Applying a high magnetic field simulates microgravity conditions that suppress melt convection in germanium single crystal ...

Remember that old high school chemistry experiment where salt crystals precipitate out of a saltwater solution—or maybe the one where rock candy crystals form from sugar water? It turns out that your ...

Crystal growth and solidification dynamics constitute a critical domain within materials science, where the interplay between thermodynamic driving forces and kinetic constraints determines the ...

The field of nonlinear optical (NLO) materials is underpinned by advances in crystal growth and characterisation techniques, which are essential for tailoring optical properties at the atomic and ...

The single crystals currently used in semiconductors, electronic devices, and optical devices can't take the heat. This is because the materials typically used to make them—such as iridium and ...

For more than two decades, the International Space Station has provided a platform for growing and studying protein crystals. In the early days of microgravity research, scientists discovered that ...

Researchers have succeeded in forming metal-organic framework thin films on a substrate while controlling the growth direction of crystals so that they are arranged neatly without gaps. The resulting ...

Czochralski growth, also called the Czochralski method or technique, is a method for growing high-quality single crystals of various materials. It finds wide application in the semiconductor industry, ...

Vols. 1, 3 constitute reports of 1st-2nd Conference on Crystal Growth, held in 1956 and 1959 and sponsored by the Institute of Crystallography, Academy of Sciences, USSR; v. 2 contains interim reports ...