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Green synthesis of α-MoO3 nanorods using Tridax procumbens leaf extract for photodegradation and antimicrobial applications against cationic tri-pigments 利用原藜叶提取物绿色合成α-MoO3纳米棒，用于光降解和抗菌阳离子三色素

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Journal of Crystal Growth Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128229

Aswin M. , Ambrose Rejo Jeice , Prammitha Rajaram

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Numerical simulation of thick SiC crystal based on ring-shaped powder structure 基于环形粉末结构的SiC厚晶的数值模拟

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Journal of Crystal Growth Pub Date : 2025-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128220

Ning Zhang , Xiufang Chen , Zheyang Li , Xuejian Xie , Xianglong Yang , Wancheng Yu , Xiaobo Hu , Guanglei Zhong , Le Yu , Rui Jin , Xiangang Xu

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The growth of void-free ZnTe-based crystals from Te solution by re-dissolution procedure 用再溶解法在Te溶液中生长无空洞的znte基晶体

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Journal of Crystal Growth Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128219

Guanrong Zhu, Tingting Zhang, Xiaoxiao Wei, Guorong Zhang, Leilei Ji, Jiahui Lv, Zeyu Lu, Yuchen Song, Hao Lei, Changyou Liu, Tao Wang, Lingyan Xu, Wanqi Jie

{"title":"The growth of void-free ZnTe-based crystals from Te solution by re-dissolution procedure","authors":"Guanrong Zhu, Tingting Zhang, Xiaoxiao Wei, Guorong Zhang, Leilei Ji, Jiahui Lv, Zeyu Lu, Yuchen Song, Hao Lei, Changyou Liu, Tao Wang, Lingyan Xu, Wanqi Jie","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128219","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128219","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Void defects are prevalent in ZnTe-based crystals and detrimentally impact their properties. This research aims to elucidate the composition and formation mechanism of the voids. In this experiment, ZnTe crystals were grown by the Te solution method. Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) results demonstrate that the C, Te and Zn elements are distributed on the void surfaces. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) results indicate that the C element mainly exists as zero valence. These results suggest that the carbon film coated on the surface of the quartz crucible must be implicated in the bubble formation. Carbon film possibly reacts with the Te solution to produce a kind of CTe<sub>n</sub> gas, which then dissolves into the Te solution. When the temperature decreases, the solubility of the gases diminishes, leading to the bubbles nucleate at the solid–liquid interface or within the Te solution, and further grow. When a bubble is wrapped by the solid–liquid interface, it evolves into a void in the crystal. To eliminate void in ZnTe-based crystals, the low–high temperature cycle procedure was developed to re-dissolve the crystals near the interface and released void, during the crystal growth. Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) spectrum demonstrates that the optical properties of the ZnTe-based crystals grown by the re-dissolution procedure are improved significantly.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":353,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Crystal Growth","volume":"665 ","pages":"Article 128219"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143890878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Fast adsorption combined with Z-scheme charge migration in ZIF-8/CeO2 enables efficient photocatalytic performance ZIF-8/CeO2的快速吸附结合Z-scheme电荷迁移实现了高效的光催化性能

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Journal of Crystal Growth Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128217

Haiqin Bian, XuMing Zhang, Wei Wei, ZhengYu OuYang, Jiangying wang, Zhengmei Zhang, Tao Wang

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Selective growth and characterization of GaN nanowires on SiC substrates SiC衬底上GaN纳米线的选择性生长和表征

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Journal of Crystal Growth Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128194

Theresa Höldrich , Andrea Wieland , Florian Pantle , Julia Winnerl , Martin Stutzmann

{"title":"Selective growth and characterization of GaN nanowires on SiC substrates","authors":"Theresa Höldrich , Andrea Wieland , Florian Pantle , Julia Winnerl , Martin Stutzmann","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128194","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128194","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>GaN on SiC is a promising material combination for high power devices, where especially nanostructures, such as nanowires or nanofins, are a space and resource saving solution. In this work we demonstrate the selective area growth of GaN nanowires on SiC substrates, using the polytype 6H-SiC. We investigate the influence of the Si- and C-polarity of the substrate on the structural properties of the GaN nanowires by scanning electron microscopy and photoluminescence spectroscopy. On both substrates uniform and hexagonal nanowires are achieved for the respective optimal growth temperature, which is determined to be 20<!--> <sup>$circ $</sup>C higher for Si-polarity. As the polarity combination of the SiC substrate and GaN nanowires strongly influences the electrical properties at the heterointerface due to different charge accumulations, it is necessary to investigate the epitaxial relationship. X-ray diffraction revealed that the GaN nanowires exclusively adopt the orientation of the underlying SiC lattice, leading to an in-plane epitaxial relationship of (1<span><math><mover><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mo>¯</mo></mover></math></span>00)GaN/(1<span><math><mover><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mo>¯</mo></mover></math></span>00)6H-SiC. Polarity-selective wet chemical etching and Kelvin probe force microscopy showed that the GaN nanowires preserve the polarity of the substrate, thus, either a predominantly metal-polar (Si-polar/Ga-polar) or non-metal-polar (C-polar/N-polar) orientation is present. The complete epitaxial relationship on both substrate polarities can be identified as (1<span><math><mover><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mo>¯</mo></mover></math></span>00)[0001]GaN<span><math><mrow><mo>|</mo><mo>|</mo></mrow></math></span>(1<span><math><mover><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mo>¯</mo></mover></math></span>00)[0001]6H-SiC for the large majority of NWs at their respective optimum growth temperatures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":353,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Crystal Growth","volume":"665 ","pages":"Article 128194"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143898390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Effects of Sc3+ and Y3+ codoping on luminescence and scintillation properties of LaBr3:Ce single crystals Sc3+和Y3+共掺杂对LaBr3:Ce单晶发光和闪烁性能的影响

