Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Microstructures of Directionally Solidified Si-TaSi2 Eutectic in situ Composite for Field Emission

CUI Chun-Juan, ZHANG Jun, SU Hai-Jun, WANG Hong, LIU Lin, FU Heng-Zhi   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
  • Received:2006-10-13 Revised:2007-01-05 Published:2007-09-20 Online:2007-09-20

Abstract: The directionally solidified Si-TaSi2 eutectic in ~situ composite for field emission was prepared with the electron beam floating zone melting (EBFZM) technique. The microstructure characteristic of Si-TaSi2 eutectic was systematically investigated. The Si-TaSi2 eutectic in ~situ composite, which has high-aligned and uniformly-distributed TaSi2 fibers in the Si matrix, can be obtained when the solidification rate changes from 0.3mm/min to 9.0mm/min. With the increase of the solidification rate, the diameter and the inter-rod spacing of the TaSi2 fibers are decreased, while the density and the volume fraction of the fibers are increased. The solid/liquid interface is studied by the zero power method as well. When the solidification rate varies from 0.3mm/min to 5.0 mm/min, the solid/liquid interface morphology
has the following evolution processing: planar interface→shallow cell interface→cell interface→planar interface.

Key words: directional solidification, electron beam floating zone melting, Si-TaSi2 eutectic in situ composite, solid/liquid interface

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