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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McMillan, P. Relaxing times for silicon. Nature Mater 3, 755–756 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1248
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