Bulk Crystal Growth of Oxides and Fluorides

A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2016)

Special Issue Editor

Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung, Max-Born-Straße 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
Interests: oxide single crystals; single crystal growth from melt; high-temperature solution growth; phase diagrams; laser crystals; piezoelectric crystals; substrate crystals

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The huge diversity of oxide and fluoride crystal structures created uncounted applications of those crystals in science and technology as well as in everyday life. Chromium-doped corundum (“ruby”) was one of the first materials grown in single crystal shape on an industrial scale in the very early 20th century. Originally grown for jewelry, ruby crystals found their way into precision instruments as bearing stones and played a vital role in the development of laser technology. Today, sapphire remains among the most extensively grown single crystalline materials with widespread usage as a substrate for optoelectronic heterostructure. Rapid progress in many domains of science and technology in the last 60 years has created many new applications for oxide and fluoride single crystals, e.g., in metrology, optical and communication technologies, and a continuing demand for new materials and improved quality materials.

Growth of oxide single crystals from the liquid phase, from the melt or molten solution, involves a number of issues and challenges such as phase relations in the appropriately chosen material system, very high melting point temperatures, transport of heat and matter in the occurring phases and through their boundaries, segregation phenomena, and defect generation, to name a few. The crystal grower is given the task of defining and implementing conditions compromising all the different requirements and constraints into a process capable of yielding crystals of the desired size and quality.

We encourage research contributions covering scientific and technological aspects of bulk growth of oxides and fluorides from melts. Reports on crystal growth procedures are welcome as well as reports on studies yielding new information essential for shaping and implementation of improved crystal growth processes. Reports on physical properties are welcome provided that results are directly correlated to growth phenomena.

Dr. Steffen Ganschow
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • crystal growth from melts
  • dielectric materials
  • bulk crystals
  • crystal defects
  • phase diagrams
  • transfer of heat and matter

Published Papers

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