Comment on "Infrared and Raman selection rules for elastic vibrations of spherical nanoparticles"

Lucien Saviot (1) , Eugène Duval (2) , Serguei V. Goupalov

1 LRRS - Laboratoire de Recherche sur la Réactivité des Solides
2 LPCML - Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux Luminescents

This Comment demonstrates again that selection rules established several years ago for the infrared absorption and the Raman scattering by vibrations of a spherical nanoparticle are correct and that the claimed errors about them are wrong.

Domaines: Science des matériaux [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]

Lucien Saviot, Eugène Duval, Serguei V. Goupalov. Comment on "Infrared and Raman selection rules for elastic vibrations of spherical nanoparticles". Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2006, 74, pp.197401. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.74.197401⟩. ⟨hal-00115082⟩