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Low-temperature barium metaborate β-BaB 2 O 4 has been grown using a LiBa 2 B 5 O 10 -based solvent in a four-mirror optical floating zone furnace with a traveling solvent zone configuration. The β-BaB 2 O 4 rods grown are composed of several different crystal domains, ranging from 100 μm to 1 mm in diameter, and lithium, a component of the flux, was present only at the contaminant level. The technique demonstrates that thermal decomposition of the incongruently melting phase LiBa 2 B 5 O 10 can be used to grow β-BaB 2 O 4 .
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