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[ALPS15-05] Linear Thermal Expansion of Ba₂Ga₈GeS₁₆

Jonathan Goldstein², Michael Susner², Ryan Siebenaller^2,3, Shekhar Guha², Kentaro Miyata⁴, Ginka Exner⁵, *Valentin Petrov¹ (1. Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, 2. Air Force Research Laboratory, 3. The Ohio State University, 4. RIKEN, 5. Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski)

The thermal expansion coefficients of the hexagonal nonlinear optical crystal Ba₂Ga₈GeS₁₆ and their temperature dependence are studied.