Introduction to Crystal Growth and Characterization

Preface

FUNDAMENTALS OF CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS
Crystalline State
Fundamentals of Geometrical Crystallography
Morphological Symmetry of Crystals
Structural Symmetry
Crystal Structures
Crystallographic Databases and Crystallographic Computer Programs

BASICS OF GROWTH MECHANISM AND SOLIDIFICATION
Nucleation Processes
Kinetic Processes and Growth Mechanism
Phase Diagrams and Principles of Segregation
Principles of Flow Regimes in Growth Melts

GROWTH TECHNIQUES IN CORRELATION WITH RELATED GROWTH MECHANISM
Overview on Main Growth Techniques
Principles of Melt Growth Techniques
Bulk Crystal Growth of II-VI Compounds from the Vapor
Epitaxial Growth Techniques
Supplementary Material: Principles of Verneuil Technique, Growth from High and Low Temperature, Nonmetallic Solutions

CHARACTERIZATION OF CRYSTALS
Crystal Defects
Crystal Quality
Selected Methods of Crystal Characterization
Materials Engineering by Correlation of Crystal Growth and Characterization

Index

Professor Emeritus Klaus-Werner Benz was Head of the Crystallographic Institute of the University of Freiburg, Germany, and Director at the Freiburg Materials Research Center until September 2003. From 1999 on he served as Vice-President of the University of Freiburg for Communication Technologies and Science Transfer. He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and has authored more than 300 publications in the field of material science, crystal growth and characterization, semiconductor technology and fluid dynamics.

Wolfgang Neumann is Professor of Crystallography at the Institute of Physics of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He studied mineralogy in Berlin and obtained his Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees in Applied Physics from the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. Since 1997, he is Editor-in-Chief of Crystal Research and Technology. He became Director of the International Centre of Advanced Materials and Electron Microscopy in 2001 and serves as Chairman of the German Society for Crystallography since 2006. His research interests focus on crystallography, materials science and electron microscopy. He performs structure investigations of nanostructured materials by means of analytical high-resolution electron microscopy.

Wolfgang Neumann (Editor-in-Chief) and Klaus W. Benz (Consulting Editor) have collaborated for many years as main scientific editors of the materials science journal "Crystal Research and Technology".

K.-W. Benz, Humboldt University, Berlin,Germany; W. Neumann, Humboldt University, Berlin,Germany