In materials science, a single crystal (or single-crystal solid or monocrystalline solid) is a material in which the crystal lattice of the entire sample...

microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions. In addition, macroscopic single crystals are usually identifiable by their...

A seed crystal is a small piece of single crystal or polycrystal material from which a large crystal of typically the same material is grown in a laboratory...

crystal faces. Haüy's study led to the idea that crystals are a regular three-dimensional array (a Bravais lattice) of atoms and molecules; a single unit...

Crystal twinning occurs when two or more adjacent crystals of the same mineral are oriented so that they share some of the same crystal lattice points...

right spacings to be diffracted by crystals. In many cases these diffraction patterns can be Interpreted using a single scattering or kinematical theory...

A boule is a single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. A boule of silicon is the starting material for most of the integrated circuits used today...

Czochralski technique or Czochralski process, is a method of crystal growth used to obtain single crystals of semiconductors (e.g. silicon, germanium and gallium...

polycrystalline or single crystal ingots made by pulling from a molten melt. Single crystal ingots (called boules) of materials are grown (crystal growth) using...

Monocrystalline silicon, often referred to as single-crystal silicon or simply mono-Si, is a critical material widely used in modern electronics and photovoltaics...

In crystallography, crystal structure is a description of ordered arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules in a crystalline material. Ordered structures...

songwriter, actress and radio host. After releasing her first single, "Eternal Memories" (1999), Crystal Kay gained fame for her third studio album, Almost Seventeen...

can be deposited in single crystal form on indium phosphide (InP). GaInAs is not a naturally-occurring material. Single crystal material is required...

industry. Large, flawless, single crystals are synthesized in an autoclave via the hydrothermal process. Like other crystals, quartz may be coated with...

Inconel, Waspaloy, Rene alloys, Incoloy, MP98T, TMS alloys, and CMSX single crystal alloys. Superalloy development relies on chemical and process innovations...

excellent dry lubricant. While all single crystals will show some tendency to split along atomic planes in their crystal structure, if the differences between...

A crystal oscillator is an electronic oscillator circuit that uses a piezoelectric crystal as a frequency-selective element. The oscillator frequency is...

of only one seed crystal should result in a larger single crystal. The interface between a crystal and its vapor can be molecularly sharp at temperatures...

following the underlying crystal structure that causes the appearance of a six-rayed "star"-shaped pattern when viewed with a single overhead light source...

Liquid crystal (LC) is a state of matter whose properties are between those of conventional liquids and those of solid crystals. For example, a liquid...

bending of a single crystal can be used to illustrate the concept of geometrically necessary dislocation, where the slip planes and crystal orientations...

act as simple seeds. Growing crystals for X-ray crystallography can be difficult. For X-ray analysis, single perfect crystals are required. Typically a small...

grains in the microstructure. Time-independent plastic flow in both single crystals and polycrystals is defined by a critical/maximum resolved shear stress...

diffraction stands in contrast to single crystal diffraction techniques, which work best with a single, well-ordered crystal. The most common type of powder...

process for producing large single crystals of silicon carbide. Cree is the world leader in the growth of single crystal silicon carbide, mostly for electronics...

understanding of crystal structures is an important prerequisite for understanding crystallographic defects. Most materials do not occur as a single crystal, but...

molecules are highly organized into a structure known as a crystal. Some ways by which crystals form are precipitating from a solution, freezing, or more...

bulk crystal growth used to obtain single crystals. The largest application of the Kyropoulos method is to grow large boules of single crystal sapphire...

Crystal Castles was a Canadian electronic music group formed in 2006 in Toronto, Ontario, by songwriter-producer Ethan Kath and singer-songwriter Alice...

crystallography became commonly used for studying the crystal structure of polymorphs. Both single crystal x-ray diffraction and powder x-ray diffraction techniques...