Melting and Crystal Growth in Induction Furnaces
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Crystallography and Applications of Metallic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 3291
Special Issue Editor
Interests: crystal growth; scintillation; photoconversion; garnets; solid-state reactions; energy transfer; emission and excitation spectra; thermoluminescence; decay kinetics; luminescence quenching mechanisms; thermodynamical phase stability; defect engineering; atoms segregations
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Functional crystals are high-tech solid materials that possess a high degree of purity and perfection, and are engineered for the desired application. Mainly, such applications can include functional properties that transform one form of energy into another e.g., acoustic, light, heat, electrical, magnetic, mechanical, etc. The rapid progress in modern science and technology demands more varieties of functional crystals. Consequently, many piezoelectric, scintillator, semiconductor, laser optical, and nonlinear optical single crystals have been grown.
Continuous development in synthetic chemistry contributes to the development or improvement of new of already-existing melt growth technologies. A functional crystal plays an important role in different fields, especially when it is used as a key material in advanced technology and industry. The demand for large bulk and high-quality single crystals significantly imposes the rapid development of crystal growth methods. The current trend in the development of functional crystals is focused on the production of low-dimensional crystals precisely tailored to be a part of multifunctional devices, including scintillation detectors, photo-converters, solid-state lasers, semiconductors, etc. Those tailored crystals possess better physical and chemical properties, such as a higher damage threshold, a shorter pulse width, a higher quantum efficiency, a higher frequency, and operation under extreme conditions.
Melt growth of crystals is undoubtedly the most popular method of growing large single crystals at relatively high growth rates. Mostly, functional crystals are characterized by a high melting point. Hence, functional crystals are mostly grown using the induction heating method. Over half of industrial crystals are produced using this technology. Mostly, oxides, halides, chalcogenides, elemental semiconductors, and metals, etc., are obtained in the induction furnaces.
Dr. Karol Bartosiewicz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- single crystal
- melt growth
- induction furnace
- oxides
- halides
- scintillator
- piezoelectric
- laser
- photoconvertor
- defects
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