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Acta Metall Sin  2016, Vol. 52 Issue (8): 931-937    DOI: 10.11900/0412.1961.2015.00553
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SOLIDIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS AND MICRO-STRUCTURE OF HIGH UNDERCOOLED Al-70%Si ALLOY
Junhui YAN,Zengyun JIAN(),Man ZHU,Fang'e CHANG,Junfeng XU
Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Functional Materials and Devices, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an 710021, China
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Junhui YAN,Zengyun JIAN,Man ZHU,Fang'e CHANG,Junfeng XU. SOLIDIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS AND MICRO-STRUCTURE OF HIGH UNDERCOOLED Al-70%Si ALLOY. Acta Metall Sin, 2016, 52(8): 931-937.

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Abstract  

High undercooling processing has long been studied, since crystal growth mode and microstructural evolution are dependent on the undercooling, ΔT. However, in traditional casting, the container wall acts as heterogeneous nucleation site and specimen undercooling is low, which makes it difficult to experimentally reveal the relationship between the crystal growth behavior and undercooling. In order to achieve different undercooling ranging from low to high, many methods have been proposed, such as drop-tube processing, flux processing and electromagnetic levitation (EML). The container wall effects on the purity of the specimen and on the heterogeneous nucleation of undercooled melt can be removed in these methods. Hence, melts can solid in homogeneous nucleation way and achieves high undercooling. Moreover, EML suspends melt droplet stably, and a freely suspended droplet gives the extra benefit to directly observe the solidification process by combining the levitation technique with proper diagnostic means. In this work, Al-70%Si alloy was undercooled by a laser heating EML. The solidification behavior of Al-70%Si alloy melts at different undercooling conditions was investigated during the solidification process by employing a high-speed camera (HSC). After the melts solidification, morphology on the surface of the samples was examined by SEM. The results show that undercooling has great effects on the growth of Si. The primary Si phases are coarse strip with special edges and faces, have obvious traces of twin, and show facet growth characteristic at low undercooling condition. However, the primary Si phases are dendrites and spherulites with smooth surface, and show non-faceted growth characteristic at high undercooling condition. Besides, the primary Si phases are coarse bulks with special edges and faces and dendrites with regular arrangement at moderate undercooling condition, which is the intermediary growth characteristic. As the undercooling increases, the primary Si is refined remarkably and the growth mode changes from facet growth to intermediary growth, and from intermediary growth to non-faceted growth. The critical undercoolings for the transition are 122 and 230 K, respectively. Furthermore, the critical undercoolings were also theoretically calculated using the physical and chemical parameter of Si, which are 108 and 209 K, respectively.

Key words:  Al-70%Si alloy      electromagnetic levitation      high-speed camera      high undercooling      primary Si      growth mode     
Received:  30 October 2015     
Fund: Supported by National Basic Research Program of China (No.2011CB610403) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.51171136, 51301125, 51401156 and 51371133)

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Fig.1  Temperature-time curve of Al-70%Si alloy during melt and solidification (ΔT is the undercooling of Al-70%Si alloy)
Fig.2  Growth morphologies of primary Si recorded by high-speed camera in Al-70%Si alloy at ΔT=36 K (a), ΔT=122 K (b), ΔT=190 K (c) and ΔT=230 K (d)
Fig.3  Surface SEM images of primary Si solidified at ΔT=36 K (a, b), ΔT=122 K (c, d), ΔT=190 K (e) and ΔT=230 K (f, g) at low (a, c, e) and high (b, d, f, g) magnifications
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