Influence of Free Volumes on Functional Properties of Modified Chalcogenide Glasses and Oxide Ceramics

Abstract

An important area of electronic technology is the use of physical phenomena on nano- and subnanometer levels of structural organization of functional materials [1–3]. Transformation to these levels is achieved due to nanostructurization, i.e., formation of nanoobjects with the individual components (atoms or molecules) by their agglomeration or massive dissociation into individual components [4, 5]. In the case of disordered solids with full or partial absence of atomic structural correlations and excess free-volume configuration entropy or enthalpy, these processes occur in transformation of atom and void structures.