Thermal Analysis of the Indium-Iodine System

Growth of InI single crystals for nuclear detection applications

“…The 99.9999% purity In was held in the hot zone at 370-380 1C above the melting point of InI, while 99.998% iodine was held in the cold zone at about 70 1C, where its vapor pressure is approximately 0.01 bars. Peretti [5] has shown that liquid indium monoiodide and liquid indium are immiscible. Thus any InI made from indium liquid and I 2 vapor floats on the top of the remaining molten In.…”

Thermodynamics analysis of indium iodide polycrystal synthesis

“…InI polycrystal was grown using indium ingot (Alfa Aesar, purity of 99.99999%) and iodine beads (Alfa Aesar, purity of 99.99%) as starting material. Indium and iodine were weighed with excess indium to ensure the InI polycrystal synthesized as much as possible to meet the theoretical stoichiometric ratio (1 to 1) . Indium ingot was loaded into the quartz boat which opening toward right was put into the left end of quart amploule and iodine beads was loaded into the right end of quart amploule.…”

Wetting angles of monovalent indium iodide on different substrates

“…It crystallizes in the thallium iodide structure, essentially a distorted NaCl structure, point group Cmcm , with a 0 = 0.475 nm, b 0 = 1.276 nm, c 0 = 0.491 nm, and a theoretical density of 5.39 g cm −3 . InI has a relatively low melting point in the range of 351 °C to 365 °C and is typically grown by the Bridgman method or zone melting . An improvement of the crystalline quality is to be expected for a wall‐free melt growth technique, preferably with low radial gradients.…”