Single crystal growth of the new pressure-induced-superconductor CrAs via chemical vapor transport

• CrAs single crystal growth via chemical vapor transport.
• Significantly large size of 1 × 5 × 1 mm3.
• Similar to tin flux grown sample.

Mono-arsenide CrAs, endures a helical anti-ferromagnetic order transition at ∼265 K under ambient pressure. Recently, pressure-induced-superconductivity was discovered vicinity to the helical anti-ferromagnetic order in CrAs [Wei Wu et al., Nature Communications 5, 5508 (2014).]. However, the size of crystal grown via tin flux method is as small as 1 mm in longest dimension. In this work, we report the single crystal growth of CrAs with size of 1 × 5 × 1 mm3 via chemical vapor transport method and its physical properties.