The theoretically predicted magnetic Weyl semimetals RAlGe (R = Pr, Ce) were grown in Paul Scherrer Institute using a HKZ floating zone furnace as well as Al self-flux growth. The authors around group leader Ekaterina Pomjakushina recently published the details on crystal growth and analysis.…

Our first 300 bar OFZ furnace manufactured for Tyrel McQueen Lab at Johns Hopkins University yielded the first paper, published in the 50th Anniversary Issue of the Journal of Solid State Chemistry (Phelan, W. Adam, et al. “Pushing boundaries: High pressure, supercritical optical floating zone…

High pressure crystal growth of nickelates with a ScIDre HKZ furnace again yields a high-impact publication with remarkable results: Nature Communications published in one of its first 2018 papers a study based on the single crystal growth of LaNiO₃ single crystals by the floating…

In a recent publication in PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS 1, scientists from the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (MPI CPfS) report the growth of centimeter-sized high-quality single crystals of 50 % electron-doped Sr₂RhO₄ (Sr_1.5La_0.5RhO₄),…

Using their HKZ machine, scientists from the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Lab moved on from their highly successful single crystal growth of perovskite nickelate to the investigation of unusual cobalt perovskites. In the Journal of Solid State Chemistry, N. J.…

In a recent Nature Physics publication scientists from J. F. Mitchell's group at Argonne NL and their colleagues present the growth procedure and analysis results of the closest analogues to high-Tc cuprates yet reported: the nickelate Pr₄Ni₃O₈. …

Recent progress in instrumentation design for academic crystal growth is highlighted in a brand-new “Annual Review of Materials Research” publication by Julian L. Schmehr and Stephen D. Wilson from University of California. The authors give a comprehensive overview of recent innovations and fundamental…

The correlated-electron perovskite LaNiO₃ can be used to address some of the fundamental questions of transition metal oxides physics. Up to now, only polycrystalline samples of this nickelate have been generated. Scientist of the Materials Science Division under John F. Mitchell from Argonne National Lab managed to grow LaNiO₃ single crystals under high-pressure oxygen atmosphere.…

Scientists from the Heidelberg University, mainly Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, recently published their highly successful experiments in growing large, mm-sized single crystals of Li(Mn,Fe)PO₄ at elevated argon pressure using the ScIDre HKZ furnace. High-quality single crystalline samples of olivine-structured orthophosphates LiMPO₄ M = (Mn, Fe, Co, Ni)…

Jun Zhao's group recently composed a Nature paper based on neutron scattering data obtained on the inorganic quantum spin liquid candidate YbMgGaO4. The authors’ measurements suggest the existence of a clear upper excitation edge or a spinon Fermi surface for this material and might be the first momentum- and energy-dependent observations of a spinon metal.

The optically transparent, cm-sized…