Progress In Crystal Growth And Characterization

The National Bureau of Standards with partial support from the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense is continuing a wide program of studies involving crystalline materials. These include investigation of methods and theory of growth, * study of detection and effects of defects, determination of physical properties, refinement of chemical analysis, and determination of stability relations and atomic structure.The types of materials range from organic compounds, through metals, and inorganic salts to refractory oxides. This report summarizes progress in those projects wholly or partially supported by ARPA.(Author).

The aim of this book is to provide a timely collection that highlights advances in current research of crystal growth ranging from fundamental aspects to current applications involving a wide range of materials. This book is published on the basis of lecture texts of the 11th International Summer School on Crystal Growth (ISSCG-11) to be held at Doshisha Retreat Center in Shiga Prefecture Japan, on July 24-29, 2001. This school is always associated with the International Conference of Crystal Growth (ICCG) series that have been held every three years since 1973; thus this school continues the tradition of the past 10 schools of crystal growth.

In this book, a variety of topics related to crystal growth is extensively discussed. The topics encompass the physics of growing single crystals of different functional materials, single-crystalline thin films, and even the features of crystallization of biofats and oils. It is intended to provide information on advancements in technologies for crystal growth to physicists, researches, as well as engineers working with single-crystalline functional materials.

The National Bureau of Standards is continuing diverse research projects on the growth and characterization of crystals.This note summarizes the individual NBS activities in this and closely related fie lds during January to July 1963. Lists of NBS publications appertaining to that period and of participating NBS scientists are appended.(Author).