TY - JOUR
T1 - Structure of amorphous selenium studied by neutron diffraction
AU - Hansen, Flemming Yssing
AU - Knudsen, Torben Steen
AU - Carneiro, K.
N1 - Copyright (1975) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.
PY - 1975
Y1 - 1975
N2 - Neutron diffraction measurements on amorphous selenium have been performed at 293 and 80 K. Careful analyses of the instrumental corrections were made to avoid systematic errors in the measured structure factor S (kappa) in the wave vector region 0 ? kappa ? 12 Å−1. As a result of the data treatment, the neutron scattering cross sections of selenium are determined to be sigmacoh = 8.4±0.1 b and sigmainc = 0.1±0.1 b. Using the fact that S (kappa) for large kappa's is determined by the short distances in the sample, a new method for extrapolation of the experimental S (kappa) until convergence is proposed. This allows an accurate determination of g (r) showing peaks at distances that agree well with the previous x−ray experiment by Kaplow et al. for distances up to 11 Å. However, only partial agreement is obtained when finer details of g (r), e.g., the width of the first peak, are considered. Finally, we give a brief discussion of the different models for the structure of amorphous selenium, taking both diffraction measurements and thermodynamic considerations into account. The Journal of Chemical Physics is copyrighted by The American Institute of Physics.
AB - Neutron diffraction measurements on amorphous selenium have been performed at 293 and 80 K. Careful analyses of the instrumental corrections were made to avoid systematic errors in the measured structure factor S (kappa) in the wave vector region 0 ? kappa ? 12 Å−1. As a result of the data treatment, the neutron scattering cross sections of selenium are determined to be sigmacoh = 8.4±0.1 b and sigmainc = 0.1±0.1 b. Using the fact that S (kappa) for large kappa's is determined by the short distances in the sample, a new method for extrapolation of the experimental S (kappa) until convergence is proposed. This allows an accurate determination of g (r) showing peaks at distances that agree well with the previous x−ray experiment by Kaplow et al. for distances up to 11 Å. However, only partial agreement is obtained when finer details of g (r), e.g., the width of the first peak, are considered. Finally, we give a brief discussion of the different models for the structure of amorphous selenium, taking both diffraction measurements and thermodynamic considerations into account. The Journal of Chemical Physics is copyrighted by The American Institute of Physics.
U2 - 10.1063/1.430621
DO - 10.1063/1.430621
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0021-9606
VL - 62
SP - 1556
EP - 1565
JO - Journal of Chemical Physics
JF - Journal of Chemical Physics
IS - 4
ER -