Single Crystal Growth Facility
This facility is used to grow large single
crystals by the Bridgman method of materials with melting point to 1600 C.
The crystal grower features computer control of
temperature profile and translation rate and growth in an inert atmosphere or
under vacuum. A cold crucible attachment permits melting of levitated materials
without a crucible. A separate arc melting machine is used to prepare specimens
of conducting materials of arbitrary composition under an inert atmosphere.
The laboratory is currently used to grow
single crystals of shape memory, ferromagnetic shape-memory and other alloys. A
major research program for this lab is the discovery and development of the new
class of "ferromagnetic shape memory" alloys; these undergo large changes of
shape under an applied field.
Last Modified: 2007-07-24 at 10:09:29 -- this is in International Standard Date and Time Notation