Immersion-seeded growth of large barium borate crystals from sodium chloride solution

Borate Materials in Nonlinear Optics

“…[54,55] To avoid flux inclusions completely, Czochralski growth from stoichiometric melts has also been attempted. Here a high temperature gradient near the melt surface has to be used in order to adjust a sufficient supercooling of the melt below the phase transition temperature to obtain b-BaB 2 O 4 directly.…”

New nonlinear optical crystal: Cesium lithium borate

“…This indicates that large, high quality CLBO crystals can be obtained more readily compared with LBO or BBO. 10,11 Though CLBO shows some hygroscopy, it is much smaller than that of KH 2 PO 4 ͑KDP͒. Crystallographic characteristics of the CLBO crystal have been investigated by using a Rigaku AFC5R diffractometer, and previously reported.…”

Controlled growth of large β-BaB2O4crystals based on theoretical guidelines

“…In order to control the crystal growth easily and avoid the phase transformation, many solvents have been used to grow BBO crystals, such as B (Levin & Mcmurdie, 1949;Huang & Liang, 1981;Wang & Huang, 1985;Jiang et al, 1986;Cheng et al, 1988;Feigelson et al, 1989;Gualtieri et al, 1989;Huang & Liang, 1989;Bordui et al, 1993;Oseledchik et al, 1993;Cheng et al, 1997;Kim et al, 1998;Chen et al, 2003;Bekker et al, 2009;Fedorov et al, 2002). Recently, Bekker et al (2012) reported the results of their investigation of the ternary reciprocal system Na, Ba// BO 2 , F, and grew large BBO crystals from the BaB 2 O 4 ÀBa 2 Na 3 [B 3 O 6 ] 2 F system.…”