Quantitative description of morphological transitions in diffusion-limited growth of xenon crystals

Abstract

Changes of growth morphologies are induced by a perturbation of the temperature distribution in the surrounding of a growing xenon crystal. Apart from the dendritic morphology seaweed and doublon morphologies are found. We present a method which quantitatively describes growth morphologies by means of rotational, scale, and translational invariant transformations. Evolutions of growth morphologies are represented as paths in the morphology space. The presented method could be of some use for other fields of research where qualitative and quantitative information of different classes of images has to be identified.