Quasielastic Neutron Scattering of Liquid Te50Se50 in the Semiconductor-to-Metal Transition Range

Ayano Chiba; Yoshinori Ohmasa; Makoto Yao; Oleg Petrenko; Yukinobu Kawakita

doi:10.1143/JPSJ.71.504

Quasielastic Neutron Scattering of Liquid Te₅₀Se₅₀ in the Semiconductor-to-Metal Transition Range

Ayano Chiba, Yoshinori Ohmasa, Makoto Yao, Oleg Petrenko, Yukinobu Kawakita

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Abstract

We have carried out neutron scattering experiments for liquid Te ₅₀Se₅₀ at 700K (semiconducting regime), 900K (transition regime) and 1100K (metallic regime). The quasielastic scattering peak is comparatively narrow at the peak positions of S(Q). A remarkable increase in the peak width is observed near the first minimum of S(Q), when the semiconductor-to-metal transition occurs. Since the first peak of S(Q) in this system proves to mainly reflect the inter-chain correlation and the second peak to the intra-chain correlation, the observed broadening may suggest frequent bond-switching between the chains in the metallic regime.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	504-508
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Volume	71
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.71.504
Publication status	Published - 2002 Feb 1

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Keywords

Dynamic structure
Interchain correlation
Liquid
Neutron scattering
Selenium
Semiconductor-to-metal transition
Tellurium

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Chiba, A., Ohmasa, Y., Yao, M., Petrenko, O., & Kawakita, Y. (2002). Quasielastic Neutron Scattering of Liquid Te₅₀Se₅₀ in the Semiconductor-to-Metal Transition Range. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 71(2), 504-508. https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.71.504

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