University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Confirmation of McMillan's Concept of Discommensurations in 2H-Tantalum Diselenide
Abstract
dc:descriptionWe have studied the 77Se nuclear magnetic resonance spectra in a single crystal sample of 2H-TaSe2 to study the charge density wave (CDW) in this compound and to test a concept put forth by McMillan. We compare the temperature dependence of the NMR lineshape obtained by Couturie from 4.2 K to 130 K with a lineshape theory which encompasses McMillan's theory as well as the theory which preceded McMillan's. We have utilized precision electrical resistance measurements which, when compared to the recent x-ray diffraction results of Fleming, Moncton, McWhan and DiSalvo, provide us with an independent measure of the CDW properties. Our results confirm McMillan's hypothesis.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Physics
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Suits, Bryan H.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Slichter, C.P.
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- © 1981 Bryan H. Suits
- Language dc:language
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- 537453
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/25239