改进热交换法生长蓝宝石晶体的气泡研究

采用改进的热交换法生长的蓝宝石晶体,气泡是其主要缺陷之一.本文采用数值模拟研究了晶体生长过程中氦气流量对坩埚内温场、固液界面形状的影响.并结合晶体生长实验结果,分析了在实际的晶体生长过程中,氦气流量的线性增加对晶体内气泡的尺寸、形态和分布的影响.     

蓝宝石晶体热性能的各向异性对SAPMAC法晶体生长的影响

采用有限元法对冷心放肩微量提拉法蓝宝石晶体生长过程中晶体内的温度、应力分布进行了模拟计算,结合实验结果讨论了蓝宝石晶体热性能的各向异性对晶体生长的影响.研究结果表明,对于冷心放肩微量提拉蓝宝石晶体生长系统,较大的轴向热导率有利于提高晶体的生长速率和界面稳定性,而稍大的径向热导率则有利于保持微凸的生长界面.晶体内的热应力受径向热膨胀系数的影响显著,随着径向热膨胀系数的增大而增大,最大热应力总是出现在籽晶与新生晶体的界面区域.在实验中选α轴为结晶取向,成功生长出了直径达230mm、高质量蓝宝石晶体.     

KDP晶体缺陷对生长应力分布的影响

本文采用有限元法分析了不同尺寸、形状的晶体缺陷对大口径KDP晶体生长应力分布的影响.结果表明,晶体中的缺陷导致了晶体内部应力集中,且应力集中程度与缺陷尺寸、晶体生长尺寸呈反向变化,而最大主应力与缺陷尺寸、晶体生长尺寸呈正向变化.当缺陷含有棱边或尖角时,应力集中程度和最大主应力值都明显增加.由于KDP晶体易脆性开裂,随着最大主应力值的增大,开裂机率也增大.     

运用数值模拟技术改进VGF法生长GaAs晶体

在VGF法生长GaAs晶体的过程中固液界面凹向晶体,很容易在坩埚圆锥面处生长多晶.本文采用专业晶体生长模拟软件CrysVUn对实验温场进行了计算机模拟并提出改进方案,把底加热器取消并在坩埚底部加入氦气冷源,底部结构类似于热交换法系统.这样改变热场结构,得到凸向熔体的固液界面.     

冷心放肩微量提拉法大尺寸蓝宝石单晶生长过程的模拟分析

利用数值模拟方法计算了冷心放肩微量提拉法(SAPMAC)蓝宝石晶体生长过程.结合晶体直径变化、裂纹出现位置与延续方向、晶体透明性等实验现象,通过与提拉法、温梯法、坩埚移动法等相对比,分析了冷心放肩微量提拉法晶体生长各阶段的工艺特点,并根据模拟计算结果对晶体生长系统和晶体生长控制工艺进行了改进.分别利用增大热交换器的散热参数、降低加热温度、改进降温曲线、调节外加轴向和径向温度梯度的方式来实现对晶体生长的引晶、放肩、等径和收尾控制.通过实验比较证明了改进后的晶体生长系统和晶体生长控制工艺能够生长出性能较好的大尺寸蓝宝石晶体.     

KDP晶体生长过程中溶液稳定性的研究

在KDP晶体生长过程中,溶液的稳定性对KDP晶体的光学质量影响较大.溶液的稳定性是多种因素共同作用的结果.本文主要研究了过饱和KDP溶液中晶胚的分布情况、降温过程中晶体生长驱动力与降温速度之间的关系,并分析了KDP晶体实际生长过程中影响溶液稳定性的主要因素.我们认为,通过改善KDP晶体生长过程中溶液的稳定性,并与其它措施和技术相结合,是提高KDP晶体光学质量的有效途径.     

