Sound velocity in liquid and glassy selenium |
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Institution: | 1. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA;2. Katholike Universiteit Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium |
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Abstract: | The speed of longitudinal sound waves at 7 and 22 MHz has been measured in liquid, supercooled, and amorphous selenium, including the region around the glass transition temperature, Tg, near 35 °C. In amorphous selenium the speed of shear waves at 7 MHz was also measured. The experiments were performed with high purity Se (99.9999%) hermetically sealed in an evacuated silica ampoule. Four temperature regions with strongly different relaxation times can be distinguished between room temperature and the melting point: (1) a glassy state below Tg, which is stable on the time scale of the experiments, (2) a glassy state above Tg, which is metastable on the time scale of the experiments, (3) a region where homogeneous crystal nucleation occurs, and (4) a supercooled liquid, which is stable on the time scale of the experiments. Each region is marked by a change in the slope of the temperature dependence of the sound velocity. Near the glass transition temperature the velocities of longitudinal and transverse sound exhibit hysteresis with a step-like drop on heating and a more continuous rise on cooling. The step-like anomaly in sound velocity may be a general property of the glass transition. |
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