TSFZ Growth of Eu-Substituted Large-Size LSCO Crystals

Growth and Characterization of LSCO Crystals

This thesis is a study of how to grow the HTSC cuprate, La2−xSrxCuO4 (LSCO). The TravelingSolvent Floating-Zone (TSDZ) method was used to produce LSCO crystals. LCO was doped with Strontium, in order to produce LSCO, in the following amounts: x = 0.02, 0.03, 0.04, 0.05, 0.06, and 0.07. Measurements on the produced crystals have then been performed at Risø-DTU, Denmark and PSI, Switzerland. X-ra...

The Growth and Properties of Rare Earth-Doped NaY(WO4)2 Large Size Crystals

Rapid growth of large, defect-free colloidal crystals

We demonstrate controlled growth of face-centered cubic (FCC), monodisperse hard-sphere colloidal crystals by centrifugation at up to 3000g onto FCC (100) templates. Such rapid deposition rates often result in an amorphous sediment. Surprisingly, however, growth onto (100) templates results only in single crystals with few or no extended defects. By contrast, deposition onto flat, (111), or (11...

Growth Forms of Large Frost Crystals in the Antarctic

A variety of frost-crystal forms found growing from the vapor in ice caves and tunnels in the Antarctic are described and illustrated . Complex la yered structures found within large, skeletal cr ystals are ascribed to the action of the temperature gradient. Some novel c-axis growth forms and a rare type of bicr ys tal growth accelerated growth in a particular direction along a particular grain...

Approach for growth of high-quality and large protein crystals

Three crystallization methods for growing large high-quality protein crystals, i.e. crystallization in the presence of a semi-solid agarose gel, top-seeded solution growth (TSSG) and a large-scale hanging-drop method, have previously been presented. In this study the effectiveness of crystallization in the presence of a semi-solid agarose gel has been further evaluated by crystallizing addition...