TY - JOUR
T1 - Fluctuations, Lindemann criterion and liquid-solid transition in thin films
AU - Tkachenko, Alexei V.
AU - Rabin, Yitzhak
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
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.
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AN - SCOPUS:0030706955
SN - 0272-9172
VL - 463
SP - 293
EP - 298
JO - Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings
JF - Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings
T2 - Proceedings of the 1996 MRS Fall Meeting
Y2 - 2 December 1996 through 5 December 1996
ER -