Physikalisches Institut, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, 60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Crystal Growth of Large Icosahedral Zn-Mg-Y Single Grains by a Liquid Encapsulated Top Seeded Solution Growth Method

In this paper we present our work on the single crystal growth of the icosahedral phase in the system Zn-Mg-Y. Taking into account the results of our previous systematic investigation of the phase diagram Zn-Mg-Y we have been able to grow single grains of the icosahedral phase with a diameter of nearly 1cm. We apply a Liquid Encapsulated Top Seeded Solution Growth method (LE-TSSG) in order to prevent Mg- and Zn-losses during growth.

Keywords: Quasicrystals, icosahedral Zn-Mg-Y, single crystals

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