%0 Journal Article
%A Karmakar, Sabyasachi
%A Mukhopadhyay, Mrinmay Kumar
%A Sanyal, Milan
%A Meinhardt, Alexander
%A Keller, Thomas F.
%T Evidence of quadratic time dependence of the kinetics in a continuous order-disorder transition
%J Physical review / B
%V 111
%N 2
%@ 2469-9950
%C Woodbury, NY
%I Inst.
%M PUBDB-2025-02414
%P 024105
%D 2025
%X Kinetics of order-disorder transitions including melting in low-dimensional systems is theoretically predicted to be heterogeneous that start by nucleation in defect sites at lower than homogeneous bulk-melting temperature requiring substantially lower energy barrier. We probed kinetics of such transition in thin multilayered films using x-ray scattering and in situ atomic force microscopy (AFM) studies. X-ray results show linear increase with time in in-plane separation of ordered domains while in situ AFM measurements show a linear increase in height of disordered domains with time. The structure factor of the diffraction peak reduces linearly with square of time as the material disorder.
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%R 10.1103/PhysRevB.111.024105
%U https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/633812