Effect of Ar/Ar-H2 plasma arc melting on Cu purification

Jae Won Lim; Min Seuk Kim; N. R. Munirathnam; Minh Tung Le; Masahito Uchikoshi; Kouji Mimura; Minoru Isshiki; Hyuk Chon Kwon; Good Sun Choi

doi:10.2320/matertrans.MRA2008054

Effect of Ar/Ar-H₂ plasma arc melting on Cu purification

Jae Won Lim
, Min Seuk Kim
, N. R. Munirathnam
, Minh Tung Le
, Masahito Uchikoshi
, Kouji Mimura
, Minoru Isshiki
, Hyuk Chon Kwon
, Good Sun Choi^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Metallurgical System Engineering

Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology
Chungnam National University
Tohoku University
Korea Institute of Industrial Technology

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Abstract

Removal of impurities from Cu metal by Ar and Ar-20%H₂ plasma arc melting (PAM) has been carried out. Several impurities such as Li, Na, Mg, P, S, Cl, K, Ca, Zn, Pd, Pb and Bi in Cu were efficiently removed when only Ar plasma gas was used. Moreover, removal degrees for the above mentioned impurities were significantly increased after Ar-20%H₂-PAM, especially for K, Zn and Pd. It was found that Ar-H₂ PAM showed an excellent effect to eliminate impurities with higher vapor pressures than that of Cu metal.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1826-1829
Number of pages	4
Journal	Materials Transactions
Volume	49
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2320/matertrans.MRA2008054
State	Published - 2008.08

Keywords

Copper
Glow discharge mass spectrometry
Hydrogen
Impurity
Plasma arc melting

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Effect of Ar/Ar-H₂ plasma arc melting on Cu purification

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