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DY: Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 31: Glasses Ib (joined session FV DF/DY)
DY 31.3: Talk
Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 10:45–11:00, HSZ/403
Thermodynamic properties of the Si/B/N-system - a computer simulation study. — •Alexander Hannemann, J. Christian Schön, and Martin Jansen — MPI f. Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstr. 1, 70569 Stuttgart
We present results on the thermodynamic properties of the Si3B3N7 system. Extensive NVT MC-simulations at many different volumes and temperatures show that the system should possess a critical temperature Tcrit ≈ 3700 K and a critical pressure of pcrit≈ 0.7 GPa. At elevated pressures (≈ 5 GPa) our results suggest that the sytem undergoes an ergodic to non-ergodic transition at a glass transition temperature TG≈ 2000 K. In the non-ergodic regime the system is amorphous.
Experimentally the amorphous Si3B3N7 system has an unusually low density of ≈ 1.9 g/cm3, compared to the weighted sum of the crystalline binary phases h-BN and β− Si3N4 (≈ 2.8 g/cm3). One possible explanation is the existence of nanovoids. We investigated the stability of voids of various sizes by NpT-MC-simulation for large systems. For temperatures T<TG, voids are stable on the time scale of our NpT-MC simulation, while for temperatures T>TG these voids are destroyed.