Special Topic Issue
Optical and Vibrational Spectroscopies

Proceedings of the symposium "Optical and Vibrational Spectroscopies: a Tribute to Manuel Cardona", August 18-20, 2010, Queretaro, Mexico [conference poster]

• Preface
  Aldo H. Romero and J. Serrano (DOI: 10.1002/andp.201010463)

• On the multi-orbital band structure and itinerant magnetism of iron-pnictide superconductors (43 pp.)
  O. K. Andersen and L. Boeri (DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000149)
• Optical properties of nitride nanostructures (11 pp.)
  A. Cantarero, A. Cros, N. Garro, M. I. Gomez-Gomez, A. Garcia-Cristobal, M. M. de Lima Jr., B. Daudin, A. Rizzi, C. Denker, and J. Malindretos (DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000107)
• Raman scattering on nanomaterials and nanostructures (13 pp.)
  Z. V. Popovic, Z. Dohcevic-Mitrovic, M. Scepanovic, M. Grujic-Brojcin, and S. Askrabic (DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000094)
• Electrostatic energy profiles at nanometer-scale in group III nitride semiconductors using electron holography (12 pp.)
  F. A. Ponce (DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000112)
• The quantum Boltzmann equation in semiconductor physics (14 pp.)
  David W. Snoke (DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000102)

• Sum-frequency spectroscopy on bulk and surface phonons of noncentrosymmetric crystals (6 pp.)
  Wei-Tao Liu and Y. R. Shen (DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000093)
• Acoustic vibrations in free-standing single-, bi-layer nanomembranes and patterned wires (14 pp.)
  R. S. Bandhu, R. Sooryakumar, and K. Bussmann (DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000098)
• Polarization contrast linear spectroscopies for cubic semiconductors under stress: macro- and micro-reflectance difference spectroscopies (8 pp.)
  L. F. Lastras-Martinez, R. E. Balderas-Navarro, R. Castro-Garcia, R. Herrera-Jasso, M. Chavira-Rodriguez, and A. Lastras-Martinez (DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000097)
• A tale of two vacancies (8 pp.)
  W. Cheng, L. Liu, P. Y. Yu, Z. X. Ma, and S. S. Mao (DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000110)
• Uniaxial strain in graphene and armchair graphene nanoribbons: An ab initio study (8 pp.)
  N. Rosenkranz, M. Mohr, and C. Thomsen (DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000092)
• Theory of strain effects on the Raman spectrum of Si-Ge core-shell nanowires (15 pp.)
  J. Menendez, R. Singh, and J. Drucker (DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000106)
• Lattice dynamics of ZnAl₂O₄ and ZnGa₂O₄ under high pressure (11 pp.)
  S. Lopez-Moreno, P. Rodriguez-Hernandez, A. Munoz, A. H. Romero, F. J. Manjon, D. Errandonea, E. Rusu, and V. V. Ursaki (DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000096)
• Theoretical approaches to the temperature and zero-point motion effects on the electronic band structure (11 pp.)
  X. Gonze, P. Boulanger, and M. Cote (DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000100)
• The scientific road of Manuel Cardona: a bibliometric analysis (12 pp.)
  A. H. Romero, R. K. Kremer, and W. Marx (DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000090)