Journal Article

Transmission-Based Vertebrae Strength Probe Development: Far Field Probe Property Extraction and Integrated Machine Vision Distance Validation Experiments

Development of a microwave transmission based probe for vertebrae strength.

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Bernd Pfrommer

Temperature-Dependent Hydrogen-Bond Geometry in Liquid Water

We have determined the hydrogen-bond geometry in liquid water from 0 to 80C by combining measurements of the proton magnetic shielding tensor with ab initio density functional …

Kristofer Modig

Si-O-Si bond-angle distribution in vitreous silica from first-principles 29 Si NMR analysis

The correlation between 29 Si chemical shifts and Si-O-Si bond angles in SiO2 is determined within density-functional theory for the full range of angles present in vitreous silica

Francesco Mauri

NMR Chemical Shifts of Ice and Liquid Water:  The Effects of Condensation

We report the results of ab initio density functional theory calculations of the NMR chemical shift of liquid water and hexagonal ice.

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Bernd Pfrommer

Signature of surface states on NMR chemical shifts: A theoretical prediction

We show with an ab initio calculation that electronic surface states have a strong effect on NMR chemical-shift spectra.

Francesco Mauri

Unconstrained Energy Functionals for Electronic Structure Calculations

The performance of conjugate gradient schemes for minimizing unconstrained energy functionals in the context of condensed matter electronic structure density functional …

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Bernd Pfrommer

Density Functional Study of the Magnetic and Metal-Insulator Transition of bcc Hydrogen

A model body-centered cubic (bcc) hydrogen solid is studied using density functional theory in the local spin density approximation (LSDA) and in the generalized gradient …

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Bernd Pfrommer

Ab initio NMR chemical shifts in hard carbon nitride compounds

We show that NMR chemical shift spectroscopy could help to identify the crystalline phases of hard carbon nitride compounds.

Young-Gui Yoon

Ab initio study of silicon in the R8 phase

We present a detailed ab initio study of the electronic and structural properties of the recently discovered R8 phase of silicon.

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Bernd Pfrommer

Ab initio NMR Chemical Shift of Diamond, Chemical-Vapor-Deposited Diamond, and Amorphous Carbon

The NMR chemical shift spectra of diamond, chemical-vapor-deposited (CVD) diamond, and diamondlike amorphous carbon are computed from first principles.

Francesco Mauri