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Instructions

Instructions for building and using the EduCrys setup:

• Control software: educrys-control-basic
• Hardware: educrys-hardware
• Experiments: educrys-experiments

Publications

Preprint with a scientific description of the setup:
K. Dadzis, Czochralski growth of tin crystals as a multi-physical model experiment. 10.48550/arXiv.2305.06875

Poster presented at the German Crystal Growth Conference in 2024:
S. Foroushani, K. Dadzis, A modular, low-cost setup for teaching the multiphysics of crystal growth. 10.13140/RG.2.2.20161.36962/1

Examples of numerical simulation have been published Online with open source.

Poster and lighting talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Young Crystal Growers as well as the German Crystal Growth Conference in 2025:
K. Dadzis, F. Oesterle, N. Sagias, An experimental setup and numerical simulation for teaching the multiphysics of crystal growth. 10.13140/RG.2.2.10343.56482 and 10.13140/RG.2.2.30476.22408

Pictures and videos

Conceptual design of the modular crystal growth setup "EduCrys"

Benchtop growth of tin crystal using the Czochralski method (playback speed: 150x)

Latest design of the EduCrys setup

Features of the EduCrys setup