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Single crystal growth of {\alpha}-Na$_x$MnO$_2$ (x = 0.90) is reported via the floating zone technique. The conditions required for stable growth and intergrowth-free crystals are described along with the results of trials under alternate…
CuFeO$_2$ single crystals up to 50 mm in length and up to 10 mm in diameter were grown by the optical floating-zone method. Stoichiometric polycrystalline rods with a diameter of 6-12 mm were used as feed materials to produce crystals of…
Mm-sized LiMn$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$PO$_4$ single crystals with $0\leq x \leq 1$ were grown by means of the traveling floating-zone technique at elevated Argon pressure of 30~bar. For the various doping levels, the growth process was optimized with…
We report the optimized conditions for growing the high quality single crystals of candidate quantum spin-ice Pr2Hf2O7 using the optical floating-zone method. Large single crystals of Pr2Hf2O7 have been grown under different growth…
We report the growth of mm-sized Pmnb-Li2FeSiO4 single crystals by means of the optical floating-zone method at high argon pressure and describe the conditions required for a stable growth process. The crystal structure is determined and…
We have grown underdoped (x = 0.11, 0.12) and optimally doped (x = 0.16) La2-xSrxCuO4 (LSCO) crystals by traveling-solvent floating-zone (TSFZ) technique. In order to obtain LSCO single crystals of high quality, we have made much effort to…
The floating zone technique is a well-established single crystal growth method in materials research, able to produce volumetrically large specimens with extremely high purities. However, traditional furnace designs have relied on heating…
We perform an experimental investigation of the synthesis of complex materials using the Laser-diode heated floating zone method (L-FZ). We will briefly introduce the Infrared-heated floating zone method of bulk crystal growth and then…
The availability of large high-quality single crystals is an important prerequisite for many studies in solid-state research. The optical floating-zone technique is an elegant method to grow such crystals, offering potential to prepare…
A floating zone furnace is a powerful tool for single crystal growth. Here, we report the floating zone furnace using a high power diode laser of 1kW composed of five 200 Watt heating beams. The five beams with the designed irradiation…
We present a route to grow single crystals of Ba$_{0.9}$Sr$_{0.1}$CuSi$_{2}$O$_{6}$ suitable for inelastic neutron studies via the floating zone technique. Neutron single crystal diffraction was utilized to check their bulk quality and…
We report a study on the crystal growth of the hexagonal manganites $R$MnO$_3$ ($R$ = Y, Lu, Ho, Er, and Tm) by using an optical floating-zone method. It was found that high-quality single crystals of $R$ = Y, Lu, and Ho could be easily…
We report on single crystal growth of laser material Nd:YAG widely used in the applications by innovative crucible-free floating zone method implemented in an advanced laser optical furnace. We have optimized the parameters for the…
High-quality Bi$_{2+x}$Sr$_{2-x}$CuO$_{6+\delta}$(0$<$x$\leq$0.5) single crystals have been grown successfully using the travelling-solvent floating-zone(TSFZ) technique. The samples with $x >$ 0.05 are in the underdoped level. The…
High-quality single crystals are essentially needed for the investigation of the novel bulk properties of unconventional superconductors. The availability of such crystals grown by the floating-zone method has helped to unveil the…
We report the growth of YFe2O4-\delta\ single crystals by the optical floating zone method, showing for the first time the same magnetization as highly stoichiometric (\delta = 0.00) powder samples and sharp superstructure reflections in…
Single crystals of PrNiO3 were grown under an oxygen pressure of 295 bar using a unique high-pressure optical-image floating zone furnace. The crystals, with volume in excess of 1 mm3, were characterized structurally using single crystal…
Incorporation of $\mathrm{Al_{y}Ga_{1-y}N}$ (AGN) semiconductors into high power electronics offers efficiency improvements in power transmission, generation, and use, if approaches to eliminate the defects arising from film-lattice…
The optical floating zone crystal growth technique is a well-established method for obtaining large, high-purity single crystals. While the floating zone method has been constantly evolving for over six decades, the development of…
We have developed the laser-diode-heated floating zone (LDFZ) method, in order to improve the broad and inhomogeneous light focusing in the conventional lamp-heated floating zone method, which often causes difficulties in the crystal growth…