Artículo:

Substrate-enhanced supercooling in AuSi eutectic droplets

Autor:

T. U. Schülli

Resumen:

Supercooling is a phenomenon by which a liquid remains in its fluid phase well below its melting point. Supercooling can be inhibited by the presence of a solid surface, whereby crystalline surfaces cause adjacent atoms in the liquid to become ordered, inducing crystal nucleation of the melt. Here it is shown that a particular surface ordering of gold atoms on top of a silicon substrate can stabilize the liquid phase of a gold-silicon eutectic droplet, and thus enhance supercooling

Página:

1174

Publicación:

Nature

Volúmen:

464

Número:

7292

Periodo:

22 Abril 2010

ISSN:

00280836

SrcID:

00280836-2010-04-22.txt