Structural and electronic transformations of GeSe₂ glass under high pressures studied by X-ray absorption spectroscopy.

ABSTRACT: Pressure-induced transformations in an archetypal chalcogenide glass (GeSe₂) have been investigated up to 157 GPa by X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Ge and Se K-edge XAS data allowed simultaneous tracking of the correlated local structural and electronic changes at both Ge and Se sites. Thanks to the simultaneous analysis of extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) signals of both edges, reliable quantitative information about the evolution of the first neighbor Ge-Se distribution could be obtained. It also allowed to account for contributions of the Ge-Ge and Se-Se bond distributions (chemical disorder). The low-density to high-density amorphous-amorphous transformation was found to occur within 10 to 30 GPa pressure range, b

SUBMITTER: Mijit E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10998580 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature