{"title":"Determination of silicon's melting temperature by employing Fan's formula and 37 % rule","authors":"Bruno Ullrich , Mithun Bhowmick","doi":"10.1016/j.ssc.2025.115917","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>By employing the Fan equation in conjunction with the 37 % rule, we introduce a mathematical method to predict the melting temperature of semiconductors. The calculation does not require detailed knowledge about the material, whilst the required parameters are rather determined by the fit of the measured band gap energy variations vs. temperature. Using Si as test material, we established a melting temperature of 1665 K with an uncertainty of 121 K.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":430,"journal":{"name":"Solid State Communications","volume":"401 ","pages":"Article 115917"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Solid State Communications","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038109825000924","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"PHYSICS, CONDENSED MATTER","Score":null,"Total":0}
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By employing the Fan equation in conjunction with the 37 % rule, we introduce a mathematical method to predict the melting temperature of semiconductors. The calculation does not require detailed knowledge about the material, whilst the required parameters are rather determined by the fit of the measured band gap energy variations vs. temperature. Using Si as test material, we established a melting temperature of 1665 K with an uncertainty of 121 K.
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