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The results of comparative studies concerned with the formation of impurity heterogeneity in GaSb:Te crystals grown at the POLIZON facility by the Bridgman method under space and ground conditions are presented. Crystallization is carried out in the same temperature-time modes of the heaters: on board the Foton-M 3 spacecraft in space and by the vertical Bridgman method under conditions of weakened thermogravitational convection on Earth. In both cases, Marangoni convection is eliminated, and the effect of vibration microaccelerations on the ampoule that contains the melt is minimized. The microuniformity of the dopant distribution in the crystal areas that are recrystallized by the Bridgman method is higher than that in the seed grown by the Czochralski method. Microuniformity is higher under space conditions than under ground conditions with weakened thermogravitational convection. Spectral Fourier analysis of the spreading resistance distribution R s reveals the characteristic periods of heat and mass transfer processes in the melts under ground and space conditions.
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Original Russian Text © Yu.A. Serebryakov, V.N. Vlasov, V.S. Sidorov, I.A. Prokhorov, I.L. Shul’pina, E.N. Korobeinikova, 2012, published in Poverkhnost’. Rentgenovskie, Sinkhrotronnye i Neitronnye Issledovaniya, 2012, No. 7, pp. 59–67.
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Serebryakov, Y.A., Vlasov, V.N., Sidorov, V.S. et al. Comparative studies of the features of the formation of impurity heterogeneity in GaSb:Te crystals in the case of directed crystallization under space and ground conditions. J. Surf. Investig. 6, 604–611 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1027451012070117
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