Crystal Growth Technology Semiconductors and Dielectrics

by Scheel, Hans J.; Capper, Peter; Rudolph, Peter

• ISBN13: 9783527325931
• ISBN10: 352732593X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-04
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Summary

Semiconductors and dielectrics are two essential materials found in cell phones and computers, for example, and both are manufactured by growing crystals. Edited by the organizers of the International Workshop on Crystal Growth Technology, this ready reference is essential reading for materials scientists, chemists, physicists, computer hardware manufacturers, engineers, and those working in the chemical and semiconductor industries. They have assembled an international team of experts who present the current challenges, latest methods and new applications for producing these materials necessary for the electronics industry using bulk crystal growth technology. From the contents: * General aspects of crystal growth technology * Compound semiconductors * Halides and oxides * Crystal growth for sustaining energy * Crystal machining

Author Biography

Peter Capper is a Materials Team Leader at SELEX GALILEO Infrared Ltd (formerly BAE Systems), and has over 30 years of experience in the infrared material mercury cadmium telluride (MCT). He holds the patent for the application of the accelerated crucible rotation technique to Bridgman growth and is recognised as a world authority on MCT. He has authored/co-authored over 100 Journal articles and edited/co-edited/co-written 10 books on electronic materials and devices. He has served on several International Advisory boards to conferences, acted as co-Chair at an E-MRS Symposium (France) and a SPIE Symposium (USA) and has edited/co-edited several conference proceedings for J. Crystal Growth and J. Materials Science. He is also currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics and is a Series Editor on the Wiley Series `Materials for Electronic and Optoelectronic Appliations?. In 2008 he received an award from the Swiss Crystallographic Society for his bulk growth work.

Peter Rudolph is currently the coordinator of the technology department of the Leibniz-Institute for Crystal Growth in Berlin. His present research field is the growth of semiconductor crystals (GaAs, Ge, Si) in magnetic fields. He obtained the PhD in Solid State Physics at the Technical University of Lvov in 1972, and in 1985 the Professor position at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 1993-94 he was Guest Professor at the Tohoku University in Sendai. He is associate editor of J. Crystal Growth, president of the German Society of Crystal Growth and member of the IOCG executive committee. He is the author of one monograph, more than 200 papers and book chapters, 7 books editions and 33 patent descriptions. He acted as co-chair and advisor of several international conferences and schools. He received innovation prizes in 2001 and 2008.

Table of Contents

General Aspects of Crystal Growth Technology

Thermodynamic modeling of crystal growth processes

Prediction of s-l interface shapes and oxygen concentration distributions for 300 mm silicon crystals in a magnetic field

Modeling of vapor-phase growth of SiC and AlN bulk crystals

Advanced technologies of crystal growth from melt using vibrational influence

Convection during bulk crystal growth: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Compound Semiconductors

Defect characterization and control in VCz GaAs crystals grown without B2O3 encapsulant

The growth of semiconductor crystals (Ge, GaAs) by the heater-magnet technology

Sublimation growth of bulk AlN crystals

Behaviour of dislocations during Liquid Phase Epitaxy of GaN and CVD epitaxy of SiC

Low temperature growth of ternary III-V semiconductor crystals from quaternary melts

CdHgTe growth technology using ACRT and LPE

Influence of a Pt cold finger in the thermal environments during the growth of CdZnTe by the vertical Bridgman method

Halides and Oxides

Growth, computer modeling, and optimization of sapphire, garnet, and oxide crystals

Advanced material development for inertial fusion energy

Ceramic lasers and ceramic-crystal lasers

LPE of magnetooptical garnet films: preparation, characterization, applications

Growth technology and laser properties of Yb-doped sesquioxides

Continuous growth of large alkali halides: physics and technology

Trends in scintillation crystals

Crystal Growth For Sustaining Energy

Silicon crystal growth for photovoltaics

Low cost semiconductor and solar silicon

Crystal Machining

New developments in multi-wire sawing

Crystal machining using atmospheric pressure plasma

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