The 0.5 and 1 at%Co2+-doped lanthanum magnesium hexaluminates (LaMgAl11O19, LMA) polycrystalline material was synthesized with high-purity (99.99%) La2O3, MgO, Al2O3 and analytical purity Co(CH3COO)2·4H2O by the solid-state reaction technique. The blue Co2+:LMA single crystal up to Φ 40×50 mm was successfully grown by the Czochralski method. X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) results show that the as-grown Co:LMA crystal belongs to the hexagonal system and P63/mmc space group. X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis indicates that the effective segregation coefficient of Co2+ ions in the Co:LMA crystal is hURL&_method=retrieve&_udi=B6TJ6-4GGWJ0D-3&_mathId=mml13&_user=10&_cdi=5302&_rdoc=9&_handle=V-WA-A-W-BE-MsSAYZA-UUA-U-AABZWZDDAY-AABBYVYCAY-CADBZUDDA-BE-U&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=10aaf23aa8e222ae89a265fba494bd49" title="Click to view the MathML source">keff(Co)=0.7487. The high crystalline quality of the as-grown Co:LMA crystals was confirmed by High-resolution X-ray diffraction (HRXRD), which showed the full-width half-maximum (FWHM) of the rocking curves to be less than 20 arcsec on the (0 0 8) and (2 0 0) diffraction planes of the 0.5 at%Co:LMA crystal. The average linear thermal expansion coefficients are α1