Melt textured growth process

Markert et al. 1989a). The situation can be inqiroved substantially by subjecting YBa2Cu307 5 to a melt textured growth process which yields values of of 10 A/cm ... 

The formation and growth of an electrodeposited phase is a complex process and many methods have been used to study it. The main feature of our laboratory scientific investigations is intensive study of the structure of poly- and monocrystalline refractory metal deposits, such as tungsten, molybdenum, rhenium, iridium, ruthenium and etc. We have shown that the structure of electrodeposited layers directly depends on the conditions of electrolysis [1]. Moreover this structures a most sensitive instrument to study the properties of our electrolyte, including purity of the melt, ion composition, dissipative ability, and kinetic parameters of electrodeposition. It was established that the reduction of oxygen in a chloride melt changed the direction of molybdenum growth texture from <111> to <001 > direction with a fine structure of epitaxial layers [2]. 

Another technique for crystallinity analysis is the measurement of pole figures. It is widely applied for thin films, LPE films, melt-processed polycrystalline samples with a noticeable texture (Goyal et al. 1993). In fig. 33, a good crystallinity of the Y123 LPE film is evidently obtained due to a specific growth mechanism, mentioned above (sect. 5.4), despite the large misfit between the film and the MgO substrate. Differential interference contrast (DIM or Nomarski) microscopy can be successfully applied to observe misorientation on flat ( mirror-like ) surfaces (Klemenz and Scheel 1993). 

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