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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2013
Ut-battelle, Llc, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Boyd Mccutchen Evans, III, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Roger A. Kisner, Knoxville, TN (US);
Gail Mackiewicz Ludtka, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Gerard Michael Ludtka, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Alexander M. Melin, Knoxville, TN (US);
Donald M. Nicholson, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Chad M. Parish, Knoxville, TN (US);
Orlando Rios, Knoxville, TN (US);
Athena S. Sefat, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
David L. West, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
John B. Wilgen, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Abstract
A method of making a single crystal comprises heating a material comprising magnetic anisotropy to a temperature T sufficient to form a melt of the material. A magnetic field of at least about 1 Tesla is applied to the melt at the temperature T, where a magnetic free energy difference ΔGbetween different crystallographic axes is greater than a thermal energy kT. While applying the magnetic field, the melt is cooled at a rate of about 30° C./min or higher, and the melt solidifies to form a single crystal of the material.