Springer Handbook of Crystal Growth

by Dhanaraj, Govindhan; Byrappa, Kullaiah; Prasad, Vishwanath; Dudley, Michael

• ISBN13: 9783540741824
• ISBN10: 3540741828
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-29
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

The Springer Handbook of Crystal Growth brings together the science and technology of growing crystals, defect characterization and techniques, and understanding the defect formation including defects modelling. This unique effort will provide users with fundamental understanding of crystal growth and defects with the latest instrumentation/ techniques available both for crystal fabrication and defects. Understanding in this rapidly advancing field deals with three main areas: Crystal growth and defect formation, growth methods, and various techniques used in characterization.

Author Biography

Dr. Govindhan Dhanaraj is a Research Professor at Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Stony Brook University, NY. He specializes in crystal growth of semiconductors and optical crystals, and defect evaluation using X-ray and chemical etching techniques. He earned a PhD degree from Indian Institute of Science, where he worked as a senior scientist and established an advanced Crystal Growth Laboratory at a National Laboratory presently known as Rajaramanna Center for Advanced Technology in India. He also was a Research Assistant Professor at Hampton University, VA involving himself in crystal growth research and teaching graduates and undergraduates. Dr. Dhanaraj has about 20 years of research experience on bulk and epitaxial crystal growth and characterization of optical and semiconductor crystals. 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.Dr. K. Byrappa is a Senior Professor at the Department of Geology, University of Mysore. He received his PhD degree and postdoctoral training from Moscow. He has established one of the well-known laboratories for Hydrothermal Crystal Growth and has authored more than 140 research articles and an advanced crystal-growth resource book entitled Handbook of Hydrothermal Technology (2001). He also edited Crystal Growth Technology (2003) and serves as an Associate Editor of Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials.Dr. Vishwanath Prasad is the Dean and Distinguished Professor of College of Engineering, Florida University. He established a premier Crystal Growth and Process Modeling Laboratory at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University. Dr. Prasad served as a director for AFOSR/DARPA Consortium for Crystal Growth Research consisting of six leading institutions in the United States and has about 200 research publications to his credit. He taught several courses on Process Modeling, Heat Transfer and Mass Transfer.Dr. Michael Dudley is a Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Materials Science at Stony Brook University. He specializes in defect characterization of bulk crystals and epitaxial layers using X-ray topography as well as transmission electron microscopy. He is the Head of Synchrotron X-ray Topography Defect Analysis Laboratory, and he is also the Director of the National Consortium for Synchrotron X-ray Topography for Defect Analysis. He has authored more than 230 refereed research articles on crystal defects and characterization. He teaches courses on X-ray diffraction, structure materials, imperfection in crystals etc. to graduates and undergraduates.