Abstract
Ice crystals are grown in the supercooling temperature range of 0-8°C, where the crystal-growth morphology shows a dependence on temperature. In order to understand the growth mechanism, we measure the temperature field around the growing crystals by using the temperature dependence of the refractive index. Since this has a zero for H2O at 0°C, we use D2O, which has similar growth morphologies, and achieve considerably greater sensitivity. The crystal growth cell lies within four imaging Mach-Zehnder interferometers, which observe it in different directions. From the interferograms the three-dimensional temperature field is deduced.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 190-195 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications |
| Volume | 249 |
| Issue number | 1-4 |
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| State | Published - 2 Jan 1998 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We acknowledge helpful discussions with Raz Kupferman and Dean Verhoeven, who also supplied us with algorithms for the tomographic reconstruction. This research was partially supported by the German–Israel Binational Science Foundation (GIF), the Fund for Basic Research of the Israel Academy of Sciences and the Minerva Center for Nonlinear Research.