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Off-stoichiometric Melt Growth of LuBa2Cu3O6 + x Crystals

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Superconducting LuBa2Cu3O6 + x crystals up to 5 × 5 × 0.2 mm in dimensions were grown by spontaneous crystallization during slow cooling of Lu2O3–BaO–CuO melts and were characterized by thermal analysis, x-ray diffraction, and electron probe x-ray microanalysis.

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    L. P. Kozeeva, M. Yu. Kameneva, N. F. Beizel' & V. E. Fedorov

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Kozeeva, L.P., Kameneva, M.Y., Beizel', N.F. et al. Off-stoichiometric Melt Growth of LuBa2Cu3O6 + x Crystals. Inorganic Materials 38, 1026–1031 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020529421953

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