Growth of epitaxial ice crystals on covellite (CuS) under reduced air pressure

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Air, Copper Sulfides, Gas Pressure, Ice Formation, Nucleation, Pressure Dependence, Vapor Phase Epitaxy, Diffusion, Free Energy, Interferometry, Supersaturation, Surface Roughness, Temperature Dependence

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The advance velocity of nonthickening crystals and basal steps were measured as a function of temperature, supersaturation, and air pressure, using an optical interference technique. Ice crystal growth at -7 C in a thermal diffusion chamber was also investigated as a function of supersaturation. The radial growth rates of nonthickening crystals and the advance velocity of a 0.08 micrometer step increased with decreasing pressure suggesting a pressure dependence of vapor diffusivity. Abnormally slow growth of crystals thinner than 0.3 micrometer at 4% supersaturation and the sublimation of thin crystals ( 1 micrometer) in the neighborhood of a thicker crystal indicated that nonthickening crystals are pseudomorphically strained to fit the substrate within a layer some ten atomic spacings thick, above which the strain decreases inversely as the crystal thickness. Results suggest that ice crystal growth follows a two dimensional nucleation combined with a progressive roughening of the surface with increasing temperature.

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