Theory of phase transitions in disordered crystal solids

Solid-state amorphization of a crystalline solid to an amorphous phase is extensively studied as a first order phase transition at low temperature for almost thirty years. In this dissertation, we report the recent progress on phenomenological models employed for thermodynamic description of macrosc...

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Main Author: Li, Huaming
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29707