Metastable growth and infrared spectra of CuB2O4:Ni single crystals

Evgeniya Moshkina; Maxim Molokeev; Nadejda Belskaya; Ivan Nemtsev; Anastasiia Molchanova; Kirill Boldyrev

doi:10.1039/D1CE00729G

Metastable growth and infrared spectra of CuB₂O₄:Ni single crystals†

Evgeniya Moshkina,

^a Maxim Molokeev,^abc Nadejda Belskaya,

*^ad Ivan Nemtsev,^abe Anastasiia Molchanova^f and Kirill Boldyrev

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^a Kirensky Institute of Physics SB RAS, 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
E-mail: nadejda-bels@mail.ru

^b Siberian Federal University, 660041 Krasnoyarsk, Russia

^c Department of Physics, Far Eastern State Transport University, Khabarovsk 680021, Russia

^d Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, 660037 Krasnoyarsk, Russia

^e Federal Research Center “Krasnoyarsk Science Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russia

^f Institute of Spectroscopy RAS, 108840 Troitsk, Moscow, Russia

Abstract

In this work, the formation of CuB₂O₄:Ni crystals in fluxes based on Li₂WO₄–Bi₂O₃–WO₃ solvents was studied. The crystallized phases were studied with respect to the WO₃ content and the mode of crystal holder insertion. A distinctive feature of the used flux growing mode is the metastable nature of nucleation: the desirable phase was obtained by using a super-cooled crystal holder – under insertion of a crystal holder cooled down to temperatures of the metastable zone. By powder X-ray diffraction, the composition of the obtained samples was analyzed. IR reflection and transmission spectra of the as-synthesized single crystals were recorded and analyzed in comparison with that of “pure” CuB₂O₄.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CE00729G
Article type: Paper
Submitted: 03 Jūn. 2021
Accepted: 18 Aug. 2021
First published: 18 Aug. 2021

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CrystEngComm, 2021,23, 6761-6768

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Metastable growth and infrared spectra of CuB₂O₄:Ni single crystals

E. Moshkina, M. Molokeev, N. Belskaya, I. Nemtsev, A. Molchanova and K. Boldyrev, CrystEngComm, 2021, 23, 6761 DOI: 10.1039/D1CE00729G

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