• unknown: Doping; Floating-zone technique; Borides; Soft X-ray monochromator materials
• unknown: Doping; Floating-zone technique; Borides; Soft X-ray monochromator materials
• unknown: Doping; Floating-zone technique; Borides; Soft X-ray monochromator materials

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  Accepted manuscript of Tanaka T et al. 2005 J. Crystal Growth 275 e1889 (NIMS only)
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Nb-doped YB66 single crystals were grown by the floating zone method using a 4 ellipsoidal mirror-type xenon lamp image furnace. Nb-doping is expected to improve the performance of YB66 soft X-ray monochromators. Maximum site occupancy of Nb achieved was 95%. Full-width at half-maximum of the rocking curve measured for CuKα 10 0 0 reflection achieved 40–50 arcsec. Thermal conductivity of the crystal with the maximum site occupancy increased about two times that of undoped YB66 crystals.