CRYSTAL GROWTH METHODS

Crystal growth needs the careful control of phase change.

There are three main categories of crystal growth methods.

Growth from the solid:
S
processes involving solid solid

phase transitions
Growth from the solution or melt L
Processes involving liquid

solid phase transitions

Growth from the vapor
S
Processes involving vapor

solid phase transitions

Advantages
Solution Growth

of

Low

Temperature

Apparatus relatively simple and cheap

Single crystalsimperfections

free

from

strain,

dislocations

or

structural

Insitu investigation of crystal growth process

Growth of substances that undergo decomposition before melting