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Changes in capacitance of amorphous Se:As alloy films during structural relaxation below the glass transition temperature

 

作者: M. Abkowitz,   D. F. Pochan,   J. M. Pochan,  

 

期刊: Journal of Applied Physics  (AIP Available online 1982)
卷期: Volume 53, issue 6  

页码: 4173-4179

 

ISSN:0021-8979

 

年代: 1982

 

DOI:10.1063/1.331240

 

出版商: AIP

 

数据来源: AIP

 

摘要:

Reversible hysteresis behavior of capacitance and ac conductance of amorphous Se:As alloy films (alloy range 0–4% As) below the glass transition temperature (Tg) is observed when measurements are carried out at fixed frequency in the temperature scan mode over an experimental range encompassingTg. In this measurement mode, annealing effects which follow either cycling or film formation by evaporation can be continuously monitored, via film capacitance, as the film undergoes kinetically arrested isothermal relaxation toward a quasistable state. Arsenic addition to amorphous Se alters many of its physical properties. For example, in a previous study of the same series of films, it was found that both the dielectric increment measured just above their respectiveTg’s and the widths of the associated relaxation distribution function varied significantly with composition. In the present study, dielectric and thermodynamic measurements indicate that arsenic addition to amorphous Se significantly slows the rate of structural relaxation near room temperature (?15 K below respectiveTg’s). However, it is found that the shape of the capacitance relaxation function, associated in this case with structural relaxation belowTg, is relatively insensitive to alloy composition. The changes in room temperature relaxation, reflected in capacitance measurements, can in fact be adequately accounted for, phenomenologically, solely in terms of the shift inTginduced by arsenic alloying. It is suggested (1) that dielectric relaxation in the melt aboveTgand structural relaxation during annealing belowTgare controlled by a different set of dynamic processes or (2) progressive arsenic alloying skews the relaxation distribution function so that the very low frequency‐spectral components which dominate relaxation belowTgremain unaffected.

 

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