Plenary Speakers:
James DeYoreo (PNNL)
"They Call it 'Free Energy' So, Hey Why Pay?"
Thierry Duffar (SIMAP EPM)
"Defect Engineering in Bulk Crystal Growth"
Robert S. Feigelson
"A Retrospective on the American Association for Crystal Growth on its 50th Anniversary"
Kei May Lau (HKUST)
"Advantages and challenges of growing III-V photonic and electron devices on Si by OMVPE"
Topics and Session Chairs
Special Session: George Gilmer
Chair: Luis Zepeda-Ruiz (LLNL)
Special Session: Michael Schieber
Chiar: Jerry Stringfellow (University of Utah)
Fundamentals of Crystal Growth
Co-Chair: Baron Peters (UCSB)
Co-Chair: Boaz Pokroy (Technion)
Jim DeYoreo (PNNL)
Peter Vekilov (University of Houston)
Mu Wang (Nanjing)
Invited Speakers:
Peter Vekilov (University of Houston)
Frans Spaepen (Harvard)
Modeling of Crystal Growth Processes - ICCGE/OMVPE
Chair: Simon Brandon (Technion Israel Inst Tech)
Wolfram Miller (IKZ)
Moneesh Upmanyu (Northeastern)
Talid Sinno (University of Pennsylvania)
Thierry Duffar (CENG, France)
Invited Speakers:
Liverios Lymperakis
Natasha Dorpka
Bulk Crystal Growth
Chair: Merry Koschan (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Seth Bank (UT Austin)
Michal Bockowski (UNIPRESS, Poland)
Antoni Dabkowski (McMaster)
Christo Guguschev (Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth)
Seyed Koohpayeh (JHI)
Aleks Ostrogorsky (IIT)
Invited Speakers:
Daniel Rytz (FEE)
Robert Král (FZU)
Tomasz Sochacki (Institute Physics of the Polish Academy of
Sciences)
Nonlinear Optical and Laser Host Materials
Co-chair: Yasunori Furakawa (OXIDE Corp.)
Co-chair: Kevin Zawilski (BAE Systems)
Peter Schunemann (BAE Systems)
Invited Speakers:
Yushi Kaneda (University of Arizona zona and Oxide Corp.)
Dan Perlov (IPG Photonics Corp.)
Kevin Stevens (Northrup Grumman Synoptics)
Shekhar Guha (Air Force Research Laboratory)
Biological and Biomimetic Materials
Chair: David Kisailus (University of California, Riverside)
Detector Materials: Scintillators and Semiconductors
Co-Chair: Edith Bourret (UC Berkeley)
Co-Chair: Mariya Zhuraleva (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Seth Bank (UT Austin)
Candace Lynch (Inrad)
Industrial Crystal Growth Technology and Equipment
Chair: Matt Whittaker (Gooch & Housego)
Invited Speakers:
Professor Kei Kamada (Tohoku University)
"Development of mass production technology of Ce:Gd3(Ga,Al)5O12 scintillator for radiation imaging applications"
Professor Akira Yoshikawa (Tohoku University)
"Development of bulk crystal growth technology for novel functional crystals and their social implementation"
Nadine Schuler
"ULTRA-FAST AND HIGH-PRECISION CRYSTAL
ORIENTATION AND QUALITY MEASUREMENTS ON
CRYSTALLINE SEMICONDUCTORS"
Gisele Maxwell
"ADVANCES IN SINGLE-CRYSTAL FIBERS AND THIN
RODS GROWN BY LASER HEATED PEDESTAL
GROWTH: A REVIEW"
Advanced Equipment and Growth Technology
Chair: Kou Matsumoto (Taiyo Nippon Sanso, Japan)
Michael Heuken (Aixtron)
Xiaohang Li (KAUST)
Akinori Ubukata (Taiyo Nippon Sanso, Japan)
Invited Speakers:
Gary S. Tompa (SMI)
"High temperature OMVPE for new materials growth"
Tetsuo Narita (Nagoya University - Toyota Central Research Lab)
"Growth of high purity GaN for vertical electron devices and
characterization of electron and hole traps"
Iwan Davies (IQE)
"MOCVD in production-today and future challenges"
Surfaces and Interfaces
Chair: Elias Vleig (Radboud University)
Martin Albrecht (Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth)
Kerstin Volz (Marburg)
In situ Observation and Characterization
Co-chair: Matt Highland (Argonne National Laboratory)
Co-chair: Katsuo Tsukamoto (Tohoku University)
Invited Speakers:
Randy Headrick (University of Vermont)
Gen Sazaki (Hokkaido University)
"Optical In-Situ Microscopic Observation of Ice Crystal Surfaces"
James J De Yoreo (PNNL)
Characterization Techniques for Bulk and Epitaxial Crystals
Chair: Mark Goorsky (UCLA)
Mike Dudley (Stony Brook University)
Holger Eisele (TU Berlin)
Motoaki Iwaya (Meijo University, Japan)
Invited Speakers:
Andrea Lenz
Martin Holt
Hideto Miyake
Tomoyuki Tanikawa
Thin Film Growth, Epitaxy, and Superlattices
Co-chair: Ferdinand Scholz (Ulm)
Co-chair: Masakazu Sugiyama (University of Tokyo)
