Study of specific heat and Gibb’s free energy of ternary chalcogenide glasses

Abstract

In this paper, an effort has been made to study the change in some thermodynamic parameters (say specific heat and Gibb’s free energy) of GeSeIn ternary chalcogenide glasses under non-isothermal conditions. Change in specific heat at glass transition temperature is a characteristics feature of glass. Gibb’s free energy is used as a criterion for glass stability. Gibb’s free energy difference between crystal and glass phase is the driving force for crystallization.