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…

Single Crystal Growth of Pure Co³⁺ Oxidation State Material LaSrCoO₄

Successful growth of large high-quality LaSrCoO₄ single crystals was recently performed and reported…

Johns Hopkins University press release: “Johns Hopkins Joins National Research on New Tech Components”

On March 4, 2016, JHU Office of Communications…

The crystal growth group from Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden succeeded recently in the synthesis of barium-substituted strontium ruthernates using a ScIDre high-pressure floating zone furnace HKZ.

High quality single crystals of Ba-substituted ruthenate Sr_2-xBa_xRuO₄, the "large volume variant" of the unconventional superconductor…

High quality single crystals of BaFe₁₂O₁₉ were grown at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA, using the ScIDre HKZ floating zone furnace with 100 atm of flowing oxygen. 

In a paper which was published end of June 2015 and selected as an Featured Article in APL Materials (

Heretofore unknown cobalt oxide with brownmillerite structure discovered in Argonne National Lab using the ScIDre HKZ floating zone furnace.

Various complex oxides and intermetallic compounds have been successfully grown with the HKZ floating zone furnace, yielding surpassing quality single crystals. However, the discovery of new materials with exceptional properties remains a claim to…