Unsteady Growth ofBaB2O4Single Crystal from High-Temperature Solution

Bulk PPKTP by crystal growth from high temperature solution

Periodically-poled ferroelectric crystals show unprecedented efficiency and properties otherwise impossible to reach. Unfortunately, the sample thickness obtainable today limits their use to low and moderate power application. With the aim of increasing the size of periodically domain-structured crystals with a controlled and regular grating period, we proposed an epitaxial growth process using...

High-temperature solution growth of intermetallic single crystals and quasicrystals

Solution growth continues to be one of the most powerful techniques for the production of single crystals for basic and applied research. It is a versatile technique that allows for the growth of congruently and incongruently melting materials with equal ease. The primary requirement for growth is that there be an exposed primary solidification surface in the appropriate equilibrium alloy phase...

Introduction to Crystal Growth Methods with Emphasis on Low Temperature Solution Growth Technique

On Segregation during Crystal Growth from a Solution Zone

The distribution in a niixed crystal A1-,B,C grown from an either (A, B)-rich or C-rich solution zone (e.g. travelling heater method or related techniques) is to be described by PFANN’S zone melting function which depends on the segregation coefficient and a characteristic length. Using pseudobinary mole fractions x the characteristic length of the distribution function is not the actual length...

Lattice Boltzmann model for crystal growth from supersaturated solution

[1] We develop a new, lattice effects-free lattice Boltzmann model for simulating crystal growth from supersaturated solution. Simulations of crystal growth from a single or multiple nuclei in a domain initially filled with supersaturated solution are presented, such as in the case of gas hydrate formation. We find that as the process changes from diffusion-controlled to surface reaction-contro...