新型有机非线性光学晶体-L-苹果酸脲晶体生长的初步探讨

本文初步探讨了新型非线性光学晶体-L-苹果酸脲的晶体生长,研究结果表明,L-苹果酸脲晶体在甲醇、乙醇和水三种介质中的溶解度温度系数均较大,同温度下L-苹果酸脲晶体在水中的溶解度最大,无水甲醇次之,无水乙醇中最小.L-苹果酸脲晶体在无水甲醇中的成核自由能比在无水乙醇中的低得多,因此在无水甲醇中易于成核,晶核数多,晶体尺寸小,而在无水乙醇介质中,虽然成核相对比较困难一些,但有利于制备大的单晶,且发现低温有利于大晶体的生长.因此宜选择无水乙醇为晶体生长介质.L-苹果酸脲晶体在介质中以非均匀成核方式在试管壁成核长大,晶体呈棱柱状,生长过程中呈现台阶生长的特征.     

电光晶体硒酸氢铷(RHSe)的生长动力学

本文采用动态循环观察法测量了RHSe晶体在水溶液中不同过饱和度下主要显露晶面的生长速率.结果表明,RHSe晶体主要显露晶面的生长机制是多二维成核生长机制,在饱和点为38.00℃的溶液中,RHSe晶体的{111}和{101}晶面的临界过饱和度分别为1.01;和1.16;.实验过程中还发现,当过饱和度大于1.76;时,晶体生长速率太快而出现宏观缺陷,因而在生长RHSe单晶时,过饱和度应控制在1.76;以下.     

新型有机非线性光学材料L-酒石酸脲晶体生长研究

本文研究了有机非线性光学晶体L-酒石酸脲在过饱和溶液中的成核过程.测定了不同温度下L-酒石酸脲的溶解度和成核诱导期,计算了成核特征参数.讨论了不同温度、过饱和度对L-酒石酸脲成核诱导期的影响.研究表明L-酒石酸脲晶体的成核诱导期随着溶液温度和过饱和度的增大而减少.通过经典成核理论计算了L-酒石酸脲的固液表面张力、成核自由能和临界成核半径等系列成核参数.     

L-丙氨酸掺杂下ZTS晶体(100)面台阶动力学实时研究

利用光学显微镜对L-丙氨酸掺杂下ZTS晶体(100)面台阶推移进行了实时观察。测量了不同掺杂浓度、过饱和度及生长温度下的台阶平均推移速度。实验结果表明:随掺杂浓度的增加,台阶平均推移速度先增加后减小,在掺杂浓度为2mol%时,台阶平均推移速度最大;而随过饱和度的增加,台阶平均推移速度线性增加。计算了台阶动力学系数与单台阶的活化能,得到掺杂后,台阶动力学系数增大,单台阶活化能减小。运用台阶动力学系数的定义,计算得到掺杂与未掺杂ZTS晶体台阶活化能的范围。同时用红外光谱实验分析了L-丙氨酸在ZTS晶体生长过程中进入晶格,进而影响台阶推移速度。     

晶体生长机制和生长动力学的蒙特卡罗模拟研究

采用动力学蒙特卡罗方法,对在完整光滑界面上低过饱和度溶液中的晶体生长机制和动态过程进行计算机模拟,得到了晶体生长速率与溶液过饱和度之间的关系以及晶体生长的表面形态.对以二维成核为主要生长机制的动力学生长规律进行分析,发现了二维成核生长的生长死区以及单核生长转变为多核生长时的过饱和度临界值,讨论了热粗糙度、表面扩散、台阶平均高度以及表面尺寸对晶体平均生长速率的影响.     

KDP晶体中包裹体形成机制的探讨

本文介绍了包裹体对KDP晶体质量的影响,并从两个方面探讨了KDP晶体生长过程中包裹体的形成机制.通过分析KDP晶体表面原子结构研究了不同杂质的吸附情况以及杂质对生长台阶的阻碍作用,通过分析晶体生长过程中流体动力学和质量输运条件的变化研究了旋转晶体的流体切应力和表面过饱和度,结果表明吸附杂质对生长台阶的阻碍和表面过饱和度的不均匀造成了生长台阶的弯曲和宏观台阶的形成,导致生长台阶形貌的不稳定是包裹体形成的重要原因.     

蓝紫光倍频材料硫氰酸汞镉晶体生长动力学和机理的研究

利用倒置相差显微镜观察了用于蓝紫光倍频的硫氰酸汞镉晶体(CdHg(SCN)4)在3;的KCl溶液中的生长形貌:在(100)面上呈现为生长直线台阶列,在锥面上呈现生长丘.在溶液循环流动的情况下测量了晶体的生长速率,发现晶体在过饱和度低于2.5;时不生长.计算了晶体不同面的界面相变熵因子.通过三者综合分析得到晶体为多二维成核生长机制.     

