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SINGLE CRYSTALS OF STISHOVITE – THE HIGH-PRESSURE PHASE OF SiO2

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Colourless, transparent, well-faceted crystals of prismatic and bipyramidal habits with the different width to length ratio up to 1.5 mm in the largest dimension are growing using hydrothermal method at high pressure of 9.5 GPa and a temperature of 1200 K.

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 Contact person: Dr. Valentin Ryzhov. E-mail: ryzhov@hppi.troitsk.ru

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