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Surfaces, Electron and Ion Emission

Piezoquartz resonator as an in situ method for studying the phase transitions in thin metal and alloy films

M. M. Kolendovskii, S. I. Bogatyrenko, A. P. Kryshtal, N. T. Gladkikh

V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Abstract: A new method based on a quartz resonator is proposed to study the melting-solidification phase transformations in metal and alloy nanofilms. The melting-solidification temperature hysteresis is studied, and the supercoolings upon the solidification of bismuth and gold-germanium films on a carbon substrate are determined. The results obtained by the new method are shown to agree well with the reported data.

Received: 15.06.2011

 English version: Technical Physics, 2012, 57:6, 849–855

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