Conference Symposia

ACCGE - Biocrystallization
Roger Qiu; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;: The symposium provides a platform for a diverse group of researchers from crystal growth, medicine, chemistry, physics, engineering, and materials science to discuss the current advancements in biomineralization, macromolecular crystallization and bio-inspired materials synthesis. The topics of interests include, but not limited to (1) Physical and chemical controls in carbonates and other model systems; (2) Tissue mineralization including bone, teeth, and pathological mineralization; (3) Crystallization of natural systems (ice); (4) Protein and virus crystallization; (5) Bio-inspired crystallization/biomimetic synthesis.
ACCGE - Bulk Growth
David Bliss; US Air Force Research Laboratory;
Aleksandar Ostrogorsky; RPI;: This symposium will cover bulk crystal growth from liquid and vapor phase. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: (i) melt growth, solution growth, physical vapor transport; (ii) innovative growth methods , e.g. detached growth or growth under applied fields (iii) computer modeling and simulation related to bulk growth. (iv) analysis of interface shape and incorporation of impurities. This cross-discplinary session will provide an opportunity as a forum for business and academia to share research results and exchange ideas in bulk crystal growth, focusing on new materials and applications in the field of green energy, nuclear medicine, and homeland security.
ACCGE - Correlated Electron Crystals
Emilia Morosan; Rice University;: Typical metals can be described by the Fermi liquid model, in which interactions between electrons can be neglected. Remarkable physical properties often arise when these interactions aren't negligible, in strongly correlated electron systems. Low-dimensional materials, superconductors and heavy fermions are examples of materials in which these strong correlations exist, and they are often intimately related to structural properties. The ground states in these systems are very delicate, and small perturbations can alter their properties. Understanding the structure-physical properties relationships, which in turn are grounded in the quality of the synthesized samples, is at the focus of our symposium on "Strongly Correlated Crystals".
ACCGE - Electrodeposition and Electroless Growth
Ingrid Shao; IBM T.J. Watson Research Center;: Electrodeposition and electroless deposition have been used widely in microelectronics, storage, nanotechnologies, energy, and other industries. This symposium will focus on the understanding and development of electrochemical deposition procecesses. It will cover topics ranging from atomic layer deposition to STM studies, stress evolution, nanostructure formation, and other broad aspects of the field.
ACCGE - Ex Situ and In Situ Characterization
Albert Davydov; NIST;
Suneel Kodambaka; UCLA;: The symposium provides a forum for ex situ and in situ characterization techniques and research opportunities for fundamental understanding of material synthesis and structure-property relationships. Controlled fabrication of advanced functional materials is a challenging task that requires the development and application of several state-of-the-art experimental tools to understand the morphological, structural, and compositional evolution at the atomic or molecular scale. In situ temporal and spatially resolved methods often provide new and unique insights into the underlying processes and complement the ex situ techniques.
ACCGE - Fullerenes, Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
Michael Capano; Purdue University;
Grace Xing; University of Notre Dame;: Research on the synthesis of carbon-based materials is the theme of this symposium. Materials of central importance to this symposium include graphene, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes. Of particular interests are contributions pertaining to the synthesis, properties and end applications for these intriguing materials. The goal of this symposium is to bring together leading researchers actively investigating these materials to identify breakthroughs as well as issues that may inhibit further development.
ACCGE - Fundamentals of Crystal Growth
Peter Vekilov; University of Houston;: This symposium will focus on the fundamental mechanisms which underlie the nucleation and growth of crystals in various media: vapor, ultra-high vacuum, solution, and melt. We have a slate of outstanding speakers, who will discuss the state-of-the-art in the hot areas of crystal growth research: biomineralization, formation and phase behavior of nanoparticles, geological crystallization, crystallization of proteins and other macromolecules, interfacial phenomena, modeling of transport processes, of phase behavior and of the elementary acts of crystal growth, medicinal crystallization, pharmaceutical crystallization, chirality and chiral separation through crystallization, macroscopic and microscopic aspects of pattern formation and others. Bridges linking the physical principles and the complexity of their applicability in biological, geological, laboratory and industrial systems will be built.