液面位置对φ300mm硅单晶固液界面形状影响的数值计算

数值模拟技术已经成为分析和优化工业化晶体生长工艺必不可少的工具.本文利用有限元分析软件计算了φ300 mm直拉硅单晶生长过程中,不同液面位置时的晶体固液界面形状,模拟计算考虑了热传导、辐射、气流等物理现象,分析了晶体长度和液面位置对晶体生长界面形状的影响,得出了随着晶体长度的增加固液界面的凸度会增大的规律.     

传统法KH2PO4(KDP)晶体生长温场和速度场的数值模拟研究

在不同转速下用传统法生长了KDP晶体,并根据生长槽的实际情况,建立了三维数学模型.利用有限容积法,对晶体生长槽内的速度场和温度场进行了数值模拟,分析了不同晶体转速和晶体生长对速度场和温度场的影响规律.结果表明,随着晶体转速的增大,溶液流速越来越大,晶体生长更快,杂晶减少;较高转速(55 r/min和77r/min)较于较低转速(9.0～40 r/min)更有利于晶体生长.     

旋转对Cz法硅晶生长过程中热输运和熔体流动影响的数值模拟

建立了一个120 kg单晶炉的二维轴对称全局模型,分别对无旋转、加入晶体旋转、加入坩埚旋转、同时加入晶体旋转和坩埚旋转的四种工况展开了数值模拟研究.得到了晶体旋转及坩埚旋转对晶体生长过程的拉晶功率、炉内温度分布和熔体流动的影响;得到了不同晶体长度下拉晶炉内的温度分布以及熔体流动的变化规律.结果显示,加入晶体旋转对晶体生长过程的拉晶功率、温度分布和熔体流动的影响小于坩埚旋转的影响;随着晶体长度的增加,晶体旋转及坩埚旋转对温度分布和熔体流动的影响不断减小.因此在单晶炉设计和优化过程中应考虑整个晶体生长过程.     

应变对硅晶体生长影响的分子动力学模拟研究

基于Tersoff势描述的硅原子间相互作用,通过分子动力学方法模拟考察了在垂直于生长方向上分别对晶体施加了不同应变时,硅沿[100]和[112]晶向的晶体生长.结果显示,在压应变条件下,随着应变的增大晶体生长速率减小;而在拉应变条件下,在小应变范围内,晶体生长速率随应变增大并不减小,甚至还可能增大,只有当应变达到一定程度时,晶体生长速率才会随着应变的增大而减小;拉应变对[112]方向生长中液-固界面的形态也产生了显著影响.     

On the inhomogeneity of the transition surface layer of the solid core of the earth

Different geophysical data and conclusions of theoretical models, which can give information about the behavior of the solid and liquid cores of the Earth as well as about the existence of a transition layer as a temperature-hysteresis region at a relatively weak first-order phase transition, are compared. It is concluded that liquid inclusions inevitably exist in this region; these inclusions are involved (due to the complex convective processes occurring in the liquid core) in the transport of light materials from some areas of the solid-core surface. The porosity and permeability of the transition layer determine the seismic acoustic inhomogeneities in these areas, which contact the convective flows in the liquid core. In particular, this explains the well-known ??east-west?? effect. Obviously, the model of the crystalline core is not the only possible alternative for a model of a core with a metallic glasslike structure.     

On the role of the porous shell of the solid core of the earth in the anomalous heat and mass flow to the mantle

The model of the pressure-induced first-order phase transition of a metal melt to the metallicglass state considers a thermodynamically nonequilibrium porous near-surface shell of the solid core of the Earth, which contacts cyclonic vortices in the liquid core. Anomalous flows of heat and light-material mass to the mantle from the solid core at these contact points are calculated. These anomalous flows are shown to be comparable with the observed ones under the assumption of a rapid increase in the melt viscosity at pressures of 1–10 Mbar, which is characteristic of a solid core. In this case, the porous layer permeability may be very low.     

Influence of the Crystal Structure of the Nucleus on the Morphology of t-ZnO Tetrapods

Crystallography Reports - A new approach to simulating the morphology of hierarchical nanocrystals has been proposed on the example of ZnO nanotetrapods. Within this approach, twinning is...     

