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C. C. Silva

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arXiv2025

Resonant Raman Scattering and Optical Absorption Studies of Zn(II) Impurities in L-Alanine Single Crystal

We present a study of low-concentration Zn (II) impurities in L-Alanine Single Crystal (ZNLA) employing resonant Raman scattering and optical absorption spectroscopy. By analyzing the relative integrated intensity of the selective vibrational modes, we observe a resonant enhancement of Raman-active modes near the UV absorption band, associated with vibrations of the amino and carboxyl groups in ZNLA. These findings suggest that zinc cations occupy an interstitial position coordinated by amino and carboxyl groups. Also, ZNLA single crystal shows a strong antiresonance behavior for some modes associated with amino and carboxyl groups. The antiresonance model in the cross-section allowed the estimation of the bandgap to be 3.8 eV, which perfectly agrees with the direct bandgap obtained from the absorption spectrum (3.75 eV). Finally, our approach proves to be useful for detecting interactions between transition metal ion impurities and intramolecular structures in other transition metal-doped organic amino acid systems.

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arXiv2012

Structural, electronic, and optical properties of ZrO2 from ab initio calculations

Structural, electronic, and optical properties for the cubic, tetragonal, and monoclinic crystalline phases of ZrO2, as derived from it ab initio full-relativistic calculations, are presented. The electronic structure calculations were carried out by means of the all-electron full potential linear augmented plane wave method, within the framework of the density functional theory and the local density approximation. The calculated carrier effective masses are shown to be highly anisotropic. The results obtained for the real and imaginary parts of the dielectric function, the reflectivity, and the refraction index, show good agreement with the available experimental results. In order to obtain the static dielectric constant of ZrO2, we added to the electronic part, the optical phonons contribution, which leads to values of e1(0)~29.5, 26.2, 21.9, respectively along the xx, yy, and zz directions, for the monoclinic phase, in excellent accordance with experiment. Relativistic effects, including the spin-orbit interaction, are demonstrated to be important for a better evaluation of the effective mass values, and in the detailed structure of the frequency dependent complex dielectric function.

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arXiv2006

Frequency Dependence of the Dielectric Constants and of the Reflectivity for HfO2 and ZrO2 from First-Principles Calculations

We present, in this work, our theoretical results for the phonon dispersions and the frequency dependence of the reflectivities and the dielectric constants of ZrO2 and HfO2 in the monoclinic phase. The results show the importance of the lattice contribution for the evaluation of the static dielectric constant. Also, besides the anisotropy shown by these materials along the x and z directions, the zero frequency static dielectric constant decreases with the increasing pressure.

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