This process is typically preceded by nucleation, and it starts with the formation of a seed.
One method of performing this process uses a reflaxicon to convert a laser beam into a uniform hollow cylinder and can use a rotating platinum wire, and a more conventional method, unable to sustain the same pulling rate, involves passing a high-frequency current through a copper coil used to heat an iridium crucible and is named after Czochralski. Chemical vapor deposition is a variety of the "vapor-phase" form of another method for doing this; the "homo-" form of that method involves a substrate of the same chemical composition as the desired result. That method, epitaxy, involves performing this process in a layer-by-layer fashion. Flame fusion, or the Verneuil process, was the precursor for modern methods of doing this and was used to make the first synthetic gemstones. This process is typically preceded by nucleation, and it starts with the formation of a seed. For 10 points, name this process of making well-ordered solid materials.
One method of performing this process uses a reflaxicon to convert a laser beam into a uniform hollow cylinder and can use a rotating platinum wire, and a more conventional method, unable to sustain the same pulling rate, involves passing a high-frequency current through a copper coil used to heat an iridium crucible and is named after Czochralski.
{crystal growth} [or {crystallization}; or equivalents like making synthetic {crystals}; accept anything that is {too specific} for “{crystal}”, {e.g.}, {making synthetic diamonds} or {making silicon}]