Springer Handbook of Crystal Growth

Dr. Govindhan Dhanaraj is the Manager of Crystal Growth Technologies at Advanced Renewable Energy Company (ARC Energy) at Nashua, New Hampshire (USA) focusing on the growth of large size sapphire crystals for LED lighting applications, characterization and related crystal growth furnace development. He received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and his Master of Science from Anna University (India). Immediately after his doctoral degree, Dr. Dhanaraj joined a National Laboratory, presently known as Rajaramanna Center for Advanced Technology in India, where he established an advanced Crystal Growth Laboratory for the growth of optical and laser crystals. Prior to joining ARC Energy, Dr. Dhanaraj served as a Research Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stony Brook University, NY, and also held a position of Research Assistant Professor at Hampton University, VA. During his 25 years of focused expertise in crystal growth research, he has developed optical, laser and semiconductor bulk crystals and SiC epitaxial films using solution, flux, Czochralski, Bridgeman, gel and vapor methods, and characterized them using x-ray topography, synchrotron topography, chemical etching and optical and atomic force microscopic techniques. He co-organized a symposium on Industrial Crystal Growth under the 17th American Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy in conjunction with the 14th US Biennial Workshop on Organometallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy held at Lake Geneva, WI in 2009. Dr. Dhanaraj has delivered invited lectures and also served as session chairman in many crystal growth and materials science meetings. He has published over 100 papers and his research articles have attracted over 250 rich citations. Based on his accomplishments in crystal growth, he has been awarded with the most prestigious Extraordinary Ability Category O1 VISA status by United States BCIS. Kullaiah Byrappa received his Doctor's degree in Crystal Growth from the Moscow State University, Moscow in 1981. He is Professor of Materials Science, Head of the Crystal Growth Laboratory, and Director of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell of the University of Mysore, India. His current research is in crystal engineering of polyscale materials through novel solution processing routes, particularly covering hydrothermal, solvothermal and supercritical methods. Professor Byrappa has co-authored the Handbook of Hydrothermal Technology, and edited 4 books as well as two special editions of Journal of Materials Science, and published 180 research papers including 26 invited reviews and book chapters on various aspects of novel routes of solution processing. Professor Byrappa has delivered over 60 keynote and invited lectures at International Conferences, and several hundreds of colloquia and seminars at various institutions around the world. He has also served as chair and co-chair for numerous international conferences. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Ceramics. Professor Byrappa is serving in several international committees and commissions related to crystallography, crystal growth, and materials science. He is the Founder Secretary of the International Solvothermal and Hydrothermal Association. Professor Byrappa is a recipient of several awards such as the Sir C.V. Raman Award, Materials Research Society of India Medal, and the Golden Jubilee Award of the University of Mysore. Vishwanath "Vish" Prasad is the Vice President for Research and Economic Development and Professor of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at the University of North Texas (UNT), one of the largest university in the state of Texas. He received his PhD from the University of Delaware (USA), his Masters of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and his bachelor's from Patna University in India all in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining UNT in 2007, Dr. Prasad served as the Dean at Florida I

Fundamentals of Crytal Growth and Defect Formation.- Crystal Growth Techniques and Characterization: An Overview.- Nucleation at Surfaces.- Morphology of Crystals Grown from Solutions.- Generation and Propagation of Defects During Crystal Growth.- Single Crystals Grown Under Unconstrained Conditions.- Defect Formation During Crystal Growth from the Melt.- Crystal Growth from Melt Techniques.- Indium Phosphide: Crystal Growth and Defect Control by Applying Steady Magnetic Fields.- Czochralski Silicon Single Crystals for Semiconductor and Solar Cell Applications.- Czochralski Growth of Oxide Photorefractive Crystals.- Bulk Crystal Growth of Ternary III-V Semiconductors.- Growth and Characterization of Antimony-Based Narrow-Bandgap III-V Semiconductor Crystals for Infrared Detector Applications.- Crystal Growth of Oxides by Optical Floating Zone Technique.- Laser-Heated Pedestal Growth of Oxide Fibers.- Synthesis of Refractory Materials by Skull Melting Technique.- Crystal Growth of LaserHost Fluorides and Oxides.- Shaped Crystal Growth.- Solution Growth of Crystals.- Bulk Single Crystals Grown from Solution on Earth and in Microgravity.- Hydrothermal Growth of Polyscale Crystals.- Hydrothermal and Ammonothermal Growth of ZnO and GaN.- Stoichiometry and Domain Structure of KTP-Type Nonlinear Optical Crystals.- High-Temperature Solution Growth: Application to Laser and Nonlinear Optical Crystals.- Growth and Characterization of KDP and Its Analogs.- Crystal Growth from Vapor Method.- Growth and Characterization of Silicon Carbide Crystals.- AlN Bulk Crystal Growth by Physical Vapor Transport.- Growth of Single-Crystal Organic Semiconductors.- Growth of III-Nitrides with Halide Vapor Phase Epitaxy (HVPE).- Growth of Semiconductor Single Crystals from Vapor Phase.- Epitaxial Growth and Thin Films.- Epitaxial Growth of Silicon Carbide by Chemical Vapor Deposition.- Liquid-Phase Electroepitaxy of Semiconductors.- Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth of Semiconductors.- Liquid-Phase Epitaxy of Advanced Materials.- Molecular-Beam Epitaxial Growth of HgCdTe.- Metalorganic Vapor-Phase Epitaxy of Diluted Nitrides and Arsenide Quantum Dots.- Formation of SiGe Heterostructures and Their Properties.- Plasma Energetics in Pulsed Laser and Pulsed Electron Deposition.- Modeling in Crystal Growth and Defects.- Convection and Control in Melt Growth of Bulk Crystals.- Vapor Growth of III Nitrides.- Continuum-Scale Quantitative Defect Dynamics in Growing Czochralski Silicon Crystals.- Models for Stress and Dislocation Generation in Melt Based Compound Crystal Growth.- Mass and Heat Transport in BS and EFG Systems.- Defects Characterization and Techniques.- Crystalline Layer Structures with X-Ray Diffractometry.- X-Ray Topography Techniques for Defect Characterization of Crystals.- Defect-Selective Etching of Semiconductors.- Transmission Electron Microscopy Characterization of Crystals.- Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Characterization of Point Defects.- Defect Characterization in Semiconductors with Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy.- Special Topics in Crystal Growth.- Protein Crystal Growth Methods.- Crystallization from Gels.- Crystal Growth and Ion Exchange in Titanium Silicates.- Single-Crystal Scintillation Materials.- Silicon Solar Cells: Materials, Devices, and Manufacturing.- Wafer Manufacturing and Slicing Using Wiresaw.