Rapid cooling by laser melt quenching
- 1 July 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 21 (1), 23-25
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1654202
Abstract
Laser melt quenching has been used to obtain high cooling rates comparable to those obtained by ``splat cooling'' techniques. By measurements of dendrite spacing, the average cooling rate in a laser‐melted aluminum alloy was determined to be 3.7×106°C/sec. Laser melt quenching applied to a Ag–Cu alloy suppressed the two‐phase equilibrium eutectic structure and resulted in the formation of a single‐phase solid solution.Keywords
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