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NAME Lorin Benedict
PHONE (925) 424-3034
FAX (925) 422-2851
E-MAIL benedict5@llnl.gov
ADDRESS Lawrence Livermore National Lab
7000 East Avenue, L-045
Livermore, CA 94550


Research Interests
Theory of optical properties of novel materials, and of materials under extreme conditions of pressure and/or temperature. Physics of fullerenes, nanotubes, and related materials.
Publications
Selected
  • Lorin X. Benedict, Thorsten Wethkamp, Katrin Wilmers, Christoph Cobet, Norbert Esser, Eric L. Shirley, Wolfgang Richter, and Manuel Cardona, Dielectric function of wurtzite GaN and AlN thin films, Solid State Communications vol.112, 129 (1999).
  • Lorin X. Benedict and Eric L. Shirley, Ab initio calculation of epsilon_2(omega) including the electron-hole interaction: application to GaN and CaF2, Physical Review B vol.59, 5441 (1999).
  • Lorin X. Benedict, Eric L. Shirley, and Robert B. Bohn, Optical absorption of insulators, and the electron-hole interaction: an ab initio calculation, Physical Review Letters vol.80, 4514 (1998).
  • Lorin X. Benedict, Eric L. Shirley, and Robert B. Bohn, Theory of optical absorption in diamond, Si, Ge, and GaAs, Physical Review B, Rapid Communications vol.57, 9385 (1998).
  • Lorin X. Benedict, Vincent H. Crespi, Nasreen G. Chopra, Marvin L. Cohen, A. Zettl, and Steven G. Louie, Microscopic determination of the interlayer binding energy in graphite, Chemical Physics Letters vol.286, 490 (1998).
  • L. Chico, Vincent H. Crespi, Lorin X. Benedict, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen, Pure carbon nanoscale devices: Nanotube heterojunctions, Physical Review Letters vol.76, 971 (1996).
  • Lorin X. Benedict, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen, Static polarizabilities of single-wall carbon nanotubes, Physical Review B vol.52, 8541 (1995).




People in the Quantum Simulations Group
[Giulia Galli | Lorin Benedict | Stanimir Bonev | Erik Draeger | Jeffrey Grossman | Randy Hood | Burkhard Militzer |
Laurent Pizzagalli | Aaron Puzder | Jean-Yves Raty | Fernando Reboredo | Eric Schwegler | Andrew Williamson ]


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