Scientists from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain invesitgate the crystal growth of Rb, Ti, Yb, Nb mixed epitaxial layers in order to optimise them to act as waveguides in photonics. Read more about their work in this CrystEngComm Hot Paper.
Crystal growth and characterization of RbTi1−x−yYbxNbyOPO4/RbTiOPO4 (001) non-linear optical epitaxial layers
Jaume Cugat, Rosa Maria Solé, Joan J. Carvajal, Maria Cinta Pujol, Xavier Mateos, Francesc Díaz and Magdalena Aguiló
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00647E, Paper
