Formation of a metastable state of a liquid phase in the application of nanosecond laser pulses to GaSb
Aver'yanova M. Yu. , Alferov Zh. I. , Karpov S. Yu. , Koval'chuk Yu. V. , Myachin V. E., Pogorel'skii Yu. V., Sokolov I. A., Fokin G. A.
The formation of metastable and stable states of liquid GaSb has been observed during the application of nanosecond laser pulses. The optical properties of the stable state correspond to those of the equilibrium GaSb melt.