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Onset of Rigidity in Steps in Chalcogenide Glasses

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Properties and Applications of Amorphous Materials

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The starting point to understand the physical behavior of crystalline solids is their crystallographic structure. Near phase transitions usually a change of structure occurs, an underlying crystal symmetry is broken, and an order parameter displays a specific power-law. Such effects in oxides have a rather rich history [1]. We are also beginning to recognize that phase separation on a nanoscale in doped crystalline semiconductors and oxides apparently is not that unusual, and that such delicate aspects of structure could play a role to understand the metal insulator transition [2] in Si and Ge and possibly the origin of high-T superconductivity [3] in the oxides.

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Boolchand, P., Selvanathan, D., Wang, Y., Georgiev, D.G., Bresser, W.J. (2001). Onset of Rigidity in Steps in Chalcogenide Glasses. In: Thorpe, M.F., Tichý, L. (eds) Properties and Applications of Amorphous Materials. NATO Science Series, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0914-0_8

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