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Kinetics of Glass Formation by Solidification and Melting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Hans J. Fecht
Hans J. Fecht*
Affiliation:
Universitfit Augsburg, Institut für Physik, D-8900 Augsburg, F.R.G.
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Abstract

A scenario has been developed combining the glass transition (liquid to glass) with the crystal-to glass transition. If the “melting” point of a crystalline solid solution is reduced to the ideal glass transition temperature a triple point is predicted between crystal, liquid and glass. Based on extrapolations of measured specific heat data of undercooled liquid glass-forming Au- Pb-Sb alloys the excess entropy is found to vanish close to the glass transition. On the other hand, the amorphization reaction of crystalline Fe2Er-hydrides is characterized by a lambda-type anomaly in the specific heat. The logarithmic temperature-dependence of the specific heat results from local fluctuations in the crystalline phase, rather than thermally activated lattice defects. These results suggest that glass formation from the liquid as well as the crystalline state is characterized by an underlying instability.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 205: Symposium F – Kinetics of Phase Transformations , 1990 , 289
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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