physica status solidi (b)

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September 2011

Volume 248, Issue 9

Pages 1981–2204

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    3. Back Cover
    4. Issue Information
    5. Contents
    6. Recent and forthcoming publications in pss
    7. Dedication
    8. Review Article
    9. Feature Article
    10. Original Papers
    11. Information for authors
    1. Front Cover: Large-scale simulations in materials science (Phys. Status Solidi B 9/2011)

      David Drabold, Alex Demkov, James P. Lewis, José Ortega, Wolfgang Windl and Stuart Lindsay

      Article first published online: 25 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201190027

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      The front cover image of this issue shows the “Fireball” – an artistic ball and stick view (by Daniel G. Trabada) of the β-SiC(100) surface. The background alludes to the firstprinciples molecular-dynamics technique FIREBALL (see the Review Article by James P. Lewis et al. on pp. 1989–2007): The “fireball” orbitals used in this computational approach are obtained from atomic calculations in which the orbitals are confined within a given cut-off radius. The effect of this confinement is to increase the energy of the atoms, depicted here as microscopic “balls of fire”. The FIREBALL method is based on the Sankey–Niklewski approach, one of the outstanding advancements in electronic structure density-functional methods. Lewis et al. report on several improved theoretical developments and recent application to a variety of systems ranging from biomolecules to semiconductors. The review and 12 more articles in this issue compose the special section “Large-scale simulations in materials science”, dedicated to Otto F. Sankey (see pp. 1987–1988).

  2. Back Cover

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    6. Recent and forthcoming publications in pss
    7. Dedication
    8. Review Article
    9. Feature Article
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    1. Back Cover: Simulating the organic-molecule/metal interface TCNQ/Au(111) (Phys. Status Solidi B 9/2011)

      José I. Martínez, Enrique Abad, Fernando Flores and José Ortega

      Article first published online: 25 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201190028

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      The growing market of organic electronics relies on the use of organic conjugated molecules as components of multilayer devices, whose performance depends critically on the energy barriers that control the carrier transport between layers, and the electronic transport in a nanocontact between a single molecule and metal electrodes. As shown by José I. Martínez et al. (pp. 2044–2049), theoretical STM imaging arises as a powerful tool in this novel researching field, validating the obtained interfacial geometries compared with the experimental STM for the TCNQ/Au(111) self-assembled structure, as well as the complementary electronic structure analysis.

  3. Issue Information

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    2. Cover Picture
    3. Back Cover
    4. Issue Information
    5. Contents
    6. Recent and forthcoming publications in pss
    7. Dedication
    8. Review Article
    9. Feature Article
    10. Original Papers
    11. Information for authors
    1. Issue Information

      Article first published online: 25 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201190029

  4. Contents

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    5. Contents
    6. Recent and forthcoming publications in pss
    7. Dedication
    8. Review Article
    9. Feature Article
    10. Original Papers
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    1. Content (Phys. Status Solidi B 9/2011) (pages 1981–1984)

      Article first published online: 25 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201140832

  5. Recent and forthcoming publications in pss

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    5. Contents
    6. Recent and forthcoming publications in pss
    7. Dedication
    8. Review Article
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    1. Recent and forthcoming publications in pss (page 1985)

      Article first published online: 25 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201140833

  6. Dedication

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    6. Recent and forthcoming publications in pss
    7. Dedication
    8. Review Article
    9. Feature Article
    10. Original Papers
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    1. Large-scale simulations in materials science

      Dedication (pages 1987–1988)

      David Drabold, Alex Demkov, James P. Lewis, José Ortega, Wolfgang Windl and Stuart Lindsay

      Article first published online: 25 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201140121

  7. Review Article

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    8. Review Article
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    10. Original Papers
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    1. Large-scale simulations in materials science

      Advances and applications in the FIREBALLab initio tight-binding molecular-dynamics formalism (pages 1989–2007)

