Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Brillouin-scattering study of the elastic constants of phenothiazine through the phase transition’ ’’

Authors

• J. Sartwell, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
• Craig J. Eckhardt, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

October 1995

Comments

Published by Am Physical Soc. Phys. Rev. B 52, 10635 - 10636 (1995). Copyright 1995. Permission to use. http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v52/p10635.

Abstract

Disagreement in the ordering of relative magnitudes of the elastic constants of phenothiazine with those of Ecolivet et al. is resolved. Dubious methodologies and assumptions employed by Ecolivet et al. in their measurements, approximations, and arguments [C. Ecolivet et al., Phys. Rev. B 44, 4185 (1991)] are noted. Samples employed by these investigators in both their ultrasonic and Brillouin measurements are shown to exhibit properties consistent with impure samples and inconsistent with those of Sartwell and Eckhardt.