Transient torque method: A fast and nonintrusive technique to simultaneously determine viscosity and electrical conductivity of semiconducting and metallic melts

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Sep 2004

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Review of Scientific Instruments, Volume 75, Issue 9, pp. 2810-2816 (2004).

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Viscosity Measurements, Measurements In Electric Variables, Viscosity Of Liquids, Diffusive Momentum Transport, Electrical And Thermal Conduction In Amorphous And Liquid Metals And Alloys, Liquid Semiconductors, Vortex Dynamics, Rotating Fluids

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A transient torque method was developed to rapidly and simultaneously determine the viscosity and electrical conductivity of liquid metals and molten semiconductors. The experimental setup of the transient torque method is similar to that of the oscillation cup method. The melt sample is sealed inside a fused silica ampoule, and the ampoule is suspended by a long quartz fiber to form a torsional oscillation system. A rotating magnetic field is used to induce a rotating flow in the conductive melt, which causes the ampoule to rotate around its vertical axis. A sensitive angular detector is used to measure the deflection angle of the ampoule. Based on the transient behavior of the deflection angle as the rotating magnetic field is applied, the electrical conductivity and viscosity of the melt can be obtained simultaneously by numberically fitting the data to a set of governing equations. The transient torque viscometer was applied successfully to measure the viscosity and electrical conductivity of high purity mercury at 53.4°C. The results were in excellent agreement with published data. The method is nonintrusive; capable of rapid measurement of the viscosity of toxic, high vapor pressure melts at elevated temperatures. In addition, the transient torque viscometer can also be operated as an oscillation cup viscometer to measure just the viscosity of the melt or as a rotating magnetic field method to determine the electrical conductivity of a melt or a solid if desired.

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