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Nature Materials 3, 755 - 756 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nmat1248
Amorphous materials: Relaxing times for silicon
Paul F. McMillan1
- Paul F. McMillan is at the Department of Chemistry, Christopher Ingold Laboratory and Materials Chemistry Centre, University College London, London WC1H 0AJ, UK; also at the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Sreet, London W1S 4BS. e-mail: p.f.mcmillan@ucl.ac.uk
Abstract
A glass transition in amorphous silicon has been surmised but never clearly shown experimentally. The very fast timescale of ion hammering experiments allows observation of the long-sought low-density liquid polyamorph of silicon.
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