Tsuguo Fukuda & Valery I. Chani 
Shaped Crystals [PDF ebook] 
Growth by Micro-Pulling-Down Technique

to Micro-Pulling-Down Method.- Micro-Pulling-Down (?-PD) and Related Growth Methods.- Basics of the ?-PD Method.- Equipment Configuration.- Growth Phenomena and Crystal Chemistry.- Modification and Evolution of ?-PD Method.- Flux Growth of Miniature Bulk Crystals by the ?-PD Method.- Mixed Crystals: ?-PD vs. Czochralski Method.- Isothermal Flux Evaporation Diameter Control.- Eutectic Fibers with Self-Organized Structures.- Growth and Characterization of Oxide ?-PD Crystals I: Scintillation and Laser Materials.- Scintillating Bulk Oxide Crystals.- Scintillating Crystals: Ce3+:YAl O3 and Yb3+:Lu3Al5O12.- YAG:Nd3+: ?-PD and Czochralski Growth and Properties.- High-Melting Rare-Earth Sesquioxides: Y2O3, Lu2O3, and Sc2O3.- Mg Al2O4 Spinel Laser Crystals: Pure and Ti-, Mn-, or Ni-Doped.- Growth and Characterization of Oxide µ-PD Crystals II: Assorted Materials.- K3Li2Nb5O15 Fiber and Plate Crystals.- Piezoelectric Langasite-Type Crystals.- Shaped Sapphire: Rods, Tubes, and Plates.- Doped Li Nb O3 Crystals.- Growth of Olivine and Wüstite Crystals.- Growth and Characterization of Non-Oxide ?-PD Crystals.- Silicon Fiber Crystals.- Li F, Li YF4, and Nd- and Er-Doped Li YF4 Fluoride Fibers.- Binary Fluorides: (Gd, Y)F3 and K(Y, Lu)3F10.- Shaped Fluorides.- Metal Alloy Fibers.

Tsuguo Fukuda: Ph D from the University of Tokyo (Japan); professional experience in materials science and crystal growth from melt and flux: Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co. (Toshiba Corporation), Professor of Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University (Japan), Research Professor of Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, President of Fukuda X’tal Laboratory, over 600 papers and patents.

Valery I. Chani: Ph D from General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow (Russia); professional experience in materials science and crystal growth from melt and flux: General Physics Institute, Tohoku University (Japan), Mc Master University (Canada), Claude Bernard Lyon-1 University (France), over 100 papers and patents.