Abstract:
A new, systematic way of predicting the growth morphology of crystals is presented in this paper. In our approach, the relation between the relative growth rate and habit-controlling factors is derived according to crystal growth mechanisms. To calculate relevant internal and external habit-controlling factors, a conventional PBC analysis and a so-called interfacial structure (IS) analysis are carried out, respectively. To check our approach, the morphology of several crystals is predicted using our formalisms, and comparisons are made between our approach and the Hartman-Perdok theory and experiments. The theoretical growth morphology of the crystals predicted by our formalism turns out to be in excellent agreement with the observed one.