New Trends in Growth Technique of Micro-Pulling-Down Method
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Crystal Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2021) | Viewed by 6930
Special Issue Editors
Interests: crystal growth; solid state physics; phase transition; oxides
Interests: crystal growth phenomenon under high pressure and temperature conditions; multi-step crystallization; in situ observation technique; growth kinetics; thermodynamics; micro-pulling-down method
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The micro-pulling-down (μ-PD) technique demonstrates some remarkable technological benefits such as small and modifiable furnace structures to control ambient temperature, uniform solute concentration, and shaping possibility. Hence, the μ-PD method is utilized as one of the most advantageous techniques available to grow a wide variety of industrial crystals for a large wide of applications, such as nonlinear optical elements and surface-acoustic-wave elements, scintillation and laser. Oxides are typical crystals grown from the melt under stationary stable regime by using the μ-PD method. Thus, important challenges, such as surface-morphological control, the formation of striations and growth ridges, limit segregation through controlling dopants concentration, the growth during the application of the external field, and so on, remain in the understanding of growth using the μ-PD method.
Today, commercial laser components using YAG fibers shape grown by µ-PD are available in the market. Therefore, the technology potential of µ-PD technique to bring solutions to the technological locks limiting the development of high power laser chain and others critical application is very promised.
Here, we invite researchers to contribute to the Special Issue of Crystals for the discussion and presentation of recent advances in the growth technique of the μ-PD method, ranging from practical experiments to computational simulation. The types of materials used are not restricted. The authors need to consider the keywords listed below. We expect to compile numerous papers.
Dr. Kheirreddine Lebbou
Dr. Harutoshi Asakawa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Growth of single crystals
- Crystal growth mechanism
- Defects
- Convection
- Thermodynamics
- Computational simulation
- Theoretical calculation
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