Single-Crystal Growth of Metallic Rare-Earth Tetraborides by the Floating-Zone Technique
Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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Crystals 2019, 9(4), 211; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst9040211
Received: 27 March 2019
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Revised: 11 April 2019
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Accepted: 12 April 2019
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Published: 19 April 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Floating Zone and Crystals Grown by this Method)
The rare-earth tetraborides are exceptional in that the rare-earth ions are topologically equivalent to the frustrated Shastry-Sutherland lattice. In this paper, we report the growth of large single crystals of RB (where R = Nd, Gd → Tm, and Y) by the floating-zone method, using a high-power xenon arc-lamp furnace. The crystal boules have been characterized and tested for their quality using X-ray diffraction techniques and temperature- and field-dependent magnetization and AC resistivity measurements.
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Keywords:
crystal growth; floating-zone technique; rare-earth tetraborides; Shastry-Sutherland lattice; frustrated magnet
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Brunt, D.; Ciomaga Hatnean, M.; Petrenko, O.A.; Lees, M.R.; Balakrishnan, G. Single-Crystal Growth of Metallic Rare-Earth Tetraborides by the Floating-Zone Technique. Crystals 2019, 9, 211. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst9040211
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Brunt D, Ciomaga Hatnean M, Petrenko OA, Lees MR, Balakrishnan G. Single-Crystal Growth of Metallic Rare-Earth Tetraborides by the Floating-Zone Technique. Crystals. 2019; 9(4):211. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst9040211
Chicago/Turabian StyleBrunt, Daniel, Monica Ciomaga Hatnean, Oleg A. Petrenko, Martin R. Lees, and Geetha Balakrishnan. 2019. "Single-Crystal Growth of Metallic Rare-Earth Tetraborides by the Floating-Zone Technique" Crystals 9, no. 4: 211. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst9040211
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