Scope of Conference

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Topical areas will include but are not limited to:

 

Fundamental Mechanisms

• Nucleation

• Interfacial kinetics

• Morphology

• Transport

• Modeling

 

Growth Techniques

 

• Melt growth

  • Czochralski

  • Bridgman/Stockbarger

  • Heat Exchanger Method

  • Vertical-Horizontal Gradient Freezing

  • Edge-Defined Film-Fed Growth

  • Stepanov

  • Kyropoulos

  • Bagdasarov

  • Micro Pulling Down

  • Float Zone

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• Solution growth

  • High Temperature Solution (HTS)

  • Liquid Phase Epitaxy (LPE

  • Hydrothermal

  • Aqueous

 

• Thin layer growth

  • Organo-Metallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (OMVPE)

  • Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE)

  • Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD)

  • Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD)

  • Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD)

  • Chemical Beam Epitaxy (CBE)

  • Atomic Layer Epitaxy (ALE)

  • Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD)

  • Sputtering, Thermal Evaporation, etc.

 

Applications

• Industrial crystallization

• Photovoltaics

• Optoelectronics

• Fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals

• Biomineralization

• Nanotechnology

• Two-dimensional materials

• Highly-correlated systems

• Radiation detection

• Epitaxy of complex oxides

• Ferroelectric crystals and textured ceramics

 

New ideas

• Materials synthesis, discovery, and paths to commercialization

• Perspectives of crystal growth (historical session)

• Legacies (past award winners), revisited

• Breaking news