Local melting in silicon driven by retrograde solubility

Acta Materialia

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4320-4328

  Fenning, D P ^a   Newman, B K ^a   Bertoni, M I ^a,c   Hudelson, S ^a,d   Bernardis, S ^a,e   Marcus, M A ^b   Fakra, S C ^b   Buonassisi, T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^d Arizona State University   (United States)

^e 1366 Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Melting; Nickel; Precipitation; Retrograde melting; Silicon

Indexed keywords

ENTHALPY OF FORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; LIQUID DROPLETS; LOCAL MELTING; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MICROPROBE MEASUREMENTS; RETROGRADE SOLUBILITY;

DROPS; LASERS; LIQUIDS; MELTING; NICKEL; NUCLEATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SILICIDES;

SILICON;

EID: 84878558556     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2013.03.037     Document Type: Article

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