Undercooling of bulk liquid silicon in an oxide flux
- 15 March 1996
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 79 (6) , 2981-2985
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.361222
Abstract
Drops of molten silicon surrounded by a SiO2–BaO–CaO flux were undercooled at 350 K below their melting temperature. This undercooling is 75 K greater than the largest one reported so far for bulk silicon. To account for this result as well as the nucleation data from laser-melted thin films, classical nucleation theory requires a crystal-melt interfacial tension with a positive temperature coefficient.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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