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Electromagnetically levitated liquid droplets of pure Si or a Si-Ge alloy were cooled to different temperatures and then dropped onto a chill plate of Cu. Droplet oscillations mark the solid/liquid interface during solidification and permit the different crystal morphologies of silicon to be observed on the quenched surface by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). A spherical morphology found on the quenched surface represents the initial stage of crystal growth. Further growth leads to octahedral crystals bounded by {111} faces near equilibrium and to other polyhedra or even faceted dendrites further from equilibrium. The spherical growth can be observed only when the initial melt undercooling is moderately high. The critical size at which spherical crystals start to develop dendritic growth is much higger than that calculated from the Mullins and Sekerka model, and is bigger than the Coriell and Parker model when kinetic undercooling is taken into account.
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Liu, R.P., Herlach, D.M., Vandyoussefi, M. et al. Morphologies of silicon crystals solidified on a chill plate. Metall Mater Trans A 35, 1067–1073 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-004-1009-4
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