Crystal Growth in Science and Technology

ISBN-13: 9781461278610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 438 str.

H. Arend; J. Hulliger

Opis

Science and art of crystal growth represent an interdisciplinary activity based on fundamental principles of physics, chemistry and crystallography. Crystal growth has contributed over the years essentially to a widening of knowledge in its basic disciplines and has penetrated practically into all fields of experimental natural sciences. It has acted, more over, in a steadily increasing manner as a link between science and technology as can be seen best, for example, from the achievements in modern microelectronics. The aim of the course "Crystal Growth in Science and Technology" being to stress the interdisciplinary character of the subject, selected fundamental principles are reviewed in the following contributions and cross links between basic and applied aspects are illustrated. It is a very well-known fact that the intensive development of crystal growth has led to a progressive narrowing of interests in highly specialized directions which is in particular harmful to young research scientists. The organizers of the course did sincerely hope that the program would help to broaden up the horizon of the participants. It was equally their wish to contribute within the traditional spirit of the school of crystallography in Erice to the promotion of mutual understanding, personal friendship and future collaboration between all those who were present at the school.

Spis treści

A Theoretical Crystal Grower’s View of Phase Equilibria.- Nucleation.- Basic Mechanism of Crystal Growth.- Fundamentals of Melt Growth.- Fundamentals of Crystal Growth from Vapors.- Fundamentals of Solution Growth.- Fundamentals of Flux Growth.- Fundamentals of Epitaxy.- Fundamentals of Dendritic Growth.- Twinning in Crystals.- Polytypism and Crystal Growth of Inorganic Crystals.- Crystal Growth from Transparent Solution - Two Methods to Study Crystal Growth and Hydrodynamics of the Solution at a Time.- Industrial Crystallization.- Crystal Growth and Crystal Chemistry.- Crystal Growth in Solid State Physics.- Crystallization of Proteins and Other Biological Molecules.- Crystal Growth and Geosciences.- Crystal Growth and the Properties of Polymers.- Growth of Shaped Crystals.- Technologies Based on Organometallic Vapor Phase Exitaxy.- Grystal Growth in Technology Elementary Semiconductors: Silicon.- Technology of Crystal Growth Binary Semiconductors: II-VI Compounds.- Crystal Growth in Technology Binary Semiconductors: III-V Compounds.- of Molecular Beam Epitaxy.- Liquid Phase Epitaxy of Garnets.