List of Contributors

Matthias Bickermann

Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth, Berlin, Germany

Institute for Chemistry, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Michal Bockowski,     Institute of High Pressure Physics Polish Academy of Sciences and TopGaN Ltd., Warsaw, Poland

Martin Bruder,     AIM Infrarot Module GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany

Kullaiah Byrappa,     Center for Materials Science and Technology, University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, India

Shayan M. Byrappa,     Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stony Brook University, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA

Peter Capper,     Selex ES, Southampton, UK

Chuantian Chen,     Beijing Center for Crystal Research and Development, Key Laboratory of Functional Crystals and Laser Technology, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS, Beijing, China

Hanna A. Dąbkowska,     Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Antoni B. Dąbkowski,     Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Jeffrey J. Derby,     Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Thierry Duffar,     SIMaP-EPM, Saint Martin d’Hères, France

Dirk Ehrentraut,     Soraa, Inc., Goleta, CA, USA

Stefan Eichler,     Freiberger Compound Materials, Freiberg, Germany

Jochen Friedrich,     Fraunhofer Institute IISB, Erlangen, Germany

Tsuguo Fukuda,     Fukuda Crystal Lab Co., Ltd, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Zbigniew Galazka,     Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth, Berlin, Germany

Bing Gao,     Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan

Juan Manuel García-Ruiz,     Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Laboratorio de Estudios Cristalográficos CSIC-Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Gunter Gerbeth,     Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

Martin E. Glicksman,     Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA

Regina Hermann,     Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Chuck Hsu,     Sino-American Silicon Productions Inc., Hsin-chu, Taiwan

Mamoru Imade,     Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Hiroyuki Ishibashi,     Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd., Ibaraki, Japan

Mitsuru Ishii,     Shonan Institute of Technology, Higashiyamato, Tokyo, Japan

Teruo Izumi,     Superconductivity Research Laboratory, International Superconductivity Technology Center, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, JAPAN

Manfred Jurisch,     Freiberger Compound Materials, Freiberg, Germany

Koichi Kakimoto,     Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan

Fumino Kawamura,     National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Takahiro Kawamura,     Mie University, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Alexander F. Khokhryakov

V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

Helmut Klapper,     Institute of Crystallography, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Krzysztof Kubiak,     The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, Department of Materials Science, Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Polish, Poland

Igor N. Kupriyanov

V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

Chung-wen Lan,     Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Anke Lüdge,     Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth, Berlin, Germany

Mihoko Maruyama,     Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Ma Eugenia Mendoza,     Instituto de Física, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

Noriyuki Miyazaki

Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Kyushu University, Fukutsu-shi, Fukuoka, Japan

Hans-Joachim Möller

Fraunhofer Technology Center for Semiconductor Materials, Freiberg, Germany

Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Institute for Experimental Physics, Freiberg, Germany

Abel Moreno,     Instituto de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Yusuke Mori,     Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Andris Muiznieks,     Department of Physics, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, (Deceased 5 April 2013)

Georg Müller,     Crystal Consulting, Langensendelbach, Germany

J. Brian Mullin,     Electronic Materials Consultancy, Poole, UK

Kazuo Nakajima,     Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Namratha Keerthiraj,     Center for Materials Science and Technology, University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, India

Teruhiko Nawata,     Tokuyama Corporation, Yamaguchi, Japan

Michael Neubert,     Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth, Berlin, Germany

Arkadiusz Onyszko,     The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, Department of Materials Science, Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Polish, Poland

Aleks G. Ostrogorsky

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA

Research on segregation was partially supported by NASA

Fermín Otálora,     Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Laboratorio de Estudios Cristalográficos CSIC-Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Yuri N. Palyanov

V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

Tania Paskova,     Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

Janis Priede,     Applied Mathematics Research Center, Coventry University, UK

Igor Pritula,     Institute of Single Crystals, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine

Victor G. Ralchenko,     Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Helge Riemann,     Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth, Berlin, Germany

Peter Rudolph,     Crystal Technology Consulting, Schönefeld, Germany

Keshra Sangwal,     Department of Applied Physics, Lublin University of Technology, Lublin, Poland

Nobuhiko Sarukura,     Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Christiane Schmidt,     Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg, Zentrum für Ingenieurwissenschaften, Halle, Germany

Yuh Shiohara,     Superconductivity Research Laboratory, International Superconductivity Technology Center, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, JAPAN

Jan Sieniawski,     The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, Department of Materials Science, Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Polish, Poland

Dariusz Szeliga,     The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, Department of Materials Science, Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Polish, Poland

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