Dynamics across the liquid-liquid transition in supercooled tellurium

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Liquid-liquid transitions are found in many simple metals and semi-conductors, in the chalcogenides (S,Se,Te) and in network glasses and elemental liquids. How the thermodynamic signatures of these liquid-liquid transitions are related to the underlying structural and dynamical liquid properties is not well known. Tellurium, as several other chalcogenides, shows a clear thermodynamic transition with a peak in compressibility and heat capacity and a maximum in its density. This behaviour is related to a change in liquid structure and for tellurium the transition takes place in the supercooled regime at ~353 deg C. We want to know how the thermodynamic transition is manifested in the microscopic liquid dynamics. We thus propose to measure the dynamic structure factor across the liquid-liquid transition in Te using the neutron spin echo technique to reach the relevant time and length-scales. We have previously been granted beam time at IN11 for a test experiment (6-01-307) to prove the feasibility of using NSE at IN11 to study the dynamics in supercooled Te. We here propose the full experiment drawing on the experience of the test run.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.6-01-314
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.6-01-314
Provenance
Creator Matic, Aleksandar; Mattsson, Johan; Falus, Peter
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2013
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Size 56 MB
Version 1
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields