Vis−NIR magneto-optical crystals are the key materials in the fields of optical fiber communication, smart grids, optical fiber lasers, and so on. In this paper, the incongruentmelting Tb 3 Al 5 O 12 (TAG) single crystals with centimeter size and high quality were grown rapidly by an EFG method with the suitable design of a melt component. The effects of the sintering temperature of polycrystalline materials, the melt component, and the growth rate on the crystal quality were discussed in detail. The Verdet constants, hardness, thermal expansion coefficients, specific heat capacities, and thermal diffusivities of TAG crystal were measured. The results show that the Verdet constant of the TAG crystal is 8−30% larger than those of Tb 3 Sc 2 Al 3 O 12 (TSAG) and Tb 3 Ga 5 O 12 (TGG) crystals. Additionally, the TAG crystal also has the advantage in both thermal conductivity and hardness. Therefore, the TAG crystal has good comprehensive performance and thus has important application prospects.

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Co -doped TiO2 crystals (Co:TiO2) were grown by Czochralski growth (CZ) method and the edge-defined film-fed growth (EFG) method, respectively. Therein, EFG was an effective method to grow a higher quality Co:TiO2 crystal without the reverse flow of the melt. This as-grown crystal reaches a larger dimension of 10 mm × 15 mm × 18mm. XRD analysis confirms that as-grown crystal is isostructural with TiO2 rutile phase. Moreover, this crystal has ferromagnetism at room temperature and the magnetic moment of Co ion is 1.25 × 10-2 μB/Co . After annealed at 1273 K, Co:TiO2 crystal enhances obviously its optical transmittance, while this crystal shows diamagnetism due to the disappearance of the ferromagnetic signal.