不同pH值下ZTS晶体(100)面台阶生长动力学规律和位错缺陷的研究

通过利用光学显微镜,对不同pH值下ZTS晶体(100)面的台阶推移过程进行了实时观察,发现在同一过饱和度下,调高生长溶液的pH值会导致台阶推移速率降低;而调低pH值时,台阶的平均推移速率增大,当pH =4.2时,(100)面生长速度最快.计算出不同pH值下的台阶动力学系数βl和台阶活化能E的数值.对不同pH值下生长出的ZTS晶体的(100)面进行了位错缺陷观察,发现pH =4.2时,位错密度较低,有利于晶体生长质量的提高.     

晶体生长的台阶列运动的一个基本特点

本文介绍了用实时观察方法研究水溶液中晶体生长长机制的实验。通过对水溶液中ＣｄＩ２晶体的生长台阶运动的实时观察研究，首次提出了在过饱和度较小的条件下生长台阶列的间距和生长界面上环境相的过饱和度成反比的结论。本文还给出了在一定的限制条件下，台阶列运动的这一特点的理论推导。     

KDP晶体(101)面生长动力学研究

晶体法向生长速度是晶体生长动力学研究的-个重要参数.用激光偏振干涉法实现了KDP晶体锥面生长速度的实时测量,发现KDP晶体锥面生长过程中存在与柱面类似的死区,对传统降温法生长大尺寸KDP晶体和点籽晶快速生长技术中过饱和度的控制有重要指导意义.用螺旋位错模型讨论了锥面生长的动力学规律.计算了锥面台阶自由能和动力学系数.     

Growth Habit and Habit Variation of γ‐CuI Crystallites under Hydrothermal Conditions

The octahedra were observed in the γ CuI crystallites synthesized by hydrothermal method using 1.6g (C₂H₅OO)₂Cu and 2.66g KI as precursors at 200 °C for 12 hours in the de‐ionized water. The effect of additives on the morphology of γ‐CuI crystallites was investigated. Results show that the morphology of γ‐CuI crystallites prepared in the mixed solution of de‐ionized water and alcohol at 200 °C for 12 hours is the tetrahedron. In order to disclose the effect of the additive on the growth habit of γ‐CuI crystallites, the microcosmic growth mechanism of γ‐CuI crystal is investigated from the complex of I^‐ and Cu⁺ ions to each other. It is concluded that the effect of alcohol on the morphology of γ‐CuI crystallites is carried out through changing the relative rate of complex of anion and cation to each other at the interface. Based on the above analysis, the growth habit of γ‐CuI crystallites and the habit variation under hydrothermal conditions are explained reasonably.     

Improvement of growth habit and optical properties of rapidly grown KDP crystal by adding diethylene triamine pentacetate acid in growth solution

By altering the concentration of a new additive ‐ diethylene triamine pentacetate acid (DTPA) in the growth solution, a series of KDP crystals were obtained by the “point seed” rapid growth method. The growth rates up to about 20 mm/day. Effects of DTPA on the growth habit and optical properties of these as‐grown KDP crystals were investigated. The results reveal that, with the increase of DTPA concentration in growth solution, the contents of impurity metal ions incorporated into crystal and aspect ratio of crystal morphology were both decreased gradually, while the UV transmittance of crystal was enhanced continually. In the presence of moderate concentration of DTPA (100–200 ppm), the solution stability was increased and optical properties of crystal (including optical homogeneity, light scattering and laser damage threshold) were all improved. However excessive doping (>500 ppm) has opposite effects. The impact mechanism was also analyzed combining with the structure of KDP crystal and chemical characteristics of DTPA molecular.     

BPO4晶体的生长及孪晶缺陷分析

利用助熔剂法,采用顶部籽晶技术生长出新型非线光学晶体材料BPO4（简称BPO）晶体,用同步辐射白光X射线形貌术拍摄了（001）,（101）切片的形貌像,观察到了生长孪晶结构,从形貌像中可明显地观察到游离于主晶形貌像之外的孪晶形貌像,并从结构上解释了孪晶的形成原因。     

Rapid crystal growth without inherent supersaturation induced by nanoscale fluid flows?

