Magnetic damping of buoyant convection during semiconductor crystal growth in microgravity: Spikes of residual acceleration

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1182-1187

  Ma, Nancy ^a   Walker, John S ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CALCULATIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HEAT TRANSFER; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; MOLTEN MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; VORTEX FLOW;

BRIDGMAN PROCESS; BUOYANT CONVECTION; MAGNETIC DAMPING; PECLET NUMBER;

CRYSTAL GROWTH;

EID: 0031122173     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869478     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. H. Hamacher, B. Fitton, and J. Kingdon, "The environment of earth orbiting systems," Fluid Sciences and Materials Science in Space, edited by H. U Walter (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987). pp. 1-50.
2. "Microgravity Materials Science: Research and Flight Experiment Opportunities," National Aeronautics and Space Administration Research Announcement NRA-94OLMSA-06, 12 December 1994, B-7.
3. N. Ma and J. S. Walker, "Magnetic damping of buoyant convection during semiconductor crystal growth in microgravity. Continuous and random g-jitters," Phys. Fluids 8, 944 (1993).
4. D. H. Kim, P. M. Adornto, and R. A. Brown. "Effect of vertical magnetic field on convection and segregation in vertical Bridgman crystal growth," J. Cryst. Growth 89, 339 (1988).