A possible role for surface packing density in the formation of {111} texture in solidified FCC metals

Texture of rapidly solidified foils of aluminium and its alloys

“…Upon solidification under strongly nonequilibrium conditions, the texture is determined by those grains for which the "crystal-liquid" interface coincides with the plane growing with the greatest rate. Li and Szpunar [12] determined the energy barriers for the propagation of the "crystal-liquid" interface for various crystallographic planes. According to their calculations, the Table 1 Pole densities of the diffraction lines of rapidly solidified foils of aluminium and its alloys The effect of annealing on the texture of rapidly solidified foils was also investigated.…”

Electron microscopy of geometrically confined copper thin films after rapid lateral solidification

“…During the latter eventually b100N-type fiber textures develop with respect to the growth direction [13][14][15][16][17]. Texture evolution in the early stages of growth during the RSP, which may be affected by the prerequisite nucleation stage, is discussed controversially [14,[18][19][20]. A few experiments with laser melting and rapid solidification of pure metals that examined texture [21,22] also reveal a b100N texture along the growth direction.…”

Four-zone solidification microstructure formed by laser melting of copper thin films

“…Occlusion is commonly observed in solidification of polycrystalline pure metals [27]. It is typically attributed to anisotropy in interfacial energies at low growth velocities corresponding to constrained solidification [28,29], and associated with thermal dendritic instability effects in free solidification and at higher velocities [30].…”