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The growth of single crystals of MoS2 and WS2 by materials transport through a liquid salt flux made from a low melting mixture of NaCl and CsCl is described. The crystals are characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction, which reveals…
Given renewed interest in the electronic properties of semimetallic compounds with varying degrees of spin orbit coupling we have grown single crystals of SrAgSb and SrAuSb, measured their temperature and field dependent electrical…
Single crystals of Na$_{1-\delta}$Fe$_{1-x}$T$_x$As with T = Co, Rh have been grown using a self-flux technique. The crystals were thoroughly characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, magnetic susceptibility and electronic transport with…
The metallic character of the GeBi2Te4 single crystals is probed using a combination of structural and physical properties measurements, together with density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The structural study shows distorted Ge…
Topological surface states have been extensively observed via optics in thin films of topological insulators. However, in typical thick single crystals of these materials, bulk states are dominant and it is difficult for optics to verify…
In order to study the metallic ferromagnetism induced by electron doping in the narrow-gab semiconductor FeSb$_2$, single crystals of FeSb$_2$, Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$Sb$_2$ ($0 \le x \le 0.5$) and FeSb$_{2-y}$Te$_y$ ($0 \le y \le 0.4$), were…
We study the single crystal growth and the electronic properties of TbIrIn5. The single crystals of TbIrIn5 were grown using the flux method. The analysis of the x-ray diffraction pattern shows high-quality single crystals formed in a…
Single crystals of SrMn$_2$Ni$_6$Te$_3$O$_{18}$, a member of the ferroaxial-type magnetic oxide family $AB_{2}C_{6}$Te$_3$O$_{18}$ ($A$ = Pb, Sr; $B$ = Mn, Cd; $C$ = Ni, Co), have been successfully grown, and their structural, magnetic,…
ZrSiS-type materials represent a large material family with unusual coexistence of topological nonsymmorphic Dirac fermions and nodal-line fermions. As a special group of ZrSiS-family, LnSbTe (Ln = Lanthanide rare earth) compounds provide a…
Bi2Te3 is a member of a new class of materials known as topological insulators which are supposed to be insulating in the bulk and conducting on the surface. However experimental verification of the surface states has been difficult in…
We report the angle dependent high field (up to 140kOe) magneto transport of Bi2Te3 single crystals, a well-known topological insulator. The crystals were grown from melt of constituent elements via solid state reaction route by self-flux…
The thermoelectric properties between 10 and 300 K and the growth of single crystals of n-type and p-type GeBi4Te7, GeSb4Te7, and the Ge(Bi1-xSbx)4Te7 solid solution are reported. Single crystals were grown by the modified Bridgman method,…
X-ray structural and spectral analyses, X-ray diffraction topography and metallography were used to study dendrite structure of Al-4 wt % Cu single crystals grown by the Bridgman technique at a rate of 1 mm/min and on seeds with <001>…
Single crystals of LiFeAs were successfully grown by a self-flux method using the cubic anvil high-pressure and high-temperature technique. The reaction took place in a closed boron nitride crucible at a pressure of 1 GPa and a temperature…
We report on the superconducting properties of In doped SnTe which has recently been explored as a topological crystalline superconductor. Single crystals of Sn0.5In0.5Te have been synthesized by modified Bridgman method. Resistivity…
We show a strong mesoscopic transverse growth arrest that co-exists with a high-speed longitudinal growth in single-crystalline KDP crystals with large aspect ratios. To explain this unique growth morphology, which cannot be explained by…
Magnesium diboride crystals were grown with low melting alloy flux. The sample with superconductivity at 38.3 K was prepared in the zinc-magnesium flux and another sample with superconductivity at 34.11 K was prepared in the…
A long-standing issue in topological insulator research has been to find a material that provides an ideal platform for characterizing topological surface states without interference from bulk electronic states and can reliably be…
Using Sn-intercalated TaSe$_2$ as a model system, we demonstrate the presence of structural heterogeneity captured by single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD) and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) that eludes the routine…
We describe the crystal growth of high quality single crystals of the non-centrosymmetric superconductor, Ru7B3 by the floating zone technique, using an optical furnace equipped with xenon arc lamps. The crystals obtained are large and…