Dresden 2009 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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MM: Fachverband Metall- und Materialphysik

MM 45: Phase Transitions III

MM 45.3: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 26. März 2009, 15:45–16:00, IFW B

Investigation of nucleation in undercooled melts of pure metals — •Stefan Klein^1,2 and Dieter M. Herlach¹ — ¹Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, 51170 Köln, Germany — ²Institut für Festkörperphysik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany

Containerless processing is an effective tool for undercooling metallic melts far below their equilibrium melting temperatures. By using such levitation techniques the dominating heterogeneous nucleation on container walls is completely eliminated. Furthermore, if the experiments are performed under clean environmental conditions, heterogeneous nucleation on free surfaces is also greatly reduced. In this work both electromagnetic and electrostatic levitation techniques are used for a comparative investigation of nucleation in undercooled metallic metals. In case of electromagnetic levitation samples in a diameter of 7mm are processed within high purity inert gas atmosphere while in case of electrostatic levitation samples in a diameter of 2mm are processed in ultra high vacuum. With a modified model by Skripov a statistical analysis of the distribution function of the undercoolings measured in one experiment run consisting of at least 100 undercooling cycles is conducted which provides information about the physical nature of different nucleation mechanism depending on experiment conditions.

The project was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, under contract No. HE 1601/21.