Single-Crystal Growth of Metallic Rare-Earth Tetraborides by the Floating-Zone Technique

The rare-earth tetraborides are exceptional in that the rare-earth ions are topologically equivalent to the frustrated Shastry-Sutherland lattice. In this paper, we report the growth of large single crystals of <i>R</i>B<inline-formula> <math display="inline"> <s...

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Published in:Crystals
Main Authors: Daniel Brunt, Monica Ciomaga Hatnean, Oleg A. Petrenko, Martin R. Lees, Geetha Balakrishnan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-04-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/9/4/211