Crystal growth of multifunctional borates and related materials / / edited by Nikolay I. Leonyuk.

• TeilnehmendeR: Leonyuk, Nikolay I.,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel, Switzerland : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (116 pages)

Borate crystals are attractive for different technological applications because of their favorable physical and chemical properties like stability and high transparency, both high thermal and non-linear optical coefficients, making them ideal active media for highly efficient solid state lasers. In this Special Issue, different aspects of multifunctional borate crystals are discussed, including ortho- and oxyorthoborates and compounds with condensed anions, as well as their nonlinear optical and laser properties and piezoelectric characteristics. For this reason, complex investigations of the phase relationships in multi-component borate melts, the study of crystal growth conditions of novel high-temperature borates, and the development of the "crystallization conditions, composition, structure, and properties" concept will provide a scientific basis for growth technologies of high performance electronic and optical devices and components with a variety of industrial, medical and many other applications. In the meantime, these relationships can help to estimate the affinity of synthetic borate materials with their natural prototypes and structural analogues.

Table of Contents

About the Special Issue Editor -- Nikolay I Leonyuk Crystal Growth of Multifunctional Borates and Related Materials, Reprinted from: Crystals 2019, 9, 164, doi:10.3390/cryst9030164 -- Yi Lu, Peter Dekker and Judith M. Dawes / Liquid-Phase Epitaxial Growth and Characterization of Nd:YAI3(BO3), Optical Waveguides, Reprinted from: Crystals 2019, 9, 79, doi:10.3390/cryst9020079 -- Giedrius Sinkevicius and Algirdas Baskys / Investigation of Piezoelectric Ringing Frequency Response of Beta Barium Borate Crystals Reprinted from: Crystals 2019, 9, 49, doi:10.3390/cryst9010049 -- Enrico Cavalli and Nikolay I. Leonyuk Comparative Investigation on the Emission Properties of RAI (BO3)4 (R = Pr, Eu, Tb, Dy, Tm, Yb) Crystals with the Huntite Structure Reprinted from: Crystals 2019, 9, 44, doi:10.3390/cryst9010044 -- Feifei Chen, Xiufeng Cheng, Fapeng Yu, Chunlei Wang and Xian Zhao Bismuth-Based Oxyborate Piezoelectric Crystals: Growth and Electro-Elastic Properties, Reprinted from: Crystals 2019, 9, 29, doi:10.3390/cryst9010029 -- Johannes Buchen, Volker Wesemann, Steffen Dehmelt, Andreas Gross and Daniel Rytz / Twins in YAI (BO3), and K Al B2O, Crystals as Revealed by Changes in Optical Activity, Reprinted from: Crystals 2019, 9, 8, doi:10.3390/cryst9010008 -- Galina M. Kuz'micheva, Irina A. Kaurova, Victor B. Rybakov and Vadim V. Podbel'skiy Crystallochemical Design of Huntite-Family Compounds, Reprinted from: Crystals 2019, 9, 100, doi:10.3390/cryst9020100.