Solid-liquid transition of metallic clusters. Occurrence of surface melting

✍ Scribed by R. Kofman; P. Cheyssac; R. Garrigos; Y. Lereah; G. Deutscher

• Book ID: 103893692
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 427 KB
• Volume: 157
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(89)90375-0

✦ Synopsis

Optical measurements have been performed to study the melting and solidification of distributions of small metallic particles embedded in a matrix. Dark field electron microscopy and microdiffraction have been used to show that the particles rotate in their host in a 20 K temperature interval just before melting. An interpretation related to premelting effect or surface melting is given.