The invention discloses a method for growing
yttrium iron
garnet crystals by adopting a composite fluxing agent. The
yttrium iron garnet (Y3Fe5O12, YIG for short)
crystal is an important
magneto-optical material and is prepared by the following steps: accurately weighing, mixing,
grinding and
sintering raw materials to obtain a polycrystal material, crushing the polycrystal material, adding the composite fluxing agent, carrying out ball milling to obtain a mixed material, filling a
crucible with the mixed material, heating the
crucible filled with the material to a set temperature, keeping thematerial at the temperature to obtain high-temperature molten
crystal solution, then carrying out
slow cooling until the solution in the
crucible is completely cooled and crystallized, conducting cooling to
room temperature to obtain a
crystal ingot, and removing the fluxing agent by adopting a mechanical stripping and
chemical corrosion method to finally obtain the crystal. According to the invention, through the lead-free composite fluxing agent, environmental
pollution caused by lead and the
corrosion to a
platinum crucible are greatly reduced, the growth temperature of the crystal is effectively reduced, and the bulk
single crystal with a larger size can be obtained.