Crystal growth is a process that only takes place under non‐equilibrium conditions and a necessary prerequisite is that the crystal is exposed to a phase that is supersaturated in the material the crystal is composed of, be it a solution, a vapour or a supercooled melt. In industrial mass crystallization the growth rate for a population of crystals (in suspension growth processes [1]) rarely exceeds mean linear velocities of 10^‐7 ms^‐1. Here we present a mass crystallization process which is accompanied by rapid crystal growth several orders of magnitude faster and into a region of solution that is without inherent supersaturation. The material investigated is a solid hydrate that exhibits a solution mediated phase transition to its anhydrous form in the presence of methanol [2]. The phase transition is initiated simply by placing an amount of hydrate crystals into the solvent and is characterized by the rapid emergence of needle‐shaped crystals. The needles emanate from the crystal faces of the hydrate crystals and grow into the solution, which is nominally free of the substance to be crystallized. The high growth rate of the crystals, which of the order of up to 10^‐4 ms^‐1 is surprising. Although rapid needle growth has been observed before [3‐9], to date a satisfactory explanation for needles growing under the abovementioned conditions is still outstanding. Based upon the topology of the crystals we propose a tentative mechanism for this phenomenon capable of explaining the unusually rapid growth and highlight those questions that need addressing in order to verify this mechanism. X‐ray powder diffraction is used to characterize the crystal phase of the needles; confocal fluorescence microscopy reveals that the needles are hollow. The width of these needles is between 0.5 and 5 μm, their length appears to be limited only by the amount of hydrate available for their formation. (© 2005 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Autodeformation bending of gypsum crystals grown under the conditions of counterdiffusion

The dynamics and kinetics of growth-induced bending of gypsum crystals grown from solution have been studied. Crystallization was performed by the method of chemical reaction under the conditions of component counterdiffusion. It is established that autodeformation bending occurs in the [001] direction at the growth front and is caused by cationic impurities. The crystal curvature depends on the anisotropy of growth rate and increases at lower supersaturations. The mechanism of growth-induced crystal bending is suggested which takes into account the heterometry stresses providing the appearance of a bending moment at the growth front.     

Unsteady-state transfer of impurities during crystal growth of sucrose in sugarcane solutions

In this work, we present growth rate data of sucrose crystals in the presence of impurities that can be used by both sugar technologists and crystal growth scientists. Growth rate curves measured in a pilot-scale evaporative crystallizer suggest a period of slow growth that follows the seeding of crystals into supersaturated technical solutions. The observed trend was enhanced by adding typical sugarcane impurities such as starch, fructose or dextran to the industrial syrups. Maximum growth rates of sucrose resulted at intermediate rather than high supersaturation levels in the presence of the additives. The effects of the additives on the sucrose solubility and sucrose mass transfer in solution were taken into account to explain the observed crystal growth kinetics. A novel mechanism was identified of unsteady-state adsorption of impurities at the crystal surface and their gradual replacement by the crystallizing solute towards the equilibrium occupation of the active sites for growth. Specifically designed crystallization experiments at controlled supersaturation confirmed this mechanism by showing increasing crystal growth rates with time until reaching a steady-state value for a given supersaturation level and impurity content.     

Understanding and Controlling the Morphology of ZnO Crystallites under Hydrothermal Conditions

The morphological features of ZnO crystallites influenced by solution basicity under hydrothermal conditions have been studied from the standpoint of the incorporation of the growth units. A crystal chemistry approach is developed to understand and thus to control a desirable morphology of the crystallites. The effects of the additive OH⁻ on the crystal morphology of ZnO crystallites are qualitatively but satisfactorily explained by a mechanism considering two aspects: (1) solution structures and the structural forms of growth units under a certain growth condition, i.e. the interactions between the solvent molecules and the growth units; and (2) the influence of the solvent molecules or additives on growth interfaces, particularly on two polar faces of ZnO crystallites in terms of the inhibition or promotion of the incorporation of various growth units depending on the solution basicity. Since the incorporation rates of the growth units are different on positive and negative polar faces, the relative growth rates of these faces are different and thus lead to the habit modifications. The approach clearly demonstrates that the hindrance of crystal growth is a consequence of surface adsorption processes.     

Rapid growth of KDP crystal from aqueous solutions with additives and its optical studies

Potassium Chloride (KCl) and Ethylene diamine tetraacetie acid (EDTA) as new additives were added into the KDP solutions in a small amount (5M% and 0.01M% respectively). The solubility curve and metastable zone width of KDP solution with 5M%KCl was determined and we explained the mechanism of rapid growth of KDP crystal with KCl additve. The clear transparent crystal of KDP with a dimension of 54 × 54 × 42 mm have been grown rapidly by cooling solution method in 2 days. The crystal grown from additives added solution was subjected to optical transmission and laser damage threshold studies as compared with the crystal grown by traditional growing method. (© 2005 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)