Publication Date:
2019-07-10
Description:
It has been demonstrated in floating-zone configurations utilizing silicone oil and nitrate salts that mechanically induced vibration effectively minimizes detrimental, gravity independent, thermocapillary flow. The processing parameters leading to crystal improvement and aspects of the on-going modeling effort are discussed. Plans for applying the crystal growth technique to commercially relevant materials, e.g., silicon, as well as the value of processing in a microgravity environment are presented.
Keywords:
Materials Processing
Type:
NASA Microgravity Materials Science Conference; 283-288; NASA/CP-1999-209092
Format:
application/pdf
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