• Structure and properties of densified silica glass: characterizing the order within disorder 

      Akola, Jaakko; Onodera, Yohei; Kohara, Shinji; Salmon, Philip S.; Hirata, Akihiko; Nishiyama, Norimasa; Kitani, Suguru; Zeidler, Anita; Shiga, Motoki; Masuno, Atsunobu; Inoue, Hiroyuki; Tahara, Shuta; Polidori, Analisa; Fischer, Henry E.; Mori, Tatsuya; Mori, Seiji; Kawaji, Hitoshi; Kolesnikov, Alexander I.; Stone, Matthew B.; Tucker, Matthew G.; McDonnell, Marshall T.; Hannon, Alex C.; Hiraoka, Yasuaki; Obayashi, Ippei; Nakamura, Takenobu; Fujii, Yasuhiro; Ohara, Koji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Sakata, Osami (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The broken symmetry in the atomic-scale ordering of glassy versus crystalline solids leads to a daunting challenge to provide suitable metrics for describing the order within disorder, especially on length scales beyond ...
    • Very sharp diffraction peak in nonglass-forming liquid with the formation of distorted tetraclusters 

      Koyama, Chihiro; Tahara, Shuta; Kohara, Shinji; Onodera, Yohei; Småbråten, Didrik Rene; Selbach, Sverre Magnus; Akola, Jaakko; Ishikawa, Takehiko; Masuno, Atsunobu; Mizuno, Akitoshi; Okada, Junpei T.; Watanabe, Yuki; Nakata, Yui; Ohara, Koji; Tamaru, Haruka; Oda, Hirohisa; Obayashi, Ippei; Hiraoka, Yasuyuki; Sakata, Osami (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Understanding the liquid structure provides information that is crucial to uncovering the nature of the glass-liquid transition. We apply an aerodynamic levitation technique and high-energy X-rays to liquid (l)-Er2O3 to ...