Predicting new, stable materials and their properties is an important approach to accelerate
the innovation cycle. A major remaining challenge is the lack of experimental approaches to …

We present results on germanium solidified at high undercoolings using three techniques:
melt fluxing, containerless solidification in a drop-tube and pulsed laser surface quenching …

Excimer laser melting and lateral resolidification is demonstrated in 200 nm thick Cu and Au
elemental metal thin films encapsulated between Si O 2 layers. Projection irradiation is used …

The concept of metastability in alloy microstructures and phases is reviewed. A survey of the
temperature and composition dependence of the viscosity of liquid alloys is used in …

Our attempts to amorphize alloys of chromium and titanium by annealing the metastable bcc
β-phase as suggested in existing literature have not been successful. We report our results …

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The metal‐induced crystallization (MIC) of amorphous Ge (α‐Ge) has been studied in two
different Bi/α‐Ge bilayer film systems prepared by dc sputtering: films with nm‐size columnar …

The deposition of metallic thin films such as aluminum, titanium, gold, and platinum has
been the subject of intense research for the last few decades, especially for the metallization …

Thin films consisting of alternate layers of Ge and Sb are laser irradiated by single
nanosecond pulses from an excimer laser. RBS and CS-TEM are used to characterize the …

We have used two‐channel optical pyrometry to study the surface color temperature versus
time profiles of aluminum and tungsten irradiated with 100 ps, 5 ns, and 60–70 ns duration …