Title : Local orders in II-VI liquid compounds
Language : English
Author, co-author : Gaspard, Jean-Pierre [Université de Liège - ULg > Département de physique > Département de physique]
Raty, Jean-Yves [Université de Liège - ULg > Département de physique > Physique de la matière condensée]
Ceolin, R. [> > > >]
Bellissent, R. [> > > >]
Publication date : 1996
Journal title : Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Publisher : Elsevier Science
Volume : 205-207
Pages : 75-7878
Audience : International
ISSN : 0022-3093
City : Amsterdam
Country : The Netherlands
Keywords : [en] Experimental/ cadmium compounds ; electronegativity ; II-VI semiconductors ; liquid semiconductors ; liquid structure ; melting ; mercury compounds ; neutron diffraction ; zinc compounds/ local order ; neutron scattering ; melting ; fourfold coordination ; semiconductors ; sixfold coordination ; electronegativity ; repulsive potential hardness ; entropy ; liquid structure ; CdTe ; HgTe ; ZnTe/ A6125 Studies of specific liquid structures A6470D Solid-liquid transitions/ CdTe/bin Cd /bin Te/bin ; HgTe/bin Hg /bin Te/bin ; ZnTe/bin Te /bin Zn/bin
Abstract : [en] The structure of liquid CdTe, HgTe and ZnTe is studied by neutron scattering. Upon melting, drastically different behaviors are found: CdTe and ZnTe keep their fourfold coordination in the melt and remain semiconductors, whereas HgTe becomes sixfold coordinated and metallic. This dissimilarity is discussed in terms of the electronegativity difference and of the repulsive potential hardness. Entropic aspects are also discussed
Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2268/109707
DOI : 10.1016/S0022-3093(96)00215-3
10.1016/S0022-3093(96)00215-3
Other URL : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022309396002153