Scope of Conference
Topical areas will include but are not limited to:
Fundamental Mechanisms
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Nucleation
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Interfacial kinetics
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Morphology
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Transport
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Modeling
Growth Techniques
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Melt growth
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Czochralski
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Bridgman/Stockbarger
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Heat Exchanger Method
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Vertical-Horizontal Gradient Freezing
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Edge-Defined Film-Fed Growth
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Stepanov
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Kyropoulos
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Bagdasarov
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Micro Pulling Down
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Float Zone
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Solution growth
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High Temperature Solution (HTS)
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Liquid Phase Epitaxy (LPE
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Hydrothermal
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Aqueous
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Thin layer growth
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Organo-Metallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (OMVPE)
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Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE)
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Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD)
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Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD)
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Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD)
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Chemical Beam Epitaxy (CBE)
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Atomic Layer Epitaxy (ALE)
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Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD)
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Sputtering, Thermal Evaporation, etc.
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Applications
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Industrial crystallization
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Photovoltaics
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Optoelectronics
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Fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals
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Biomineralization
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Nanotechnology
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Two-dimensional materials
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Highly-correlated systems
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Radiation detection
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Epitaxy of complex oxides
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Ferroelectric crystals and textured ceramics
New ideas
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Materials synthesis, discovery, and paths to commercialization
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Perspectives of crystal growth (historical session)
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Legacies (past award winners), revisited
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Breaking news