David A. Crandles
	Brock University, Physics Department (905) 688-5550 ext. 3539

Research Interests

Teaching Assignments (2011-2012)

Fall - Winter

• PHYS 3P35 - Electromagnetism I (fall term)
• PHYS 4P70 - Condensed Matter Physics I (fall term)
• PHYS 1P91/1P21 - Mechanics and Waves (w or w/o Lab)(winter term)
• PHYS 2P51 - Classical and Modern Optics (winter term)
• PHYS 5P30 - Advanced Electromagnetism

Recent Publications

• S.M.M. Yee, D.A. Crandles, L.V.Goncharova, Ferromagnetism on the unpolished surfaces of single crystal metal oxide substrates J of Applied Physics 110, (2011) 033906
• S. Jamali Gharetape, M.P. Singh, F.S. Razavi, D.A. Crandles, L.Y. Zhao,and K.T. Leung Effect of vanadium deficiency on properties of polycrystalline LaVO₃ Applied Physics Letters 98, (2011) 052509
• D.A. Crandles, B. DesRoches and F.S. Razavi, A search for defect related ferromagnetism in SrTiO₃ J. of Applied Physics 108, (2010) 053908
• F.S. Razavi, S.Jamali Gharetape, D.A. Crandles, G. Christiani, R.K. Kremer and H.-U. Habermeier, Evidence for random networks of diodes in thin films of LaVO₃ on SrTiO₃ substrates Applied Physics Letters 96, (2010) 042110
• D.A. Crandles, F. Eftekhari, R. Faust, G. Sudhakar Rao, M. Reedyk and F.S. Razavi, Kramers-Kronig-constrained variational dielectric fitting and the reflectance of a thin film on a substrate Applied Optics 47, (2008) 4205-4211
• D.A. Crandles, F. Eftekhari, R. Faust, G. Sudhakar Rao, M. Reedyk and F.S. Razavi, Infrared active phonons in SrRu _xMg_1-xO₃ thin films. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 41, (2008) 135007.
• D.A. Crandles, Mohammad Mehdi Yazdanian and F.S. Razavi, Metal-insulator transition in Mg-doped SrRuO ₃ thin films prepared by laser ablation. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 39, (2006) 6-13.
• D.A. Crandles, M. Reedyk, G. Wardlaw, F.S. Razavi, T. Hagino, S. Nagata, I. Shimono and R.K Kremer, Absence of the 90 K structural transition in CuV ₂S₄ crystals grown by chemical vapour transport using TeCl₄. J. Phys. Cond.Matt. , 17, 4813-23, 2005.
• D.A. Crandles, M. Reedyk, R.W. Schaeffer, A.E. Hultgren, and R. Schlee, Metal insulator transition in the SrMg _xRu_1-xO₃ system. Phys. Rev. B, 65, 224407, 2002.
• D.A. Crandles, B. Nicholas, C. Dreher, C.C. Homes, A.W. McConnell, B.P. Clayman, W.H. Gong and J.E. Greedan, "Optical Properties of highly-reduced SrTiO_3-x Phys. Rev. B, , 59, 12842, 1999.
• M.G. Hildebrand, A. Slepkov, M. Reedyk, G. Amow, J.E. Greedan, and D.A. Crandles, Far-infrared optical properties of antiferromagnetic SmTiO₃. Phys. Rev. B, 59, 6938-42, 1999.
• M. Reedyk, D.A. Crandles, M. Cardona, J.D. Garrett, and J.E. Greedan, Raman Scattering in the RTiO₃ family of Mott-Hubbard Insulators. Phys. Rev. B, 55, 1442-8, 1997.