BARC/PUB/2018/1107

 
 

Signature of Meyer-Neldel compensation rule in iso-conversional crystallization under the influence of γ-ray irradiation

 
     
 
Author(s)

Srivastava, A.; Sharma, S. D.; Mehta, N.
(RP&AD)

Source

Ceramics International, 2018. Vol. 44: pp. 20827-20834

ABSTRACT

In the current article, the influence of three different doses of gamma-rays on the thermally assisted crystal growth in a novel ternary chalcogenide glassy Se78Te20Sn2 semiconductor has been reported in terms of the recrystallization.The iso-conversional kinetic approach is used in the present study. The variation of crystal growth rate with temperature obeys the Arrhenius relation for all the doses of gamma-rays irradiation. Further analysis confirms that pre-factor K0 of crystal growth rate and the corresponding energy ΔE involved in thermally governed crystallization follows Meyer-Neldel compensation rule (MNCR). Further, we have observed a linear correlation i.e., Further Meyer-Neldel compensation rule (FMNCR) between Meyer-Neldel pre-factor K00 and Meyer-Neldel energy kT0. The observed correlations between these significant parameters (MNCR between K0 & ΔE and FMNCR between K00 & kT0) may open a new gateway for revealing the external effects on crystal growth rate during the iso-conversional analysis of crystallization kinetics.

 
 
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