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Dec, 2007

Nonviscous metallic liquid Se

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • V. V. Brazhkin
  • ,
  • K. Funakoshi
  • ,
  • M. Kanzaki
  • ,
  • Y. Katayama

Volume
99
Number
24
First page
245901
Last page
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.245901
Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Viscosity is one of the fundamental physical properties of liquids; for different melts it varies in an extremely wide range. Selenium is among the first elementary substances to have manifested, at compression, a phase transformation in the liquid state accompanied by melt metallization. Direct measurements by means of a real-time radiography show that the viscosity of liquid Se under pressure drops by 500 times to a very low level of 8 mPa s. This is the first case of viscosity measurements being performed both for a relatively viscous semiconducting state and a low-viscous metallic state of the same liquid substance. The viscosity of the Se melt strongly decreases with pressure along the melting curve in a semiconducting state and experiences a further significant drop at melt metallization. A similar phenomenon is expected to be observed in many chalcohenide, halogenide, and oxide melts.

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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.245901
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https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000251674300036&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.245901
  • ISSN : 0031-9007
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000251674300036

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