Growth and melting behaviour of thin in films on Ge(100)

Evidence for liquid indium nanoparticles on Ge(001) at room temperature

“…Both epilayer and substrate are elemental; no In-Ge compounds are known to exist in the bulk binary alloy phase diagram, and there are no reports of In-Ge immiscibility. 4 It was found that In grows three dimensionally ͑3D͒ at room temperature. The slightly nonideal aspect of this system is that In is tetragonal, rather than cubic, in structure: its space group is I4/mmm, which one might describe as ''body centered tetragonal;'' the c and a axis lattice constants are 4.959 and 3.252 Å, respectively.…”

“…2 Ge crystallizes in the diamond structure with a lattice constant of 5.646 Å. 4 Rich et al performed core-level spectroscopy of In on Ge͑001͒ using synchrotron radiation. 2, 3 Krausch et al investigated the growth and melting behavior of thin In films on Ge͑001͒.…”

Melting and surface melting of low-dimensional In crystals

“…Although all of the above melting related phenomena have been modeled separately by a series of related models of present authors [3,[5][6][7], a unified thermodynamic treatment for these phenomena and their relationship has not been carried out. Since there are abundant experimental results with above melting phenomena for the semi-metal In [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17], a unified model description for it could identify the internal relationship of those models and further reveal the physical nature of those experimental results.…”

Zipper model for the melting of thin films

“…The comparison is fair, although some discrepancies are seen. Figure 3 compares experimental data of the melting point of indium on a substrate of germanium [14]. The curve in Fig.…”