Crystal Shape Stability in Meniscus-Controlled Growth Processes

Stability of Crystallization in Edge-Defined Film-Fed Growth from the Melt

“…la, b), while the EFG technique makes use of wetted materials (Fig. 1e) [5]. In fact, a wetted edge-definer was used in Stepanov growth as early as 1958 to grow shaped crystals of alkali halides (see Fig.…”

“…In growing a crystal shaped as a thin ribbon, the profile curve for the flat part is given by equation (4), and the edge is described by equation (5). Equation (4) can also be used to find profiles of the small-curvature segments of the crystal.…”