An Improvement on Skull-Melting Method for Growing Sapphire Single Crystal
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摘要: 早先文献中曾报道,壳熔法熔化蓝宝石时,由于出现“去耦”现象,不能长时间地保持蓝宝石熔体稳定的熔化状态,熔体倾向于在一段时间(3~4h)后缓慢地“去耦”,即减弱熔体与电磁场的耦合程度而自发地凝固,故无法进行正常的定向结晶而生长出较大的晶体。通过具体的壳熔法生长蓝宝石晶体实验找到了减弱和防止“去耦”现象出现的方法,壳熔法设备的参数是:射频电源频率为0.8~1.8MHz,电源额定功率为100 kW,冷坩埚内径为200mm,坩埚下降速度为3~10mm/h。并从理论上分析了出现“去耦”现象的原因,进而改进了壳熔法蓝宝石晶体生长工艺,采用壳熔定向结晶法,第一次得到了厘米级蓝宝石单晶。与壳熔法生长立方氧化锆晶体的情况相比,壳熔法生长的晶体材料可以分成二类:一类材料在熔点上下的电阻率都比较小(1~0.1Ω·cm量级,导电体);另一类材料在熔点之下的电阻率比较大(104Ω·cm量级,介电体),在熔点之上的电阻率急剧减小(0.1Ω·cm量级,导电体)。这二类材料在用壳熔法生长晶体时有很多不同的特点,有待深入研究。Abstract: Some researches shows that because of“de-couple”phenomena,skull-melting method was not able to keep the stable melting state of sapphire for long time.The melting sapphire tended to slowly de-couple,which weakens the coupling between the melting sapphire and the electromagnetic field,and then the melting sapphire freezes spontaneously in 3 to 4 hours which destroys normal directional crystallization.So,this paper analyzed the possible causes of“de-couple”and made some improvement in this field of study.The author got the sapphire crystal in cm-level for the first time with the skull-melting directional crystallization method.Parameters of skull-melting method are as follows:RF power frequency is 0.8—1.8MHz,RF output power is 100kW,inner diameter of cold crucible is 200mm and drop speed of cold crucible is 3—10mm/h.Compared with the cubic zirconia(CZ)crystal grown by skull-melting method,the materials,produced with skull-melting method,can be divided into two groups:one is“conductor”with low resistivity(the level of 1—0.1Ω·cm)before and after melting;another is dielectric with high resistivity(the level of 104Ω·cm)before melting which then turned into“conductor”with low resistivity(the level of 0.1 Ω·cm)after melting.These two groups of materials have a lot of different crystal growth characteristics worthy of doing further researches.
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Keywords:
- crystal growth /
- skull-melting technique /
- sapphire /
- single crystal
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