ACCGE - Industrial Crystal Growth
Govindhan Dhanaraj; ARC Energy;
Partha Dutta; RPI;: This symposium will cover the innovations made over the last decade in the area of large scale industrial crystal growth of bulk and thin film crystalline materials. We will bring together world-wide experts from industry, academia and research laboratories to present highlights of large scale processing techniques, and the development of large scale equipment being deployed today for bulk crystals and thin film production. In particular, emphasis will be given to crystal growth processes that are a combination of two or more traditional and fundamental crystal growth techniques (CZ, Kyropoulos, Bridgman, VGF, Float Zone, LPE, CVD, MOCVD, MBE, EDFG, ALD, etc.). The focus will be on processes that are suitable for delivering materials in large volumes (e.g., 1000\'s of kg or square meter areas) with product costs that are affordable and sustainable for large scale applications. Extraction and purification of raw materials, economic issues with synthesis and disposal of by-products are key issues that will also be covered. It is anticipated that the presentation by experts involved in various areas of mass production will foster cross-disciplinary ideas and interactions between scientists and engineers that will assist in the rapid development of emerging materials technologies such as for energy and medical applications (solid state lighting, photovoltaics, wind power, medical scanning, etc.).
ACCGE - Materials for Photovoltaics
Jerry Olson; NREL;: This symposium focuses on the latest developments and advances in materials for photovoltaic energy conversion including crystalline and multicrystalline silicon, II-VI thin films, high efficiency IIIV materials, organic semiconductors, and nanostructured materials, including quantum dots, wires and superlattices.
ACCGE - Nanocrystals, Quantum Dots and Nanowires
Kris Bertness; NIST;
Jerry Floro; University of Virginia;: This symposium will highlight the intersection between nanotechnology and crystal growth, with an emphasis on the unique properties of semiconductors, metals and oxides when at least two dimensions shrink below a micrometer. Quantum effects and the unique device architectures possible with one-dimensional and two-dimensional morphologies often motivate work in this field, as does the high degree of crystalline perfection despite lattice-mismatched growth. Topics of interest include growth methods, demonstrations of unique materials properties or device designs, and advances in the challenges of characterizing nanocrystals.
ACCGE - Nonlinear Optical and Laser Host Materials
Kathleen Schaffers; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;
Peter Schunemann; BAE Systems, Inc.;: The Nonlinear Optical and Laser Host Materials symposium will focus two related fields. The first are issues surrounding the growth, properties, processing, and device performance of nonlinear optical materials. Topics include, but are not limited to, crystal growth methods, characterization and elimination of defects, enhancements in size, properties and performance, fabrication techniques, and new materials. Papers on both birefringent and quasi-phase-matched nonlinear optical crystals are welcome. The second field are laser host materials. This part of the symposium will focus on advances in growth techniques for optical crystals and the introduction of materials for diverse laser applications. It will introduce new materials, mitigation of defect issues, and scaling of existing materials by improved growth techniques. Talks from all aspects of laser materials are encouraged. Results and advances in laser operation are also encouraged.
ACCGE - Novel Materials and Techniques and Future Trends
Glen Kowach; The City College of New York;
Hanno zur Loye; University of South Carolina;
ACCGE - Oxides and Halides
Antoni Dabkowski; McMaster University;: Magnetic, electrical and optical properties of known and novel oxides and halides seem to be inexhaustible and this makes these materials so attractive for such a long time. Both, applications and basic understanding of physics of these materials require single crystals and virtually all known techniques can be used to obtain single crystals, films, fibers or other crystalline forms of oxides and halides. This symposium is about all the different aspects of crystal growth of oxides and halides and about their properties. Complex oxides and halides usually have complicated phase diagrams - incongruent melting, oxygen partial pressure influencing the valence of cations, limited solubility in the case of cation substitution - just to name a few. It is also the purpose of this session to demonstrate how phase relations - in conjunction with specific aspects of crystallization process - can be exploited to control crystal structure, composition, defects and, ultimately, material properties to fuel further basic research and materials engineering.
