate in quantum dots under a uniform electric field David M.-T. Kuo and Yia-Chung Chang pp. 11051-11056 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Carrier transport in nanoporous TiO2 films R. Könenkamp pp. 11057-11064 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-spin quantum-beat dephasing in quantum wells as a probe of the hole band structure X. Marie, T. Amand, J. Barrau, P. Renucci, P. Lejeune, and V. K. Kalevich pp. 11065-11077 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Symmetry breaking and current patterns due to a weak imperfection Er’el Granot pp. 11078-11082 [View PDF (596 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intersubband electron transitions due to electron-electron interactions in quantum-well structures K. Kempa, P. Bakshi, J. Engelbrecht, and Y. Zhou pp. 11083-11087 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

•	Growth and defect formation of single-wall carbon nanotubes Yueyuan Xia, Yuchen Ma, Yuelin Xing, Yuguang Mu, Chunyu Tan, and Liangmo Mei pp. 11088-11092 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum size effects in CuO nanoparticles Kavita Borgohain, J. B. Singh, M. V. Rama Rao, T. Shripathi, and Shailaja Mahamuni pp. 11093-11096 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Yb adsorption on the (211) faces of molybdenum and tantalum I. Ubogyi, S. Stepanovskyi, and J. Kołaczkiewicz pp. 11097-11104 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleation and growth of supported clusters at defect sites: Pd/MgO(001) G. Haas, A. Menck, H. Brune, J. V. Barth, J. A. Venables, and K. Kern pp. 11105-11108 [View PDF (241 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrical conductivity and thin-film growth dynamics G. Palasantzas, Y.-P. Zhao, G.-C. Wang, T.-M. Lu, J. Barnas, and J. Th. De Hosson pp. 11109-11117 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scanning tunneling spectroscopy on π-conjugated phenyl-based oligomers: A simple physical model A. I. Onipko, K.-F. Berggren, Yu. O. Klymenko, L. I. Malysheva, J. J. Rosink, L. J. Geerligs, E. van der Drift, and S. Radelaar pp. 11118-11124 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Flat photonic bands in guided modes of textured metallic microcavities M. G. Salt and W. L. Barnes pp. 11125-11135 [View PDF (995 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Second harmonic generation in hydrogenated amorphous silicon S. Alexandrova, P. Danesh, and I. A. Maslyanitsyn pp. 11136-11138 [View PDF (38 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-consistent model for second-harmonic near-field microscopy Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi and Valeri Z. Lozovski pp. 11139-11150 [View PDF (943 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Separation of interactions by noncontact force microscopy M. Guggisberg, M. Bammerlin, Ch. Loppacher, O. Pfeiffer, A. Abdurixit, V. Barwich, R. Bennewitz, A. Baratoff, E. Meyer, and H.-J. Güntherodt pp. 11151-11155 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure of carbon nanotube ropes A. A. Maarouf, C. L. Kane, and E. J. Mele pp. 11156-11165 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Uncertainty, topography, and work function” Tomasz Durakiewicz pp. 11166-11167 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]