Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Heating Rate on InGaSb Crystal Growth under Zero-Gravity

Xin Jin; Atsushi Sekimoto; Yasunori Okano; Takuya Yamamoto; Yasuhiro Hayakawa; Yuko Inatomi; Sadik Dost

doi:10.1007/s12217-019-9698-x

Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Heating Rate on InGaSb Crystal Growth under Zero-Gravity

Xin Jin, Atsushi Sekimoto, Yasunori Okano, Takuya Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Hayakawa, Yuko Inatomi, Sadik Dost

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In order to determine the optimum heating rate for the planned microgravity experiments on the International Space Station (ISS), axisymmetric 2D numerical simulations were performed under the zero-gravity condition to investigate the effect of heating rate on the dissolution process of the seed and feed crystals in a sandwich system of InGaSb. The simulation results showed that the dissolution lengths of the seed and feed crystals are strongly affected by heating rate. A higher heating rate leads to larger feed and seed dissolutions. Simulation results suggest that the microgravity experiments on the ISS should not adopt a heating rate higher than 3.6 K/h in order to avoid a complete dissolution of the feed and/or seed crystals in this sandwich system.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	377-380
Number of pages	4
Journal	Microgravity Science and Technology
Volume	31
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12217-019-9698-x
Publication status	Published - Aug 15 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Crystal growth
Heat and mass transfer
InGaSb
ISS
Numerical simulation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Modelling and Simulation
Engineering(all)
Physics and Astronomy(all)
Applied Mathematics

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