      James P. Lewis, Pavel Jelínek, José Ortega, Alexander A. Demkov, Daniel G. Trabada, Barry Haycock, Hao Wang, Gary Adams, John K. Tomfohr, Enrique Abad, Hong Wang and David A. Drabold

      Article first published online: 12 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147259

  8. Feature Article

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    7. Dedication
    8. Review Article
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    1. Large-scale simulations in materials science

      Semiclassical simulations in materials science (pages 2008–2014)

      Chen-Wei Jiang, Xiang Zhou, Zhibin Lin, Rui-Hua Xie, Fu-Li Li, Meng Gao and Roland E. Allen

      Article first published online: 22 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147141

    2. The microscopic response method: Theory of transport for systems with both topological and thermal disorder (pages 2015–2026)

      MingLiang Zhang and D. A. Drabold

      Article first published online: 30 MAY 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147036

  9. Original Papers

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    6. Recent and forthcoming publications in pss
    7. Dedication
    8. Review Article
    9. Feature Article
    10. Original Papers
    11. Information for authors

    1. Large-scale simulations in materials science

      Rational designs of crystal solid-solution materials for lithium-ion batteries (pages 2027–2031)

      Ting Luo, Caixia Zhang, Zhiyong Zhang, Yingdan Zhu and Jun Li

      Article first published online: 21 JUL 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147085

    2. Magnetic coupling in dilute magnetic semiconductors: A new perspective (pages 2032–2036)

      Antonis N. Andriotis and Madhu Menon

      Article first published online: 24 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147120

    3. The reactive sites in faceted anatase nanoparticles (pages 2037–2043)

      Hong Wang and James P. Lewis

      Article first published online: 24 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147134

    4. Simulating the organic-molecule/metal interface TCNQ/Au(111) (pages 2044–2049)

      José I. Martínez, Enrique Abad, Fernando Flores and José Ortega

      Article first published online: 30 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147136

    5. Energy landscape of silicon tetra-interstitials using an optimized classical potential (pages 2050–2055)

      Yaojun A. Du, Thomas J. Lenosky, Richard G. Hennig, Stefan Goedecker and John W. Wilkins

      Article first published online: 22 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147137

    6. Impurity states on the honeycomb and the triangular lattices using the Green's function method (pages 2056–2063)

      Mohammad Sherafati and Sashi Satpathy

      Article first published online: 8 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147142

    7. On the measurement of the Casimir torque (pages 2064–2071)

      Xiang Chen and John C. H. Spence

      Article first published online: 8 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147150

    8. Failure of potassium dimer formation on the β-SiC(100)-c(4 × 2) surface (pages 2072–2075)

      Barry Haycock, José Ortega and James P. Lewis

      Article first published online: 3 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147170

    9. Emerging physics of oxide heterostructures (pages 2076–2081)

      A. A. Demkov, A. Posadas, H. Seo, J. K. Lee and N. Sai

      Article first published online: 1 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147181

    10. Pentagonal puckering in a sheet of amorphous graphene (pages 2082–2086)

      Y. Li, F. Inam, Avishek Kumar, M. F. Thorpe and D. A. Drabold

      Article first published online: 11 JUL 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147195

    11. Materials preparation, manipulation, and structure

      Composition and orientation dependence of the interfacial energy in Fe–Cr stainless steel alloys (pages 2087–2090)

      Song Lu, Qing-Miao Hu, Börje Johansson and Levente Vitos

      Article first published online: 31 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147123

    12. 17O NQR and 13C NMR study of hydrogen-bonded organic ferroelectric croconic acid (pages 2091–2096)

      Janez Seliger, Janez Plavec, Primož Šket, Veselko Žagar and Robert Blinc

      Article first published online: 5 MAY 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201046649

    13. Elastic properties and electronic structures of Mg[BOND]Ce intermetallic compounds from first-principles calculations (pages 2097–2102)

      Fang Yang, Ji-Wei Wang, Jiang-Ling Ke, Zheng-Gui Pan and Bi-Yu Tang

      Article first published online: 13 MAY 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201046570

