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Nucleation Kinetics Analyses of Deeply Undercooled Metallic Liquids by Fast Scanning Calorimetry

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Fast chip calorimetry (FSC) offers fascinating new opportunities for calorimetric analyses that are based on the unprecedentedly wide range of heating and cooling rates that are accessible for controlled experiments. Coupled with the high rates that are applicable, FSC offers also ideal conditions for nucleation kinetics analyses that are based on a statistical approach, since such analyses require data sets with a sufficiently high statistical significance. Thus, applying high rates and thus performing many measurements per given time allows achieving high accuracy for the determined nucleation kinetics parameters. Yet while the calibration procedure for conventional differential scanning calorimeters (DSC) is well known, new procedures need to be established for fast chip calorimetry, because the calibration behavior depends on the position of the sample on the measurement area. In addition to a detailed discussion of the calibration of FSC, the nucleation rates of the solidification transformation as obtained from FSC measurements are discussed for two case examples that display the opportunities offered and the issues encountered in FSC-based nucleation kinetics analyses.

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Acknowledgments

The financial supports by the DFG and by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation are gratefully acknowledged. The authors acknowledge the help of the group of Prof. C. Schick (Rostock University) with setting up the electronics hardware for the chip calorimeter, and the authors also thank the group of Prof. D.M. Herlach for their support with the drop-tube processing of the Bi-Ga sample.

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  1. Institute of Materials Physics, University of Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10., 48149, Münster, Germany

    Christian Simon, Yikun Zhang & Gerhard Wilde

  2. Department of Material Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, People’s Republic of China

    Yikun Zhang & Gerhard Wilde

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  1. Institute of Physics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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Simon, C., Zhang, Y., Wilde, G. (2016). Nucleation Kinetics Analyses of Deeply Undercooled Metallic Liquids by Fast Scanning Calorimetry. In: Schick, C., Mathot, V. (eds) Fast Scanning Calorimetry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31329-0_20

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