“…Indium has been exploited even less as a synthetic flux medium than aluminum and gallium. Recently In metal was employed as a solvent for the synthesis of germanides Eu 2 AuGe 3 , 11 YbGe 3 , 12 Yb 4 TGe 8 , 5 Yb 5 Ni 4 Ge 10 , 13 where In acts as a non-reactive flux, as well as a number of intermetallic compounds in which In gets incorporated into the products including YbT In 5 (T = Co, Rh, Ir), 14 17 In this paper, we have used In as non-reactive flux for the crystal growth of EuGe 2 , EuCoGe 3 and Yb 2 AuGe 3 compounds. Semi-quantitative microprobe analyses of the samples were performed with a Hitachi S-3400 scanning electron microscope (SEM) equipped with an energy dispersive X-ray analyzer and phase identity and purity of samples were determined by powder XRD experiments carried out on a diffractometer using Cu Kα radiation.…”