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Chapter II Solution Growth….
Chapter II
A Brief Review of Solution Growth Techniques and Study of
Nucleation Parameters of Pure and L - histidine, L-threonine
2.1 Introduction
and DL-methionine Doped KDP Crystals
Today, the growth of crystals does not remain the phenomenon only
occurring in nature, but it has become a well advanced as well as widely used
laboratory technique. There is a requirement of good quality crystals for
various applications and hence different methods are developed to grow
suitable crystals. It has been found that the crystalline property has
applications in devices such as: laser resonators, acoustic- optic modulators,
phase decay plates, polarizer, pyro-electric detectors, piezo-electric devices,
crystal X-ray monochromaters, scintillation detectors, holographic devices,
membranes of iron selective electrodes and substrate for thin films.
Single crystal plays a vital role in most of the above applications.
Therefore, the growth of single crystals and their characterizations towards
device fabrications are important in both basic and applied scientific research.
The development and refinement of methods of crystal growth processes to
achieve useful products have relied heavily on empirical engineering and on
trial and error method. Crystal growth still remains by large an art. The
classification schemes for growth techniques are summarized in table (2.1)
according to Laudise [1].
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