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Crystal Growth Techniques for Layered Superconductors
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: Received: 26 September 2017 / Approved: 26 September 2017 / Online: 26 September 2017 (12:04:33 CEST)
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Nagao, M. Crystal Growth Techniques for Layered Superconductors. Condens. Matter 2017, 2, 32. Nagao, M. Crystal Growth Techniques for Layered Superconductors. Condens. Matter 2017, 2, 32.
Abstract
Layered superconductors are attractive because some of them show high critical temperatures. While their crystal structures are similar, those compounds are composed of many elements. Compounds with many elements tend to be incongruent melting compounds, thus, their single crystals cannot be grown via the melt-solidification process. Hence, these single crystals have to be grown below the decomposition temperature, and then the flux method, a very powerful tool for the growth of these single crystals with incongruent melting compounds, is used. This review shows the flux method for single-crystal growth technique by self-flux, chloride-based flux, and HPHT (high-pressure and high-temperature) flux method for many-layered superconductors: high-Tc cuprate, Fe-based and BiS2-based compounds.
Keywords
single crystal growth; incongruent melting compound; flux method
Subject
Physical Sciences, Condensed Matter Physics
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