Illuminating liquid polymorphism in silicon

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 40, 2010, Pages 17063-17064

  Sastry, Srikanth ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; ENERGY; LIQUID; MELTING POINT; NOTE; PHASE TRANSITION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNOLOGY;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE TRANSITION; SILICON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 78049235555     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012192107     Document Type: Note

References (20)

1. Poole PH, Sciortino F, Essmann U, Stanley HE (1992) Phase behaviour of metastable water. Nature 360:324-328.
2. Saika-Voivod I, Sciortino F, Poole PH (2000) Computer simulations of liquid silica: Equation of state and liquid-liquid phase transition. Phys Rev E 63:011202.
3. Sastry S, Austen Angell C (2003) Liquid-liquid phase transition in supercooled silicon. Nat Mater 2:739-743.
4. Scandolo S (2003) Liquid-liquid phase transition in compressed hydrogen from first-principles simulations. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100:3051-3053.
5. Beye M, Sorgenfrei S, Schlotter WF, Wurth W, Föhlisch A (2010) The liquid-liquid phase transition in silicon revealed by snapshots of valence electrons. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:16772-16776.
6. Kumar P, et al. (2006) Protein glass transition and liquid-liquid critical point of water. Phys Rev Lett 97:177802.
7. Spaepen F, Turnbull D (1978) Kinetics of motion of crystal-melt interfaces. Laser-Solid Interactions and Laser Processing AIP Conference Proceedings No. 50, eds Ferris SD, Leamy HJ, Poate JM (American Institute of Physics, New York), pp 73-83.
8. Bagley BG, Chen HS (1978) A calculation of the thermodynamic first order amorphous semiconductor to metallic liquid transition temperature. Laser-Solid Interactions and Laser Processing. AIP Conference Proceedings No. 50, eds Ferris SD, Leamy HJ, Poate JM (American Institute of Physics, New York), pp 97-101.
9. Ashwin SS, Waghmare UV, Sastry S (2004) Metal-to-semimetal transition in supercooled liquid silicon. Phys Rev Lett 92:175701.
10. Jakse N, Pasturel A (2007) Liquid-liquid phase transformation in silicon: Evidence from first-principles molecular dynamics simulations. Phys Rev Lett 99:205702-205704.
11. Ganesh P, Widom M (2009) Liquid-liquid transition in supercooled silicon determined by first-principles simulation. Phys Rev Lett 102:075701.
12. Kim TH, et al. (2005) In situ high-energy x-ray diffraction study of the local structure of supercooled liquid Si. Phys Rev Lett 95:085501.
13. Thompson MO, et al. (1984) Melting temperature and explosive crystallization of amorphous silicon during pulsed laser irradiation. Phys Rev Lett 52:2360-2363.
14. Hedler A, Klaumünzer SL, Wesch W (2004) Amorphous silicon exhibits a glass transition. Nat Mater 3:804-809.
15. Mishima O, Stanley HE (1998) The relationship between liquid, supercooled and glassy water. Nature 396:329-335.
16. Debenedetti PG, Stanley HE (2003) Supercooled and glassy water. Phys Today 56:40-46.
17. Mallamace F, et al. (2007) Evidence of the existence of the low-density liquid phase in supercooled, confined water. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:424-428.
18. Angell CA (2008) Insights into phases of liquid water from study of its unusual glass-forming properties. Science 319:582-587.
19. Deb SK, Wilding M, Somayazulu M, McMillan PF (2001) Pressure-induced amorphization and an amorphous-amorphous transition in densified porous silicon. Nature 414:528-530.
20. Johnson SL, et al. (2003) Properties of liquid silicon observed by time resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy. Phys Rev Lett 91:157403.