Introduction to Crystal Growth and Characterization

Klaus-Werner Benz, Emeritus, was Head of the Crystallographic Institute of the University of Freiburg, Germany, and Founding-Director at the Freiburg Materials Research Center, FMF until September 2003. Prof. Benz was a member of the scientific project management of the German Spacelab Missions D1 and D2 and the European Space Mission EURECA1. From 1999 on he served as Vice-President for Communication Technologies and Science Transfer of the University of Freiburg. He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and has authored more than 300 publications in the field of material science, crystal growth and characterization, semiconductor physics and semiconductor technology and fluid dynamics in melts and metallic solutions of semiconducting materials.

Wolfgang Neumann was full professor of Crystallography at the Institute of Physics at Humboldt University Berlin from 1996 to 2010. Before that, he was a staff scientist at the Institute of Solid State Physics and Electron Microscopy of the Academy of Sciences in Halle (Saale) and since 1992 at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics at the same place. From 1985 onwards, he was a member of the Scientific Council of the "International Centre for Electron Microscopy" in Halle and mainly involved in the organization of international schools on electron microscopy and materials science. Prof. Neumann was the Director of this international Centre in Berlin from 2001 until his retirement from Humboldt University Berlin in 2010. His fields of scientific interests include: Structure investigations of nanostructured materials by means of analytical high-resolution electron microscopy, the study of defect formation during crystal growth and device processing as well as the analysis of order-disorder phenomena in crystals.

Wolfgang Neumann (Editor-in-Chief) and Klaus W. Benz (Consulting Editor) have collaborated for many years as main scientific editors of the materials science journal "Crystal Research and Technology".

Preface

FUNDAMENTALS OF CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS
Crystalline State
Fundamentals of Geometrical Crystallography
Morphological Symmetry of Crystals
Structural Symmetry
Crystal Structures
Crystallographic Databases and Crystallographic Computer Programs

BASICS OF GROWTH MECHANISM AND SOLIDIFICATION
Nucleation Processes
Kinetic Processes and Growth Mechanism
Phase Diagrams and Principles of Segregation
Principles of Flow Regimes in Growth Melts

GROWTH TECHNIQUES IN CORRELATION WITH RELATED GROWTH MECHANISM
Overview on Main Growth Techniques
Principles of Melt Growth Techniques
Bulk Crystal Growth of II?VI Compounds from the Vapor
Epitaxial Growth Techniques
Supplementary Material: Principles of Verneuil Technique, Growth from High and Low Temperature, Nonmetallic Solutions

CHARACTERIZATION OF CRYSTALS
Crystal Defects
Crystal Quality
Selected Methods of Crystal Characterization
Materials Engineering by Correlation of Crystal Growth and Characterization

Index