THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF InP CRYSTAL GROWTH EXPERIMENT PERFORMED ON-BOARD RUSSIAN FOTON-11 SATELLITE
Traveling heater method (THM) experiments on InP crystal growth from indium solution (SKAT-FD) were performed during the Russian FOTON-11 mission in October 1997. The aim of these experiments was to ascertain the effectiveness of controlling heat and mass transfer in the liquid phase by applying a r...
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Published in | Acta astronautica Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 79 - 85 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Elsevier Ltd
01.01.2001
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Summary: | Traveling heater method (THM) experiments on InP crystal growth from indium solution (SKAT-FD) were performed during the Russian FOTON-11 mission in October 1997. The aim of these experiments was to ascertain the effectiveness of controlling heat and mass transfer in the liquid phase by applying a rotating magnetic field (RMF). As an effort to understand the parameters influencing the crystal growth a mathematical model was developed for numerical simulation of these experiments. The SKAT-FD crystals were grown with RMF at an induction of 1 and 2 mT. As the calculations show, such magnetic fields influence remarkably the hydrodynamics of the melt, and consequently, the growth process. The change of the magnetic induction value (or switching off the RMF) led to an abrupt change of the growth rate, measured from artificial dopant striations produced in the growing crystals by the heat-pulse technique. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0094-5765 1879-2030 |
DOI: | 10.1016/S0094-5765(00)00143-0 |