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Based on the experimentally established dependence of the melting temperature of a silicon nanocrystal on its size, it is shown that, as the size of a melting nanocrystal decreases, its shape also exhibits variation. Greater nanocrystals possess either rodlike or platelike shapes. As the nanocrystal size decreases, its shape transforms and approaches the shape of a cube.
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Original Russian Text © M.N. Magomedov, 2016, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2016, Vol. 42, No. 14, pp. 94–102.
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Magomedov, M.N. Size dependence of the shape of a silicon nanocrystal during melting. Tech. Phys. Lett. 42, 761–764 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785016070245
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