Theory of Pressure Dependence of the Density of States and Reflectivity of Selenium

J. D. Joannopoulos; Th. Starkloff; Marc Kastner

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.38.660

Theory of Pressure Dependence of the Density of States and Reflectivity of Selenium

J. D. Joannopoulos, Th. Starkloff, and Marc Kastner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 38, 660 – Published 21 March 1977

Abstract

The pressure dependence of the density of states and the reflectivity of trigonal Se is calculated using a new self-consistent pseudopotential technique. The results show that pressure-dependent reflectivity experiments may be interpreted without the need for microscopic fields.

Received 29 November 1976

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.38.660

Authors & Affiliations

J. D. Joannopoulos^*,†, Th. Starkloff^‡, and Marc Kastner^§

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

^*Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.
^†Supported in part by the Sloan Research Foundation.
^‡Fulbright Fellow (West Germany).
^§Supported in part by National Science Foundation Grant No. DMR73-02678 and the Materials Research Laboratory.