The effect of grain boundary characteristics on the morphology of the crystal/melt interface of multicrystalline silicon

Autor: Kozo Fujiwara, Kensaku Maeda, Haruhiko Koizumi, Satoshi Uda, Jun Nozawa, Masaya Ishii
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Scripta Materialia. 69:266-269
ISSN: 1359-6462
DOI: 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2013.04.015
Popis: The effect of grain boundary characteristics on the crystal/melt interface morphology during the unidirectional solidification of multicrystalline Si was studied by in situ observations. It was shown that sharp and smooth grooves were formed at the crystal/melt interfaces at Σ27 and random grain boundaries, whereas no grooves were formed at Σ3 {1 1 1} twin boundaries. We explain the reasons why the grooves form at grain boundaries and discuss the impurity segregation at the grain boundary grooves on the crystal/melt interface.
Databáze: OpenAIRE