P R Vijayaraghavan
Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics
Volume 11 Issue 3 September 1978 pp 251-288 Solids
Inelastic neutron scattering from and lattice dynamics of α-KNO3
K R Rao S L Chaplot P K Iyengar A H Venkatesh P R Vijayaraghavan
Coherent inelastic neutron scattering techniques are employed to measure several branches of the phoon dispersion relation in KNO3 in its orthorhombic (α-phase or phase II) form at room temperature. Group theoretical selection rules for external modes of the crystal have been used in the measurements along the three symmetry directions Σ(ξ00), Δ(0ξ0) and Λ(00ξ).
Theoretical investigation of the lattice dynamics of the crystal is carried out on the basis of a rigid molecular-ion model using the external mode formalism. A two-body potential consisting of the Coulombic interaction and the Born-Mayer type short range interaction is assumed. The effective charges and radii of different atoms are determined by applying the stability criterion for the crystal. Dispersion curves are calculated, representation by representation, making use of group theoretical information. Comparison of theoretical results with experimental information on elastic constants, optical data and neutron results are made. Agreement between theoretical and the various experimental results may be considered very satisfactory.
Volume 19 Issue 6 December 1982 pp 593-632 Solid State Physics
Neutron, x-ray and lattice dynamical studies of paraelectric Sb2S3
K R Rao S L Chaplot V M Padmanabhan P R Vijayaraghavan
Neutron and x-ray diffraction studies of Sb2S3 indicate extensive diffuse scattering in the plane perpendicular to the chain axis of polymer-like (Sb4S6)
The phonon dispersion relation shows that there are rather flat TA-TO branches of very low frequency in the
Volume 33 Issue 5 November 1989 pp 595-602 Condensed Matter Physics
S L Chaplot R Mukhopadhyay P R Vijayaraghavan A S Deshpande K R Rao
Inelastic neutron scattering experiments to determine phonon density of states of coherent scattering samples of polycrystalline complex solids are generally intensity-limited and therefore are feasible only at high flux facilities. Phonon density of states of the monoclinic phase of tetracyanoethylene at 300 K, obtained using the medium resolution triple axis spectrometer at the new Indian medium flux reactor Dhruva are reported here. The raw data is converted to the “neutron weighted” phonon density of states by applying suitable corrections. Comparison made with results from a theoretical calculation based on a semirigid molecule model of lattice dynamics is fair. Results from Dhruva are also consistent with that obtained (to be published) at the high flux pulsed neutron source (ISIS) of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in United Kingdom.
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