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Chapter II Solution Growth….
and design, three dimensional and transient continuum transport, phase
change phenomenon, and, ultimately, atomistic events. Altogether,
Neugebauer [35] highlighted the challenges in the accurate simulations on
crystal growth. According to his views, one naturally gets interested in a
problem on a microscopic scale , where the size of typical surface features
such as quantum dots, surface roughness, terrace length is in the order of 10
to 1000 nm and the characteristic time-scale to form such features is in the
order of seconds, the mechanisms leading to these structures, such as ad-
atoms, adsorption, diffusion, de-sorption, island nucleation, require an atomic
scale resolution , that is, a resolution in the length scale of 10 -1 nm and in the
time scale of 10 -13 sec.
2.3 Crystal Growth from Solution
Crystal growth from solution is one of the most widely used
techniques for the growth of crystals. This technique is practiced among the
crystal growth community next to the melt growth technique. The main
advantage of the solution growth is that the crystals are grown at
temperatures well below their melting points. A detailed inherent knowledge is
required for the melt growth techniques such as, melting point, melting
behavior, stability in reduced pressure and atmosphere, however, which is not
needed in the solution growth. Myriad technologically important crystals are
grown by this technique. Solution growth techniques can broadly be
subdivided as follows [11].
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