The liquid-liquid phase transition in silicon revealed by snapshots of valence electrons

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

Volumn 107, Issue 39, 2010, Pages 16772-16776

  Beye, Martin ^a,b   Sorgenfrei, Florian ^a   Schlotter, William F ^a,c   Wurth, Wilfried ^a   Föhlisch, Alexander ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid liquid hypothesis; Silicon phases; Ultrafast spectroscopy; X ray spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; LIQUID; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 78049241965     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006499107     Document Type: Article

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