Seth Bank (UT Austin)
Xiuling Li (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne)
Kunal Murkherjee (USCB)
Kevin Schulte (NREL)
Invited Speaker:
Luke Mawst
"QUANTUM CASCADE LASER ACTIVE REGIONS GROWN ON
LATTICE-MISMATCHED SUBSTRATES BY OMVPE"
Wiebke Hahn
Nanocrystals, Quantum Dots, and Nanowires
Chair: George Wang (Sandia National Laboratories)
Alok Rudra (EPFL)
Hoe Tan (Australian National University)
Invited Speakers:
Erik Bakkers (TU Eindhoven)
2D Materials and Devices
Jim Maslar (NIST)
Suzanne Mohney (Penn State)
Joan Redwing (Penn State)
Materials for Photovoltaics and Other Energy Technology
Chair: John Geisz (NREL)
Kamran Forghani (Microlink)
Aaron Ptak (NREL)
Kevin Schulte (NREL)
Masakazu Sugiyama (University of Tokyo)
Hoe Tan (ANU)
Invited Speakers:
NED Ekins-Daukes (UNSW)
“Strain-balanced quantum well solar cells”
Bill McMahon (NREL)
“Fundamentals of Coalescence-Related Dislocations”
Takeyoshi Sugaya (AIST)
“High speed growths of III-V materials using MOVPE and HVPE for low cost photovoltaics”
Selective and Patterned Epitaxial Growth
Chair: Yuji Zhao (Arizona State University)
Seth Bank (UT Austin)
Invited Speaker:
Chris Palmstrom
Jung Han
III-V Epitaxial Growth for Devices
Chair: Luke Mawst (University of Wisconsin)
Amy Liu (IQE)
Christopher Pinzone (Thor Labs)
Jae-Hyun Ryou (University of Houston)
Kevin Schulte (NREL)
Marcus Weyers (Ferdinand Braun)
Invited Speakers:
Kolja Haberland (Laytec)
“State-of-the-art in-situ metrology during OMVPE in academic
research and industry”
Ryan France (NREL)
“Graded buffer Bragg reflectors for metamorphic solar cells”
Kevin Lascola (Thorlabs)
"Trends in Mid IR Quantum Cascade and Interband Cascade
Lasers”
III-V's on Silicon
Chair: Kei May Lau (University of Hong Kong)
Seth Bank (UT Austin)
Bernardette Kunert (IMEC)
Shadi Shahedipour-Sandvik (State University of New York
Polytechnic Institute)
Invited Speaker:
Gregor Koblmueller
Qiang Li
III-V Wide Bandgap Nitride Semiconductors and Devices
Ramon Collazo (North Carolina State University)
Daniel Feezell (University of New Mexico)
Jung Han (Yale University)
Jennifer Hite (NRL)
Isik Kizilyalli (U.S. Department of Energy)
Zetian Mi (University of Michigan)
Hideto Miyake (Mie University)
Yasu Nanishi (Ritsumeikan University)
Tim Wernicke (TU Berlin)
Christian Wetzel (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Invited Speaker:
Tetsuya Takeuchi
Elison Matioli (EPFL Lausanne)
"Nitride high power transistors"
Ramon Collazo
Narrow Bandgap Semiconductors and Devices
Chair: Simon Watkins (Simon Fraser University)
Ganash Balakrishan (University of New Mexico)
Seth Bank (UT Austin)
Leon Shterengas (Stonybrook)
BN Epitaxial Growth and Characterization
Hongxing Jiang (Texas Tech)
Tony Rice (Sandia National Laboratories)
Sergei Novikov (University of Nottingham, UK)
Invited Speaker:
Michael Snure
Silicon Carbide Materials and Devices
Chair: Govindhan Dhanaraj (Aymont Technology)
Michael Dudley (Stony Brook University)
Balaji Raghothamachar (Stony Brook University)
Invited Speaker:
Alex Galyukov
Santhanaraghavan Parthasarathy
Gallium Oxide Materials and Devices
Co-Chair: Shizuo Fujita (Kyoto University, Japan)
Co-Chair: Kevin Stevens (Northrup Grumman Synoptic)
Invited Speaker:
Adam Lindsey
OMVPE Workshop
Robert Biefeld (Consultant)
Russell Dupuis (Georgia Institute of Technology)
John Geisz (NREL)
Luke Mawst (University of Wisconsin)
Joan Redwing (PSU)
Jae-Hyun Ryou (University of Houston)
Shadi Shahediipour-Sandvik (State University of New York Polytechnic Institute)
Christine Wang (MIT LL)
Simon Watkins (Simon Fraser University)
Special Symposia
Symposium on 2D and other Low-dimensional Materials
Co-chair: Kevin Daniels (University of Maryland)
Co-Chair: Kurt Gaskill (NRL)
Symposium on Epitaxy of Complex Oxides
Co-chair: Ho Nyung Lee (Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratory)
Co-Chair: Judith Driscoll (University of Cambridge)
Co-Chair: Darrell G. Schlom (Cornell University)
Symposium on Ferroelectric Crystals and Textured Ceramics
Co-Chair: Jun Luo (TRS Technologies)
Co-Chair: Rich Meyer (Penn State)
Co-Chair: Zuo-Guang Ye (Simon Fraser University)
Co-Chair: Shujun Wang (U Wollongong Australia)