Synthesis of Cu mono-component metallic glass by the deposition on amorphous SiO₂ substrate: a molecular dynamics study

2020/09/17 by Yang Yu, Yu, Yang
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #physics.chem-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2009.08056

arxiv created 2020/09/17 · arxiv updated 2020/09/18

Abstract

In this work, we simulated the physical vapor deposition (PVD) process of Cu atoms on the amorphous SiO₂ substrate. The resulting Cu thin layer exhibit amorphous structure. The Cu liquid quenching from 2000 K to 50 K was also simulated with different cooling rate to form the Cu metallic glass for comparison. The Cu glasses from the two different processes (PVD and quenching) revealed the same radial distribution function but different local structure from the Voronoi tessellation analysis. The PVD glass exhibit higher densities and lower potential energy compared with the melt-quenched counterpart, which corresponded to the properties of ultrastable glasses.

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