Journal
MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 381-385Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/16/2/008
Keywords
density; structure; undercooled molten silicon; synchrotron radiation; electromagnetic levitation
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X-ray diffraction and density measurements have been simultaneously performed to investigate the atomic structure of molten silicon in a wide temperature range including the undercooling region by using the electromagnetic levitation technique. The density was obtained from the mass and the shape of a levitated sample by a non-contact method based on the image analysis technique. X-ray diffraction experiments were performed by using the synchrotron radiation at SPring8, Japan. From structural analysis of undercooled molten silicon, the first nearest neighbour coordination numbers and interatomic distances were about 5 and 2.48 Angstrom with no dependence on temperature in the range of 1900-1550 K. We conclude as a result that the short-range order based on tetrahedral bonds of undercooled molten silicon does not change with the degree of undercooling but that medium-range order changes by the degree of undercooling.
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