Single-crystal growth of aluminum tungstate-lutetium tungstate solid solution

Aluminum tungstate-lutetium tungstate solid solution was obtained in a single-crystal form by the Czochralski (CZ) method. This is the first report to demonstrate that the solid solution which cannot be obtained by a conventional polycrystalline solid-state reaction method, was successfully grown by applying the CZ method to modify the form from polycrystal to single crystal, (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 66.30.D: 81.10.