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Lead bromide crystal growth from the melt and characterization: the effects of nonlinear thermal boundary conditions on convection during physical vapor crystal growth of mercurous bromide

  • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
  • Abbr : J. Korean Cryst. Growth Cryst. Technol.
  • 2004, 14(4), pp.160-168
  • Publisher : The Korea Association Of Crystal Growth, Inc.
  • Research Area : Engineering > Materials Science and Engineering

Geug Tae Kim 1 권무현 2

1한남대학교
2울산대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

We investigate the effects of solutal convection on the crystal growth rate in a horizontal configuration for diffusive-convection conditions and purely diffusion conditions achievable in a low gravity environment for a nonlinear thermal gradient. It is concluded that the solutally-driven convection due to the disparity in the molecular weights of the component A (Hg2Br2) and B (CO) is stronger than thermally-driven convection for both the nonlinear and the linear thermal profiles, corresponding to Grt = 8.5?03, Grs = 1.05?05. For both solutal and thermal convection processes, the growth rates for the linear thermal profile (conducting walls) are greater than for the nonlinear case. With the temperature humps, there are found to be observed in undersaturation for diffusive-convection processes ranging from DAB = 0.087 to 0.87. For the vertical configurations, the diffusion mode is so much dominated that the growth rate and interfacial distribution is nearly regardless of the gravitational accelerations. Also, the diffusion mode is predominant over the convection for the gravity levels less than 0.1 g0 for the horizontally oriented configuration.

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