Movies of crystal growth

Growth of ice crystals in supercooled melt

In-situ observation of the free growth of an ice crystal in supercooled melt under a microgravity environment during a drop tower experiment
●Bright-field observation: ice growth.mov (574 KB)
●Interferometry observation: interference.mov (730 KB)
●Temperature distribution (from the analysis of the interferometry observation): diffusion field.mov (1.057 KB)

Pattern formation of an ice crystal grown in supercooled water
●Bright-field observation under 1G: icepattern.mov (460 KB)

Growth of ice crystals in supersaturated water vapor

In-situ observation of the lateral growth of molecular layers (elementary steps: 0.37 nm in height) at vapor-ice interfaces
●Two-dimensional nucleation growth of a basal face
●Two-dimensional nucleation growth of a prism face

Movies of quasi-liauid layers (QLLs)

Two-types of QLLs during the surface melting of an ice
●The formation of droplet-type QLLs at -1.5~-0.4°C (617 kB)
●The formation of thin-layer-type QLLs at -1.0~-0.1°C (1310 kB)
●Molecular layers (elementary steps) growing beneath a thin-layer-type QLL at -0.5°C (710 kB)
●The decomposition of a thin-layer-type QLL and the subsequent formation of droplet-type QLLs and molecular layers at -1.0°C (537 kB)