Abstract
Yttrium-iron garnet, Y3Fe5O12 (YIG), is formed via the peritectic reaction of YFeO3 (YIP) and liquid phases. The direct growth of YIG from a highly undercooled melt with stoichiometric YIG composition was studied using an aero-acoustic levitator with a CO2 laser heating system. Although a YIG droplet was successfully levitated and undercooled to 1327°C, about 250°C below its peritectic temperature (TP), YIP was primarily solidified in the microstructure of dendritic YIP with interdendritic eutectics of YIP and FeOX. However, when a droplet was quenched after it was undercooled below TP, single phase of YIG without YIP and FeOX was found. The X-ray diffraction pattern as well as microstructure indicated that YIG was solidified directly and congruently from the undercooled melt, bypassing the peritectic reaction.
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