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2011
XXXVII JEEP – 37th Conference on Phase Equilibria
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| Article Number | 00002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/jeep/201100002 | |
| Published online | 05 October 2011 | |
Crystal growth in condensed phase and phase diagrams
Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire Multimatériaux et Interfaces - UMR CNRS 5615, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France
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christelle.goutaudier@univ-lyon1.fr
The crystal growth techniques used in industry usually take place in melt and more than 80% of the crystals produced have a congruent melting composition. However, the complexity of single-crystal matrices is constantly increasing (4 constituents or even more) and in these multi-constituent systems, very few are fully stoichiometric compounds with a congruent melting composition. Whatever the technique used, to master the growth process, a required first step is to know the stability domain of the solid and liquid phases concerned in a temperature-pressure-composition coordinate system. The choice of growth technique to be implemented will depend primarily on the thermodynamic parameters and the nucleation conditions which will result in crystal generation.
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