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Beginner’s Guide to Flux Crystal Growth

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This chapter begins by describing the importance of single crystals and crystal growth in solid-state research, the difference between single crystals and polycrystals, the size of single crystals needed for physical property measurements, and the types of crystals frequently studied by solid-state physicists. The uses of single crystals in solid-state chemistry, applied physics, and mineralogy are also discussed. An overview of flux growth is then presented, using the growth of ruby crystals as an example. Then, other methods of crystal growth, including crystal growth from the melts, solutions, and vapors, are described. The comparison between various techniques of crystal growth underscores the important features of flux growth in solid-state research. This chapter ends by providing various resources on flux growth, where the theories and practices of flux growth have been reported previously.

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    Single crystals of GaN can be grown in a pressurized nitrogen atmosphere using Na as a flux.

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Tachibana, M. (2017). Introduction. In: Beginner’s Guide to Flux Crystal Growth. NIMS Monographs. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56587-1_1

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