The crystal growing tradition

Met Zach Fisk at a workshop - interesting, considering we've all descended from him. A couple of his off-the-cuff remarks were that fluxes he uses are sometimes binary: eg. to grow YbxCuyInz, he might use a Cu:In flux rather than just In as I would have guessed. Also, at one point I had considered using BeO crucibles instead of Al2O3 - I didn't actually end up doing this, but if one ever does, apparently BeO sucks up large quantities of water very quickly, and needs to be dried out before use each time. But apparently Zach Fisk's greatest asset is that he is very good at telling dinner party stories :)

Suchitra's famous!

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