ACCGE - Stress Evolution During Growth
Sean Hearne; Sandia National Labs;
Joerg Weissmueller; Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe;: It is an ubiquitous observation in thin film growth that stress is significant. Through its impact on the growth process, the stress affects the properties, for instance mechanical, electrical, and optical. This symposium brings together experts on various aspects of the related phenomena. Focus topics include in particular the following: i) the various scenarios behind the stress evolution in bulk film deposition from the vapor or from electrolyte, ii) the capillary forces at surfaces or in films of atomic thickness, for instance in underpotential-deposited metal layers or in self-assembled monolayers, iii), the interplay between stress and morphology during the initial stages of film growth.
ACCGE - Thin Film Growth, Epitaxy and Superlattices
Jerry Floro; University of Virginia;
Rachel Goldman; University of Michigan;
Thomas Kuech; University of Wisconsin-Madison;: This symposium provides a forum for the discussion of issues related to the growth of thin films and epitaxial relationships in thin films and nanostructures. A particular emphasis will be placed on the use of patterned substrates to control epitaxial growth. One session will focus on epitaxial growth of nitrides.
ACCGE - Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
W. Alan Doolittle; Georgia Institute of Technology;
D. Kurt Gaskill; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory;: The Wide Bandgap symposium will focus upon the latest advances in epitaxial and bulk growth of large bandgap (>3 eV) semiconductors. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, advances in high concentration doping, identification and reduction of point and extended defects, new characterization techniques esp. those of full wafer mapping, new approaches in bulk growth, advances in materials properties due to improved growth methods, and impact of new materials approaches on innovative device demonstrations.
IWMCG - Atomistic Modeling
Jeffrey Derby; University of Minnesota;
IWMCG - Bulk Growth (joint with ACCGE)
David Bliss; US Air Force Research Laboratory;
Jeffrey Derby; University of Minnesota;
Aleksandar Ostrogorsky; RPI;
IWMCG - Detached Growth
Jeffrey Derby; University of Minnesota;
IWMCG - Fundamentals Of Crystal Growth (joint with ACCGE)
Jeffrey Derby; University of Minnesota;
Peter Vekilov; University of Houston;
IWMCG - Global Modeling
Jeffrey Derby; University of Minnesota;
IWMCG - Microstructure Evolution
Jeffrey Derby; University of Minnesota;
IWMCG - Multiscale Modeling
Jeffrey Derby; University of Minnesota;
IWMCG - Novel Methods
Jeffrey Derby; University of Minnesota;
IWMCG - Vapor Deposition
Jeffrey Derby; University of Minnesota;
OMVPE Workshop - Devices
Simon Watkins; Simon Fraser University;
OMVPE Workshop - Low Bandgap Semiconductors
Russell Dupuis; Georgia Institute of Technology;
OMVPE Workshop - Solar Cell Materials
John Geisz; National Renewable Energy Laboratory;
OMVPE Workshop - Special Session
Robert Biefeld; Sandia National Laboratories;
Michael Tischler; Meranna, Inc.;: What Is on the Horizon for Improvements in OMVPE Tools, Sources, and Associated Equipment
OMVPE Workshop - Thin Film Nitrides (Joint with ACCGE)
Jerry Floro; University of Virginia;
Rachel Goldman; University of Michigan;
Jung Han; Yale University;
Thomas Kuech; University of Wisconsin-Madison;
OMVPE Workshop - Wide Bandgap Semiconductors - Devices (Joint with ACCGE)
Rajaram Bhat; Corning Incorporated;
D. Kurt Gaskill; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory;
OMVPE Workshop - Wide Bandgap Semiconductors - Growth (Joint with ACCGE)
Robert Biefeld; Sandia National Laboratories;
W. Alan Doolittle; Georgia Institute of Technology;
OMVPE Workshop -III-Vs on Silicon
Christine Wang; MIT Lincoln Laboratory;
OMVPE Workshop -Nanocrystals, Quantum Dots and Nanowires (Joint with ACCGE)
Kris Bertness; NIST;
Jerry Floro; University of Virginia;
Joan Redwing; Penn State University;

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