TY - JOUR
T1 - Confinement-induced freezing and the Lindemann criterion
AU - Tkachenko, Alexei V.
AU - Rabin, Yitzhak
PY - 1997/8
Y1 - 1997/8
N2 - A simple model of confinement-induced freezing in thin liquid layers is presented. Under boundary conditions of vanishing displacement field at the walls, confinement suppresses the amplitude of fluctuations in a solid film below a critical value determined by the Lindemann criterion of melting. The resulting increase of the melting temperature compared to that of a bulk solid, is estimated and the connection with experiments is discussed.
AB - A simple model of confinement-induced freezing in thin liquid layers is presented. Under boundary conditions of vanishing displacement field at the walls, confinement suppresses the amplitude of fluctuations in a solid film below a critical value determined by the Lindemann criterion of melting. The resulting increase of the melting temperature compared to that of a bulk solid, is estimated and the connection with experiments is discussed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0031209284&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/s0038-1098(97)00189-0
DO - 10.1016/s0038-1098(97)00189-0
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AN - SCOPUS:0031209284
SN - 0038-1098
VL - 103
SP - 361
EP - 364
JO - Solid State Communications
JF - Solid State Communications
IS - 6
ER -