Slow dynamics of liquid Se studied by Infrared Photon Correlation Spectroscopy

We report on the study of the slow dynamics of supercooled and molten Selenium by means of dynamic light scattering. To achieve this in the present case, where the opaqueness of Se prevents visible light scattering measurements, we have developed a novel experimental setup using infrared radiation as the light source. By measuring the scattered intensity autocorrelation function we have been able to extract the average size of the Se clusters in the liquid state and determine the temperature dependence of the related diffusion coefficient which was found to exhibit Arrhenius behavior.