Dislocation and grain-boundary melting are studied in three dimensions using the phase field crystal method. Isolated dislocations are found to melt radially outward from their core, as the localized excess elastic energy drives a power-law divergence in the melt radius. Dislocations within low angle to intermediate angle grain boundaries melt similarly until an angle-dependent first-order wett...

A mathematical model that explores the basic transport phenomena in a Czochralski process, their interaction and influence on the growth of high quality oxide crystals is presented. Rare earth garnets YAG and Nd-doped YAG are considered as representative oxide materials for the purpose of modeling and numerical simulation. The model proposed is evolutionary in time, and axisymmetric in space. A...

We analyze the effect of elastic stresses on the thermodynamic driving force and the rate of crystal growth in glass-forming liquids. In line with one of the basic assumptions of the classical theory of nucleation and growth processes it is assumed that the composition of the clusters does not depend significantly on their sizes. Moreover, stresses we assume to be caused by misfit effects due t...

Cadmium zinc telluride crystals of 4.8 cm in diameter grown by the boron oxide encapsulated vertical Bridgman technique exhibit good structural quality with large grains and low dislocation density. However, ingots contain Te inclusions, which are trapped at growth interface during crystallization process. Global modeling furnace was applied order to investigate temperature gradients evolution ...

This work presents the synthesis and studies of a red-NIR luminescent liquid crystal compound based on an octahedral metallic cluster core orthogonally bounded to six non-mesogenic organic ligands. It evidences synergetic effects between the organic and inorganic parts of the hybrid, resulting in the generation of liquid crystal properties on cooling from the isotropic melt.

By using the combined approaches of microcalorimetric analysis and polarizing microscopy, the crystal-liquid crystal-isotropic melt phase transition of major phospholipids (phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine) and glycolipids (monogalactosyldiacylglycerol and digalactosyldiacylglycerol) isolated from marine seagrass Zostera marina were investigated. Here we discuss the results in v...