{"id":480,"date":"2020-02-20T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/?p=480"},"modified":"2020-02-20T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T14:58:09","slug":"refractory-laser-oxyorthosilicates-single-crystals-are-grown-under-co2-laser-irradiation-without-use-of-crucible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/2020\/02\/20\/refractory-laser-oxyorthosilicates-single-crystals-are-grown-under-co2-laser-irradiation-without-use-of-crucible\/","title":{"rendered":"Refractory laser oxyorthosilicates single crystals are grown under CO2 laser irradiation without use of crucible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/02\/2019-12-12-J-Mater-Chem-C-Graphic-Abstract-TIF-1200dpi.tif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-481\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/02\/2019-12-12-J-Mater-Chem-C-Graphic-Abstract-TIF-1200dpi.tif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a>In a recent work published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C 8, 2065, 2020\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2020\/tc\/c9tc05910e#!divAbstract\">https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2020\/tc\/c9tc05910e#!divAbstract<\/a>\u00a0we show that a laser material with relatively low thermal conductivity can be grown with laser quality by the Laser Floating Zone growth technique using a CO2 laser as heat source for material melting.<\/p>\n<p>K<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/02\/2019-12-12-J-Mater-Chem-C-Graphic-Abstract-TIF-1200dpi-1.tif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-484\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/02\/2019-12-12-J-Mater-Chem-C-Graphic-Abstract-TIF-1200dpi-1.tif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a>ey steps for this achievement have been the selection of the\u00a0 (Lu<sub>0.3<\/sub>Gd<sub>0.7<\/sub>)<sub>2<\/sub>SiO<sub>5\u00a0<\/sub>composition to obtain single phase material upon resolidification and the engineering of the heating\/cooling cycles.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of any crucible to hold the material allows the melting of refractory compounds above 1500 \u00baC in oxidizing atmospheres.\u00a0 This suposses a great advantage for the devellopment of crystals for mode-locked laser producing ultrashort laser pulses.<\/p>\n<h1>This has been possible through the collaboration with the Aveiro University.<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-484\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/02\/2019-12-12-J-Mater-Chem-C-Graphic-Abstract-TIF-1200dpi-1.tif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent work published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C 8, 2065, 2020\u00a0 https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2020\/tc\/c9tc05910e#!divAbstract\u00a0we show that a laser material with relatively low thermal conductivity can be grown with laser quality by the Laser Floating Zone growth technique using a CO2 laser as heat source for material melting. Key steps for this achievement have been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/2020\/02\/20\/refractory-laser-oxyorthosilicates-single-crystals-are-grown-under-co2-laser-irradiation-without-use-of-crucible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00abRefractory laser oxyorthosilicates single crystals are grown under CO2 laser irradiation without use of crucible\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-sin-categoria","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/realm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}