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Explosive crystallization in amorphous CuTi thin films: a molecular dynamics study

S. A. RogachevFlorence BarasAlexander S. RogachevOlivier Politano

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010302 applied physicsMaterials scienceAmorphous metalExplosive materialNucleation02 engineering and technology021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyCondensed Matter Physics01 natural sciencesElectronic Optical and Magnetic MaterialsAmorphous solidlaw.inventionMolecular dynamicsDevitrificationChemical physicslaw0103 physical sciencesMaterials ChemistryCeramics and Composites[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-CHEM-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Chemical Physics [physics.chem-ph]Thin filmCrystallization0210 nano-technologyComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS

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Abstract Molecular dynamic simulation was used to study mechanism of self-propagating waves of explosive crystallization (devitrification) in the CuTi metallic glass. Processes in thin rectangular samples composed of one to two million atoms were simulated and compared with experimental data. It was shown that the nucleation of primary crystalline clusters occurs homogeneously due to spontaneous fluctuations of atomic structure; the clusters not

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2018.10.040