Numerical analysis of InP solution growth by travelling heater method: transient response in the case of no heater movement

✍ Scribed by Satoshi Matsumoto; Toru Maekawa; Katsumi Takahashi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 773 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0017-9310
• DOI: 10.1016/s0017-9310(96)00215-3

✦ Synopsis

We carried out a numerical simulation of InP solution growth by the travelling heater method (THM). We introduced the governing equations and made clear the parameters which govern solution growth by THM. The velocity, temperature and concenlration fields and the solidification processes were simulated by the finite difference method and the boundary fit method. The effect of thermal convection on the crystal growth rate and the constitutional supercooling occurring in indium solvent was investigated. ~(3 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.