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Characteristics of melt convection during Kyropoulos sapphire crystal growth

  • HaiSheng Fang , Zhi Zhang , ZeLin Jin , Sen Wang und JianFeng Xu
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 10. Oktober 2014
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International Journal of Materials Research
Aus der Zeitschrift International Journal of Materials Research Band 105 Heft 10

Abstract

Melt flows in the Kyropoulos sapphire growth system include Marangoni convection and buoyancy convection. From the seeding stage to the final growth stage, both the area of the free surface and melt height decrease to zero from initial values, and hence the flow pattern in the melt varies during growth. To study systematically melt convection and its influence on the growth process, a non-dimensional parameter is introduced to denote the relative strength of Marangoni convection to buoyancy convection. Temperature and stream function distributions for the different growth stages are simulated. It is found that Marangoni convection is negligible during the early growth. However, it plays an important role in the late growth. The remelting of the crystal surface starts when Marangoni convection becomes dominant, and thus it may be related to this convection mode. The interface shape is found to be changing during the whole growth process, which reduces the industrial productivity of sapphire. Interface convexity, crystal diameter and the non-dimensional parameter are presented as functions of the melt height. Interface convexity is further described as a function of the non-dimensional parameter. The results are consistent with experimentally observed phenomena.

Keywords: Convection; Computer simulation; Growth from melt; Industrial crystallization; Sapphire
* Correspondence address, HaiSheng Fang, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, PR China, Tel.: +86 27 87542618, Fax: +86 27 87540724, E-mail:

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Received: 2014-01-16
Accepted: 2014-04-03
Published Online: 2014-10-10
Published in Print: 2014-10-14

© 2014, Carl Hanser Verlag, München

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https://doi.org/10.3139/146.111107
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Convection; Computer simulation; Growth from melt; Industrial crystallization; Sapphire

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  1. Contents
  2. Contents
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  4. Phase equilibria studies of the “MnO”–Al2O3–SiO2 system in equilibrium with metallic alloy. Part 1: Development of the technique and determination of liquidus isotherms between 1 423 K and 1 523 K
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  6. Characteristics of melt convection during Kyropoulos sapphire crystal growth
  7. A method for the formation of intergranular crystalline phases in liquid phase sintering
  8. Corrosion resistance of laser treated titanium alloy with B4C particles at the surface
  9. Effect of Cr and Mo doping on the electrochemical properties of freeze-dried LiCoO2
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  12. Improving the surface topography of mild steel with the burnishing process
  13. Additional small-scale boundary effects on free vibration of carbon nanotubes and their macroscopic energy meaning
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