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Fluctuations, Lindemann Criterion and Liquid-Solid Transition in Thin Films
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011
Abstract
A simple model of confinement-induced freezing in thin liquid layers is presented. Under boundary conditions of vanishing displacement field at the walls, confinement suppresses the amplitude of fluctuations in a solid film below a critical value determined by the Lindemann criterion of melting. The resulting increase of the melting temperature compared to that of a bulk solid, is estimated and the connection with experiments is discussed.
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