Magnetic damping of buoyant convection during semiconductor crystal growth in microgravity. Steady transverse residual acceleration

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2789-2797

  Ma, Nancy ^a   Homan, K O ^a   Walker, John S ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DAMPING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; GRAVITATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLTEN MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

BUOYANT CONVECTION; CIRCULAR CYLINDER; MAGNETIC DAMPING; TRANSVERSE ACCELERATION;

HEAT CONVECTION;

CONVECTION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; DAMPING; GRAVITY;

EID: 0031237820     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869387     Document Type: Article

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