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Transient Mesoscopic Immiscibility, Viscosity Anomaly, and High Internal Pressure at the Semiconductor–Metal Transition in Liquid Ga 2 Te 3

Chris Benmore
Takeshi Usuki
Koji Ohara
Andrey Tverjanovich
Maria Bokova

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Gallium tellurides appear to be promising phase-change materials (PCMs) of the next generation for brain-inspired computing and reconfigurable optical metasurfaces. They are different from the benchmark PCMs because of sp3 gallium hybridization in both cubic Ga2Te3 and amorphous pulsed laser deposition (PLD) films. Liquid Ga2Te3 also shows a viscosity η(T) anomaly just above melting when η(T) first increases and only then starts decreasing. We used high-energy X-ray diffraction to observe a transient mesoscopic immiscibility that suggested dense metallic liquid droplets in a semiconducting melt. The η(T) shape was consistent with this finding. A vanishing first sharp diffraction peak that also shifts to a higher Q indicates a high internal pressure in the metallic melt, which produces a remarkable asymmetry of the Ga–Te nearest neighbor distances and is reminiscent of high-pressure rhombohedral Ga2Te3. The observed phenomena provide a realistic scenario for a fast, multilevel SET–RESET response, which also unravels similar trends in the purported density-driven liquid polyamorphism of water, phosphorus, sulfur, and other materials.
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hal-04295264 , version 1 (20-11-2023)

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Mohammad Kassem, Chris Benmore, Takeshi Usuki, Koji Ohara, Andrey Tverjanovich, et al.. Transient Mesoscopic Immiscibility, Viscosity Anomaly, and High Internal Pressure at the Semiconductor–Metal Transition in Liquid Ga 2 Te 3. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2022, 13 (46), pp.10843-10850. ⟨10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02899⟩. ⟨hal-04295264⟩

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