On the paradoxical relation between the melting temperature and forbidden energy gap of nanoparticles
- 2 August 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 133 (5), 054502
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3466920
Abstract
We comment on the paradox that seems to exist about a correlation between the size-dependent melting temperature and the forbidden energy gap of nanoparticles. By analyzing the reported expressions for the melting temperature and the band gap of nanoparticles, we conclude that there exists a relation between these two physical quantities. However, the variations of these two quantities with size for semiconductors are different from that of metals.Keywords
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