    14. Comparison of internal friction and torsion strain spectra for the cubic–tetragonal transformation of PMN-32PT crystal (pages 2103–2106)

      XiaoYi Wu, XiaoMin Xiong, XinGui Tang, XiangYong Zhao, HaoSu Luo and JinXiu Zhang

      Article first published online: 13 MAY 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201046587

    15. Lattice properties and dynamics, diffusion

      Elastic properties of novel rhenium nitrides from first principles (pages 2107–2111)

      Xianfeng Hao, Yuanhui Xu, Zhiping Li, Lei Wang, Faming Gao and Debao Xiao

      Article first published online: 25 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201046576

    16. On the effects of a totally reflecting barrier on an unbiased 1D random walk (pages 2112–2119)

      Scott K. Hansen

      Article first published online: 21 APR 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201046256

    17. Full optical phonon states and their dispersive spectra of a wurtzite GaN/AlGaN superlattice: Quantum size effect (pages 2120–2127)

      L. Zhang

      Article first published online: 26 APR 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201046602

    18. Thermal wave propagation in thin films on substrate: the time-harmonic thermal transfer function (pages 2128–2141)

      Hilmar Straube, Otwin Breitenstein and Jan-Martin Wagner

      Article first published online: 26 MAY 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147014

    19. Nanostructures, thin films, surfaces and interfaces

      Adsorption of Sn on the Ge(111)-(3 × 3) surface studied by ab initio density functional theory (pages 2142–2146)

      Sibel Özkaya, Mehmet Çakmak and Bora Alkan

      Article first published online: 21 APR 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201046031

    20. Single walled carbon nanotubes functionalized with hydrides as potential hydrogen storage media: A survey of intermolecular interactions (pages 2147–2158)

      V. J. Surya, K. Iyakutti, N. S. Venkataramanan, H. Mizuseki and Y. Kawazoe

      Article first published online: 13 MAY 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201046532

    21. Electronic states

      A fundamental requirement for crystal-field parametrization (pages 2159–2164)

      Jacek Mulak and Maciej Mulak

      Article first published online: 14 APR 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201046636

    22. Elastic properties and inter-atomic bonding in layered Fe–Cu arsenide oxide Sr2Fe2CuAs2O2 (pages 2165–2169)

      Igor R. Shein, Vyacheslav V. Bannikov and Alexander L. Ivanovskii

      Article first published online: 14 APR 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147050

    23. Optical properties

      Temperature-dependent study of the Raman A mode of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films (pages 2170–2174)

      Prashant K. Sarswat, Michael L. Free and Ashutosh Tiwari

      Article first published online: 14 APR 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201046477

    24. Resonant multiple diffraction of light in 3D opal-like photonic crystals (pages 2175–2179)

      V. G. Fedotov, A. V. Sel'kin, T. A. Ukleev, A. Yu. Men'shikova and N. N. Shevchenko

      Article first published online: 6 MAY 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201046382

    25. Magnetic properties; magnetic resonances

      Large multiple resonance of magnetoelectric effect in a multiferroic composite cylinder with an imperfect interface (pages 2180–2185)

      H. M. Wang, E. Pan and W. Q. Chen

      Article first published online: 15 APR 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147015

    26. Kondo lattice – fluctuating valence transition in Ce(Cu1–xNix)4Al compounds (pages 2186–2191)

      T. Toliński, D. Kostrzewa, K. Synoradzki, A. Szlaferek, M. Wencka and J. Dolinšek

      Article first published online: 21 APR 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201046341

    27. Curie temperatures of the concentrated and diluted Kondo-lattice model as a possible candidate to describe magnetic semiconductors and metals (pages 2192–2202)

      M. Stier and W. Nolting

      Article first published online: 26 APR 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201147059

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    4. Issue Information
    5. Contents
    6. Recent and forthcoming publications in pss
    7. Dedication
    8. Review Article
    9. Feature Article
    10. Original Papers
    11. Information for authors
    1. Information for authors (pages 2203–2204)

      Article first published online: 25 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201140834

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