Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Novel Approach to Grow ZnO Bulk Crystals

LI Xin-Hua 1,2, XU Jia-Yue 1, SHEN Hui 1, LI Xiao-Min 1   

  1. 1. Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China; 2. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

  • Received:2006-02-15 Revised:2006-04-05 Published:2007-01-20 Online:2007-01-20

Abstract: Base on the crystallization behavior of the ZnO-PbF2 system, a flux Bridgman growth technique with a gas cooling system was developed for the growth of ZnO crystal. By optimizing the growth parameters, transparent ZnO crystal with the size of φ25mm×5mm was obtained from the high temperature solutions. As-grown crystal has wurtzite structure with lattice parameters a=0.3252nm and b=0.5209nm, respectively. The preferred growth direction of the ZnO crystals is [0001] determined by X-ray orientation. The growth results show that the flux Bridgman method is a potential approach to grow large size ZnO crystals at low cost.

Key words: ZnO crystal, crystal growth, flux bridgman technique

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