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We present experimental evidence of the fact that lysozyme crystals, which are grown from their mother solution and exist in it, dissolve on heating above T=307 K. We argue that the anomaly in the light scattering recently observed at the…
We present a Raman spectroscopy investigation of the vibrational properties of L-histidine crystals at low temperatures. The temperature dependence of the spectra show discontinuities at 165 K, which we identify with modifications in the…
Single crystal samples of L-leucine, C6H13NO2, a fundamental aliphatic amino acid of the human body, have been studied by Raman spectroscopy at temperatures from 300 to 430 K over the spectral range from 50 to 3100 cm-1. A tentative…
The structural changes in Sr(0.66)Ba(0.34)Nb2O6 single crystal fibers when the temperature decreases from 295 to 10 K is investigated by dielectric constant measurements and Raman spectroscopy. The anomaly observed in the plot of e is…
Polarized Raman scattering measurements on IrTe$_2$ single crystals carried out over 15~K - 640~K temperature range, and across the structural phase transition, reveal new insights regarding the crystal symmetry.\ In the high temperature…
We present here temperature-dependent Raman, x-ray diffraction and specific heat studies between room temperature and 12 K on single crystals of spin-ice pyrochlore compound $Dy_2Ti_2O_7$ and its non-magnetic analogue $Lu_2Ti_2O_7$. Raman…
The study of single-crystal Raman spectra of a series of crystalline secondary amides (acetanilide, methacetin, phenacetine, orthorhombic and monoclinic polymorphs of paracetamol) as well as simple amides formanilide and benzanilide in the…
The results of polarization-dependent Raman spectroscopy of single-crystalline LiVO$_2$ exhibiting transition to a diamagnetic state below $T_c \sim $500K are reported. Our measurements clearly detect additional peaks in the low-temperature…
Raman scattering experiments on Na_{x}CoO_2 yH_2O single crystals show a broad electronic continuum with a pronounced peak around 100 cm-1 and a cutoff at approximately 560 cm-1over a wide range of doping levels. The electronic Raman…
We report a detailed Raman scattering study of the lattice dynamics in detwinned single crystals of the underdoped high temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O6+x (x=0.75, 0.6, 0.55 and 0.45). Whereas at room temperature the phonon spectra of…
The anharmonic lattice dynamics of oxide and halide perovskites play a crucial role in their mechanical and optical properties. Raman spectroscopy is one of the key methods used to study these structural dynamics. However, despite decades…
We report on an inelastic (Raman) light scattering study of the local structure of amorphous GeTe films. A detailed analysis of the temperature-reduced Raman spectra has shown that appreciable structural changes occur as a function of…
The polarized Raman scattering spectra from freshly cleaved $ab$, $ac$, and $bc$ surfaces of high quality twin free YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.5}$ (Ortho-II) single crystals ($T_c$=57.5 K and $\Delta T = 0.6$ K) were studied between 80 and 300 K.…
We report a temperature-dependent Raman scattering investigation of DyScO3 and GdScO3 single crystals from room temperature up to 1200 {\deg}C. With increasing temperature, all modes decrease monotonously in wavenumber without anomaly,…
Two narrow anomalies with peaks at $\sim 30 K$ and $\sim 60 K$ and a wide diffuse anomaly within the range 110-240 K have been found in a low temperature heat capacity of chromium tris-acetylacetonate Cr(AA)_3. Besides, the reversible…
Raman scattering spectra of zigzag spin chain TaFe$_{1.25}$Te$_3$ single crystal are presented in a temperature range from 80 to 300 K. Nine Raman active modes of $A_g$ and $B_g$ symmetry are clearly observed and assigned by probing…
We investigate the frequency response of narrow spectral holes in a doped crystal structure as a function of temperature below 1 K. We identify a particular regime in which this response significantly deviates from the expected two-phonon…
It is demonstrated that measurements of positions of atoms scattered from a quasi-condensate in a Raman process provide information on the temperature of the parent cloud. In particular, the widths of the density and second order…
Pressure-dependent Raman scattering studies in the range 0.0 -- 32 kbar were carried out in L-alanine in order to investigate its external mode phonon spectra in relation to the phase transitions in the crystal. A careful analysis of the…
We studied yeast cells in physiological solution during freezing by Raman microspectroscopy technique. The purpose was to find out the origin of a sharp peak near ~3430 cm^-1 in Raman spectrum of frozen mammalian cells, observed earlier (J.…