Abstract

The travelling solvent zone method has proven to be one of the most efficient techniques to grow high-quality centimetric size single crystals of compounds exhibiting non-congruent melting behavior. The method has been sucessfully applied to growth of various 1D and 2D cuprates: superconducting La 2− x Sr x CuO 4, chain cuprates SrCuO 2 and Sr 2CuO 3 and spin-ladder Sr 14Cu 24O 41. Growth conditions and crystalline perfection assessment of these crystals are presented and discussed together with data relative to growth by the floating-zone method of congruent melting spin-Peierls cuprate CuGeO 3.

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