Spiral ribbon giant molecules morphologically analogous to crystalline whiskers are sufficient to explain the giant photocontraction observed in obliquely evaporated Ge-As-S-Se (but not Te) films. The relation between these anomalies and the bulk melt-quenched glass-forming tendency is explained in topological terms.
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Phillips et al. (1982) studied this question.