Adaptation and Optimization of Space GMR Technique : A Novel In-Situ Method for Simultaneous Growth of Single Crystals and Thin Films - A First Time New Feasibility Study

Development of a novel in-situ method for simultaneous growth of single crystals and thin films of a material. Material (Chromium doped Gallium Zinc Oxide) (CGZO) to be grown as metal - (Indium) (In) incorporated single crystal and thin film was taken as a precursor and put into a bath containing acid as a reaction speed-up reagent (catalyst) as well as a solvent with a metal as cation scavenger. By this novel method, Cr : IGZO crystals having trigonal, tetragonal, pentagonal and hexagonal facets and thin films having polycrystalline nature were prepared from a single optimized bath. Properties of both crystals and thin films were going to be studied using X-ray diffractometer (XRD) and Energy Dispersive Analysis by X-rays (EDAX). Combinations of ZnO were well-known wide band gap compound semiconductors, ceramics, opto-mechanical and used as anti-thermal coatings in aerospace vehicles. Thus a space_gmr technique was found to be a new low cost and advantageous method for in-situ and simultaneous growth of single crystals and thin films of a material.