Open AccessDiffraction Studies of Glasses, Liquids and Nanoclusters
Author(s) -
M. Castro-Colín,
Wolfgang Donner,
Stephen C. Moss
Publication year - 2005
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/838666
Subject(s) - nanoclusters , amorphous solid , materials science , polyamorphism , diffraction , substrate (aquarium) , crystal (programming language) , crystallography , phase (matter) , translational symmetry , chemical physics , nanotechnology , condensed matter physics , optics , chemistry , physics , computer science , geology , programming language , oceanography , organic chemistry
Amorphous SiO{sub 2} is classically understood as a continuous random network forming glass. Typically amorphous materials possess no translational symmetry, which is the signature of a crystal. Our interest in investigating SiO{sub 2}, grown as a thin film (100, 500 {angstrom}) on Si(001), is to observe how this particular amorphous phase is able to couple to the crystalline substrate and reflect a peculiar degree of order
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