Evolution of the β Phase Flux Dissolution during Quasicrystal Formation |
| M. Surowieca, W. Bogdanowicza and M. Sozańskab
aUniversity of Silesia, Institute of Material Science, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland bSilesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Engineering and Metallurgy, 40-019 Katowice, Poland |
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| This study focuses mainly on the verification of a peritectic reaction during the crystallization of quasicrystals. The β and λ phases apparently provide the necessary material for crystallization of the quasicrystalline ψ phase. We present results of an experimental visualization of the evolution of the flux dissolution process of the high temperature β phase. Solidified droplets of the β phase, formed primarily by the surface tension of the liquid within a bubble or a shrinkage, after crumbling during the flux dissolution may contribute to the quasicrystal formation process according to a peritectic reaction: βc + λ + L → ψ, where βc denotes the crumbled β phase immersed in the liquid. |
DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.126.594 PACS numbers: 81.10.Fq, 61.44.Br |