Features of the magnetic state of the layered Fe-V nanostructure of the superconductor-ferromagnet type

The magnetic state of the V(39 nm)/20 [V(3 nm)/Fe(3 nm)] nanostructure has been investigated by polarized neutron reflectometry in the temperature range from 1.6 to 30 K in magnetic fields from 0.2 to 15 kOe. The data obtained indicate that the superconductivity of vanadium layers may affect magnetic ordering both over the depth of the structure and in its plane.     

Study of the influence of the rare-earth elements on the properties of lead iodide

Lead iodide (PbI₂) shows excellent electronic properties for detection of ionizing radiation. We report the introduction of rare-earth elements and other elements as admixtures during synthesis to study their influence on the quality of single crystals. Synthesized material as well as single crystals have been characterized by measurements of electrical resistivity and low-temperature photo luminescence and index of refraction. The structural quality with respect to polytypes was analysed by electron back scatter diffraction. Makyoh topography was applied for surface studies.     

Effect of the temperature on the TMOS sono-hydrolysis and a study of the structure of the resulting aged sonogels

The effect of temperature on the oxalic acid catalyzed sono-hydrolysis of tetramethoxysilane (TMOS) was studied by means of a heat flux calorimetric method. The activation energy of the process was measured as (24.5 ± 0.8) kJ/mol in the temperature range between 10 and 50 °C. The structural characteristics of the resulting sonogels, after long period of aging in saturated conditions, were studied by means of small angle X-ray scattering. The structure can be described as formed by ∼2.7 nm mean size mass fractal-like aggregates (clusters) of primary silica particles of ∼0.3 nm mean size, all imbibed in a liquid phase. The average mass fractal dimension of the clusters was found to be 2.58. The primary particle density was estimated as 2.23 g/cm³, in good agreement with the value frequently quoted for fused silica. The volume fraction of the clusters in the saturated sonogels was estimated as about 28%. The moment in which the meniscus of the liquid phase penetrates into the clusters under rapid evaporation process has been detected by an inflection in the first derivative of the curve of weight loss in a simple thermogravimetric test.     

A new example for the applicability of the relationship between the particle size and the kinetic of the crystal growth

Experiments have been made with PbCrO₄ precipitating system in a batch type tank. In the experiments the speeds of stirring and the residence times were changed. The particle size distribution of precipitates formed has been determined. The rate determining mechanism of the crystal growth were evaluated by two different methods (NIELSEN method and method elaborated in our institute). The two methods used have indicated the same informations about the rate determining processes. It also has been stated that the coagulation does not disturb the selection of the suitable growing mechanism.     

Ordering of cations in the voids of the anionic framework of the crystal structure of catapleiite

The pseudohexagonal crystal structure of the mineral catapleiite Na_1.5Ca_0.2[ZrSi₃(O,OH)₉] · 2(H₂O,F) from the Zhil’naya Valley in the central part of the Khibiny alkaline massif (Kola Peninsula, Russia) is studied by X-ray diffraction (XCalibur-S diffractometer, R = 0.0346): a = 20.100(4), b = 25.673(5), and c = 14.822(3) Å; space group Fdd2, Z = 32, and ρ_calcd = 2.76 g/cm³. Fluorine atoms substituting part of H₂O molecules in open channels of the crystal structure have been found for the first time in the catapleiite composition by microprobe analysis. The pattern of distribution of Na and Ca atoms over the voids of the mixed anionic framework consisting of Zr-octahedra and three-membered rings of Si-tetrahedra accounts for the pronounced pseudoperiodicity along the a and c axes of the pseudohexagonal unit cell and for the lowering of crystal symmetry to the orthorhombic one. It is shown that part of the hydrogen atoms of water molecules is statistically disordered; their distribution correlates with the pattern of the population of large eight-vertex polyhedra by Na and Ca atoms.