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Journal of Crystal Growth Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128207

Lei Zong , Qian Wang , Yuhao Zhang , Lixi Wang , Yuntao Wu

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Czochralski growth and composition control of Tb3Ga5O12 single crystals Tb3Ga5O12单晶的Czochralski生长及成分控制

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Journal of Crystal Growth Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128205

Miki Watanabe , Yuki Maruyama , Katsuhiko Nagao , Yutaka Anzai , Masanori Nagao , Satoshi Watauchi , Isao Tanaka

{"title":"Czochralski growth and composition control of Tb3Ga5O12 single crystals","authors":"Miki Watanabe , Yuki Maruyama , Katsuhiko Nagao , Yutaka Anzai , Masanori Nagao , Satoshi Watauchi , Isao Tanaka","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128205","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128205","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tb<sub>3</sub>Ga<sub>5</sub>O<sub>12</sub> (TGG) single crystals have excellent optical isolator characteristics. However, TGG single crystals grown by the Czochralski method sometimes contain radial stripes along the growth direction, which degrade their optical isolator characteristics. These radial stripes may be caused by a composition mismatch between the melt and crystals. In this study, we grew 25 mmϕ TGG single crystals from Tb-rich melts and precisely measured their lattice constants. The relationship between the composition and lattice constants was determined using sintered polycrystalline TGG. Based on these experiments, the congruent-melting composition was found to be 37.9 mol% Tb<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>. High-quality, 50-mmϕ TGG single crystals without radial stripes were grown using a starting material composition of 37.8 mol% Tb<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>, considering the evaporation of Ga<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> from the melt during crystal growth. We repeatedly grew TGG single crystals by adding the TGG starting material to the residue in the crucible used for growth to complete four additional growth processes. The fluctuation of in the lattice constant of the TGG boules for the first and fifth growths was within 0.0002 Å, which corresponds to a Tb<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> composition uniformity of 0.01 mol% Tb<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>. Therefore, we have succeeded in growing uniform TGG single crystals industrially with composition fluctuations within only 0.01 mol% by optimizing the composition of the TGG starting material to 37.8 mol% Tb<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":353,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Crystal Growth","volume":"665 ","pages":"Article 128205"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143890876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Large scale epitaxy of AlGaN/GaN heterojunction films on h-BN/4H-SiC templates 在h-BN/4H-SiC模板上大规模外延AlGaN/GaN异质结薄膜

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Journal of Crystal Growth Pub Date : 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128195

Daqing Peng , Chuanhao Li , Qiankun Yang , Kechao Wang , Liangbing Ge , Dongguo Zhang , Weike Luo , Zhonghui Li

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Design and development of transparent vertical Bridgman system and growth of high quality 4-Chloro-3-Nitrobenzophenone single crystal for nonlinear optical applications 透明垂直布里奇曼系统的设计与开发以及用于非线性光学应用的高质量 4-氯-3-硝基二苯甲酮单晶的生长

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Journal of Crystal Growth Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128198

Jithin Kuriakose, P. Karuppasamy, P. Ramasamy

{"title":"Design and development of transparent vertical Bridgman system and growth of high quality 4-Chloro-3-Nitrobenzophenone single crystal for nonlinear optical applications","authors":"Jithin Kuriakose, P. Karuppasamy, P. Ramasamy","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128198","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128198","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The development and examination of nonlinear optical (NLO) single crystals have garnered considerable attention owing to their prospective uses in optoelectronics and photonics. This study successfully grew 4-Chloro-3-nitrobenzophenone (4C3N) single crystals using an indigenously developed Vertical Bridgman method for nonlinear optical applications. This technique guarantees superior crystal quality, consistency, and a substantial defect-free volume, which is critical for optical applications. Notably, we have grown high-quality, bulk-sized crystals with significantly higher transmittance compared to previously reported data. The structural, optical, and thermal characteristics of the 4C3N crystals were analysed using X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV–Vis spectroscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis. UV–visible-NIR spectroscopy revealed a transmittance exceeding 83 % in the visible region, with a cut-off wavelength at 418 nm corresponding to an optical band gap energy of about 2.9 eV. Photoluminescence analysis was performed to evaluate the emission properties of the grown crystal, showing a prominent peak at 585 nm. The thermal stability of the 4C3N crystal was examined using TGA-DTA analysis, which determined its melting temperature to be 113 °C. Photocurrent measurements indicated strong photoconductive properties. Additionally, the Z-scan technique was used to measure third-order nonlinear optical properties, giving a value of 1.389 × 10<sup>–9</sup> esu. Thus, the grown 4C3N crystal shows significant potential for nonlinear optical applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":353,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Crystal Growth","volume":"663 ","pages":"Article 128198"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143847861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Characterization of THM CdZnTe for nuclear radiation detection THM CdZnTe用于核辐射检测的表征

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Journal of Crystal Growth Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128196

Song Zhang , Hui Zhang

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