Abstract

ABSTRACT Kinetic analysis of thermally induced processes was carried out in Cux(As2Se3)100-x glass with high copper content, x = 20 and 25 at.%. Non-isothermal differential scanning calorimetry at different heating rates was used to analyze the glass-transition and crystallization processes. It was shown that the glass-transition temperature increases with the increase in the copper content and that the examined glasses during the glass transition process do not show large configurational changes in the structure. Apparent activation energy of crystallization was determined using Kissinger method. In the composition with 25 at.% of copper the crystallization of three structural units was detected: CuAsSe2, Cu3AsSe4 and Cu2Se. Analysis of the crystallization mechanism and determination of parameters that depend on the morphology of nucleation and growth showed that volume nucleation and three-dimensional growth occur with a constant number of nucleation centers. Isoconversional analysis showed that the activation energy does not change significantly during the crystallization process.

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