The Space Shuttle Columbia was launched as STS-75 at 2018 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) on February 22, 1996. One of the two major experiment packages was the Third United States Microgravity Payload (USMP-3), and one of the principal instruments on the USMP was the Advanced Automated Directional Solidification Furnace (AADSF). The AADSF is a multizone directional solidification furnace, and at the time of the USMP-3 flight was capable of processing only one sample per Shuttle mission which, for that flight, was a lead tin telluride (PbSnTe) crystal growth experiment. In the one year since the flight experiment the sample has been retrieved from the spacecraft and analysis has begun. After presenting introductory material on why PbSnTe was chosen as a test material, why microgravity processing was expected to produce desired results, and what we expected to find in conducting these tests, this report discusses the results to date which are far from complete.


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    Title :

    The Effect of Microgravity Direction on the Growth of PbSnTe


    Contributors:
    Fripp, A. L. (author) / Debnam, W. J. (author) / Rosch, W. R. (author) / Narayanan, R. (author)


    Publication date :

    1998-11-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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