Seeing silicon crystal transform to amorphous

Monday, September 19, 2016 - 16:01 in Physics & Chemistry

A team of researchers led by the University of Pittsburgh's Scott X. Mao has observed at atomic scale a previously unknown mechanism of shear-driven crystal to amorphously transform in silicon. The paper "In situ observation of shear-driven amorphization in silicon crystals," published in Nature Nanotechnology, represents a milestone in the in situ study of amorphization of silicon.

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