TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for a structural response to the intermediate phase in GexSe1-x glasses
AU - Shatnawi, Moneeb T. M.
AU - Farrow, Christopher L.
AU - Chen, Ping
AU - Boolchand, Poolnit
AU - Sartbaeva, Asel
AU - Thorpe, M. F.
AU - Billinge, Simon J. L.
PY - 2008/3/26
Y1 - 2008/3/26
N2 - Atomic pair distribution functions (PDFs) obtained from high energy x-ray synchrotron radiation and x-ray absorption fine structure measurements were performed on 18 closely spaced compositions of chalcogenide glasses (Gex Se1-x with 0.15≤x≤0.40), which span the range of the floppy to rigid phase transition in these glasses. Structural parameters such as PDF peak widths, Debye-Waller factors from extended x-ray absorption fine structure, and the first sharp diffraction peak in S (Q) were extracted as a function of composition. These parameters smoothly evolve with composition, but there are no clear discontinuities or breaks in the slope associated with the appearance of the intermediate phase (IP). Therefore, these measurements do not confirm a structural origin for the IP.
AB - Atomic pair distribution functions (PDFs) obtained from high energy x-ray synchrotron radiation and x-ray absorption fine structure measurements were performed on 18 closely spaced compositions of chalcogenide glasses (Gex Se1-x with 0.15≤x≤0.40), which span the range of the floppy to rigid phase transition in these glasses. Structural parameters such as PDF peak widths, Debye-Waller factors from extended x-ray absorption fine structure, and the first sharp diffraction peak in S (Q) were extracted as a function of composition. These parameters smoothly evolve with composition, but there are no clear discontinuities or breaks in the slope associated with the appearance of the intermediate phase (IP). Therefore, these measurements do not confirm a structural origin for the IP.
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UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.77.094134
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.094134
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.094134
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:41549088802
SN - 1098-0121
VL - 77
JO - Physical Review B
JF - Physical Review B
IS - 9
M1 - 094134
ER -