Dec, 2007
Nonviscous metallic liquid Se
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
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- 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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- DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.245901
- ISSN : 0031-9007
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000251674300036