CRYSTAL GROWTH OF YBCO SUPERCONDUCTORS BY DIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION PROCESSING

Modelling of physical phenomena on Si melt during crystal growth process by Directional solidification method

Numerical simulation is a comprehensive tool in modern process development which is extensively used for promotion of crystal growth processes. Multi-crystalline silicon is an important material with advantages of low-production cost and high conversion efficiency of PV solar cells. The control of grains as well as the grain boundaries is particularly important to the crystal quality and thus t...

Crystal Growth and Dendritic Solidification

We present a numerical method which computes the motion of complex solid/liquid boundaries in crystal growth. The model we solve includes physical effects such as crystalline anisotropy, surface tension, molecular kinetics and undercooling. The method is based on two ideas. First, the equations of motion are recast as a single history-dependent boundary integral equation on the solid/liquid bou...

Crystal Growth Techniques for Layered Superconductors

Layered superconductors are attractive because some of them show high critical temperatures. While their crystal structures are similar, these compounds are composed of many elements. Compounds with many elements tend to be incongruent melting compounds, thus, their single crystals cannot be grown via the melt-solidification process. Hence, these single crystals have to be grown below the decom...

Cellular instabilities in directional solidification

2014 We have studied the morphology of the solid-liquid interface during the directional solidification of thin (5-150 03BCm) samples of a dilute binary mixture (CBr4/~ 0.1 % Br2) . Above a critical pulling speed, for a given temperature gradient and solute concentration, the interface, initially planar, breaks down into a periodic cellular pattern. The bifurcation from a planar to a cellular s...

Directional solidification of a faceted crystal. II. Phase dynamics of crenellated front patterns