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As an essential aspect of our research approach, we grow our own single crystals using a variety of experimental techniques to set up the platform for further investigation of their underlying physics. Below we give a number of such examples. The crystals we show here are categorized by their respective synthesis method.

Chemical Vapor Transport

Left to right: ^†van der Waals Mott insulator 1T-TaS₂, ^†kagome metals Fe₃Ge, Ni₃In, ^§type-I multiferroic Fe₂Mo₃O₈, ^§skyrmion-hosting polar multiferroic VOSe₂O₅

Flux

Left to right: ^†delafossite K_0.5RhO₂, ^†charge density wave TbTe₃, ^†topological semimetal CeSb, ^†kagome metal RhPb, ^§triangular lattice magnetic semimetal EuZnGe, ^§multiferroic GdFe₃(BO₃)₄

Zone Refining and Czochralski Method

Left to right: ^†heavy fermion CePd₂Si₂, ^†quadrupolar ordered DyB₂C₂, ^†Shastry-Sutherland lattice HoB₄, ^†triangular lattice YbMgGaO₄, ^§centrosymmetric skyrmion Gd₂PdSi₃

Bridgman-Stockbarger Method

Left to right: ^§van der Waals multiferroics MnI₂, NiI₂, ^†topological insulator (Ge,Sn)Bi₂Te₄, ^†Cu-intercalated Rashba polar semiconductor BiTeI

Photo credits: ^†L.Ye, ^§T. Kurumaji