“…In the present study, single-crystal samples of SmAl 3 (BO 3 ) 4 were synthesized successfully from a flux based on bismuth and lithium molybdates (Temerov et al, 2008). As was shown previously, this method is highly efficient for the preparation of high-quality single crystals of ReAl 3 (BO 3 ) 4 with a trigonal structure (Chaudhury et al, 2010;Kadomtseva et al, 2014;Boldyrev et al, 2012;Volkov et al, 2015;Ivanov et al, 2013Ivanov et al, , 2017Denisov et al, 2014;Malakhovskii et al, 2017;Aleksandrovsky et al, 2010). However, the structure of the SmAB samples synthesized in our work using the same method is monoclinic.…”