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Shobhana Narasimhan

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Preprints

``Origins of Structural Stability in Small Clusters of Al, Sn and As'', Raghani Pushpa, Shobhana Narasimhan and Umesh Waghmare, 2003.

``Stress, Strain and Charge Transfer in the Ag/Pt(111) System: Does Continuum Elasticity Theory Work?'', Shobhana Narasimhan, 2003.


 
 
Publications
 

``Reconstruction of Pt(111) and Domain Patterns on Close Packed Metal Surfaces'' , Raghani Pushpa and Shobhana Narasimhan, Physical Review B 67, 205418 (2003).

``Double Stripe Reconstruction of the Pt(111) Surface'',  Raghani Pushpa and Shobhana Narasimhan, Bulletin of Materials Science 26, 91 (2003).

``Exchange-correlation errors at harmonic and anharmonic orders: the case of bulk Cu'', Shobhana Narasimhan and Stefano de Gironcoli, Bulletin of Materials  Science 26, 75 (2003).

``Honeycombs, Triangles and Bright Stars: Pattern Formation on Metal Surfaces'', Shobhana Narasimhan
and Pushpa Raghani, Physics at Surfaces and Interfaces,  B.N. Dev (ed.), World Scientific, Singapore,
pp 3-12 (2003).

``Ab Initio Lattice Dynamics of Ag(110)'', Shobhana Narasimhan, Surface Science 496, 331  (2002).

``Stars and Stripes: Nanoscale Misfit Dislocation Patterns on Surfaces'', Raghani Pushpa and Shobhana Narasimhan, Pure and Applied Chemistry 74, 1663 (2002).

``Ab initio calculation of the thermal properties of Cu: Performance of the LDA and GGA'', Shobhana Narasimhan and Stefano de Gironcoli, Physical Review B  65, 064302  (2001).

``Reversed Anisotropies and Thermal Contraction of FCC(110) surfaces'', Shobhana Narasimhan,
Physical Review B  64 125409, (2001).

``Ab Initio Calculations on the Anomalous Thermal Behaviour of FCC(110) Surfaces'',  Shobhana Narasimhan, Applied Surface Science 182 293 (2001).

`` Surprises in the Physics of Metal Surfaces'',  Shobhana Narasimhan, Journal of the Indian Institute of Science 81, 15 (2001).

``Phonon Softening and the Anomalous Thermal Expansion of Ag(111)'', Surface Science Letters 417, L1166 (1998).

``A Model for the Thermal Expansion of Ag(111)'', Shobhana Narasimhan and Matthias Scheffler, Zeitschrift fuer Physikalische Chemie 202 253 (1997).

``An ab initio} study of polytetrahedral packing: the Al-Mg system'', Shobhana Narasimhan and J.W. Davenport, Physical Review B, Rapid Communications  51, 659 (1995).

``First Principles Pseudopotential Calculations on Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys", J.W. Davenport, N. Chetty, R.B. Marr, S. Narasimhan, J.E. Pasciak, R.F. Peierls and M. Weinert, Alloy Modeling and Design, G. M. Stocks and P.E.A. Turchi, eds.,The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society,Warrendale,
PA (1994) .

``Elastic-Stress Domains and the Herringbone Reconstruction on Au(111)", Shobhana Narasimhan and David Vanderbilt, Physical Review Letters 69, 1564 (1992).

``Anharmonic self energies of phonons in silicon", Shobhana Narasimhan and David Vanderbilt, Physical Review B, Rapid Communications 43, 4541 (1991).

``Lifetimes and frequency shifts of phonons in Si'', Shobhana Narasimhan and David Vanderbilt, Phonons 89, vol. 1 (World Scientific) (1990).

``Anharmonic Elastic and Phonon Properties of Si",  David Vanderbilt, S.H. Taole and Shobhana Narasimhan, Physical Review B 40, 5657 (1989).

``Multipolar Polarizabilities and Rydberg States'', Srinivas Krishnagopal, Shobhana Narasimhan and
S.H. Patil,  J. Chem. Phys. 83, 5772 (1985).

Popular Science Articles

``Atomic Warrior''[about Ludwig Boltzmann], Resonance, September 2001.

``Fifty Years of the Transistor", Deccan Herald Science Section, December 1997.

Talks and presentations (outside JNCASR)

Seminar, Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy, July 2003.

Seminar, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2003.

Invited talk, Interaction Meeting on Electronic Structure Calculations and Computational Materials Science,
Pune, India, March 2003.

Seminar, Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K., July 2002.

Two posters, NANO-ECOSS, Malmo, Sweden, June 2002.

Talk, Physical Electronics Conference, Atlanta, U.S.A., June 2002.

Invited talk, PSI 2002, conference on Physics at Surfaces and Interfaces, Puri,  India, March 2002.

Invited talk, conference on ``Asymptotic Domains in Theoretical Physics", Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, February 2002.

Poster (with Raghani Pushpa), IUPAC Workshop on Advanced Materials -II, Bangalore, India, February 2002.

Invited talk, Annual Meeting of the Materials Research Society of India, Hyderabad, India, February 2002.

Poster (with Raghani Pushpa), 1st Meeting of the Asian Consortium for Computational
Materials Science, Bangalore, India, November 2001. (Prize for best poster)

Contributed talk, 1st Meeting of the Asian Consortium for Computational Materials Science, Bangalore, November 2001.

Seminar, Forschungszentrum, Juelich, Germany, May 2001.

Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Metal Physics, Stuttgart, Germany, May 2001.

Invited Talk, International Workshop on Nanomaterials, Kolkata, India, February 2001.

Talk, Mini-workshop on Electronic Structure Calculations, SSCU, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India,  October 2000.

Seminar, Chemical Engineering Dept., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, January 2000.

Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Metal Physics, Stuttgart, Germany, July 1999.

Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, May 1999.

Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA, May 1999.

Seminar, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, April 1999.

Colloquium, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA, April 1999.

Seminar, National Synchrotron Light Source, USA,  April 1999.

Seminar, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, April 1999.

Contributed talk, Meeting of the American Physical Society, Atlanta, USA, March 1999.

Invited Talk, UCSB-IISc-JNCASR Workshop, Bangalore, India, October 1998.

Talk, IUMRS 98, Bangalore, India (Young Research Award), October 1998.

Poster, ICSOS 96, Aix-en-Provence, France, July 1996.

Surface Science Seminar, Rutgers University, USA, October 1995.

Solid State Seminar, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, October 1995.

Seminar, KFA, Juelich, Germany, August 1995.

Seminar, IRRMA, Lausanne, Switzerland, May 1995.

Seminar, International Symposium on Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics, Zermatt, Switzerland, April 1995.

Talk, Meeting of the German Physical Society, Berlin, Germany, March 1995.

Talk, Meeting of the Materials Research Society, Boston, USA, November 1994.

Contributed talk, Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 1994.

Contributed talk, Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 1993.

Surface Science Seminar, Rutgers University, April 1992.

Invited talk, Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 1992.

Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, USA, March 1992.

Contributed talk, Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 1991.

Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, November 1990.

Poster, International Conference on Phonon Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, August 1989.

Contributed talk, Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 1989.


Tanja Giessel and Shobhana Narasimhan
Trapped in a Quantum Corral
APS March Meeting, 1999


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