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Gordon Banish
Edith Bourret-Courchesne
Edith Bourret-Courchesne has been a member of the AACG Executive Committee
since 1990. She has helped organize many crystal growth conferences at the
international, national and regional level and is the President of AACGE/West.
She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Montpellier in France and a MBA from
Boston University. She came to the US, first joining MIT then the Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory where she is Senior Scientist. She has been
involved in research on various aspects of crystal growth, from large bulk
semiconductors crystals to thin epitaxial films and nanocrystals and fibers.
She is currently involved in research for new scintillators, superconductor
crystal growth and development of alpha detectors and is leading the
construction of a new bulk crystal growth facility aimed at the development
of quantum materials and detector materials, scintillators and semiconductors.
She has authored or coauthored over 110 publications and holds 3 patents.
Edith is seeking reelection because she believes the ACCGE has a national and
international role to play to promote the field of crystal growth and because
working for ACCGE means interacting with a great group of people.
Antoni Dabkowski
Antoni Dabkowski is currently a Research Scientist at the Brockhouse
Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada. Education: M.Sc. in Physics, Warsaw University, PhD in Physics,
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences. Antoni has long time
experience in crystal growth of oxide materials; also in design, construction,
modification, computerization of crystal growth equipment. He has worked in
Liquid Phase Epitaxy (magnetic garnet thin films), Czochralski Method, Top
Seeded Growth from High Temperature Solutions, Directional Solidification/Bridgman
and Optical Floating Zone. He is recently interested in piezo- and ferroelectric
perovskites, thin films of electrically conductive oxides as well as in the
influence of substrates on film properties. He is author and co-author of
about 45 research papers. I believe in the importance of teaching crystal
growth and in undertaking an effort to collect important information for easy
and free access for the young generation of crystal growers. I would like to
actively participate in these activities.
Jeffrey Derby
Jeffrey J. Derby is currently Distinguished McKnight University Professor
and Executive Officer of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials
Science, University of Minnesota. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering
from Caltech, 1981, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering Practice from MIT, 1982,
and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT, 1986. Prior to his appointment
to the faculty at Minnesota, he spent two years with the Physics Department at
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research program centers on the
theoretical analysis of materials processing systems, especially crystal growth
processes, and has resulted in over 120 refereed and invited publications and
over 180 invited talks. Derby has received the NSF Presidential Young
Investigator Award, the University of Minnesota McKnight-Land Grant
Professorship, the ACCG Young Author Award, and the Research Award of the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is a member of the Executive Committees
of the National and Western Sections of the American Association of Crystal
Growth and is a Councilor to the International Organization of Crystal Growth.
He has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Crystal Growth since
1997 and served as the Program Co-chair for the International Conference on
Crystal Growth in 2007.
John Geisz
John Geisz is a Senior Scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
He earned his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of
Wisconsin (Madison) with Professor Thomas Kuech and his bachelor's degree
from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). John joined NREL in 1995 where
he has been studying the OMVPE growth and characterization of a variety of
III-V semiconductor materials for high-efficiency photovoltaic applications,
including dilute nitrogen and boron containing III-V alloys, III-V growth on
silicon, and lattice-mismatched growth. John is an author of over 100 scientific
publications and is chairman of the upcoming 14th Biennial Workshop on
Organometallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy to be held in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin in
2009.
Thomas Kuech
Thomas F. Kuech was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center from 1981 to 1990. He has been a member of the Chemical Engineering
Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison since 1990. He has served
in various capacities in the AACG serving as an officer at various levels and
is the current secretary of the International Organization for Crystal Growth.
He is also the Principal Editor for the Journal of Crystal Growth. His
research interests are in the areas of semiconductor epitaxy.
Chung-Wen Lan
Dr. C. W. Lan is Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering of National
Taiwan University (NTU) and General Director of Photovoltaics Technology Center
of Industrial Technology Research Center (ITRI). He is also Chairman of Taiwan
Photovoltaic Industrial Association, Vice Chairman of Photovoltaic Committee of
SEMI Taiwan, and an Executive Committee member of Asia Association for Crystal
Growth and Crystal Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science
from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has conducted research in
many international institutions including MIT, Aix-Marseille University,
Kyushu University, and Rossendorf Research Center in Germany. In addition to
winning several outstanding research awards from the National Science Council
of Taiwan, he received the first Outstanding Research Contribution Award from
NTU in recognizing his contribution to the industry in the advanced solar
silicon crystal growth technology. His research interests include crystal
growth, photovoltaic materials, transport phenomena, and high performance
computing. He has published more than 120 scientific papers and held more
than 15 patents. He is serving as Associate-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of
Chinese Institute for Chemical Engineers. His recently developed automatic
oxide growth technology has been transferred to the industry, and has enabled
the first successful sapphire crystal production in Taiwan.
Luke Mawst
L. J. Mawst received his B.S. degree in engineering physics and M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation research involved the development of
index-guided semiconductor lasers and laser arrays grown by MOCVD. He joined
TRW, Inc. in 1987, where he was a senior scientist engaged in design and
development of semiconductor lasers using MOCVD. He is co-inventor of the
Resonant Optical Waveguide (ROW) antiguided array as a practical source of
high coherent power, for which he received the TRW Group Level Chairman's
award. He developed a novel single- mode edge-emitting laser structure, the
ARROW laser, as a source for coupling high powers into fibers. He is currently
a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is involved in the development
of novel III/V compound semiconductor device structures, including vertical
cavity surface emitters (VCSELs), active photonic lattice structures,
InGaAsN lasers, and high-power Al-free diode lasers. He is a founder of
Alfalight Inc, a Madison based manufacturer of high power diode lasers. Prof.
Mawst has authored or coauthored more than 175 technical papers and holds
19 patents. He is a senior member of IEEE.
Irina Mnushkina
Dr. Irina Mnushkina received her B.S/M.S. degree in Physics in 1974 and
her Ph.D. in Physics/Material Science in 1984 from Dnepropetrovsk University,
Ukraine. Dr. Mnushkina worked for the Dnepropetrovsk University until 1991,
during which time she authored more than 20 publications and 5 patents. In
1991, Dr. Mnushkina and her family moved to the United States. From 1991 to
1994 she worked as a visiting scientist at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) growing BaTiO3 crystals and High Temperature Superconductors.
From 1994 to 2000, she worked at Deltronic Crystal Industries Inc. as a
Product Manager and Director of Crystal Growth Department, being involved
in development and commercial production of nonlinear optical materials
using Czochralski and top-seeded solution techniques. In 2000, Dr. Mnushkina
joined Integrated Photonics Inc. Currently, Irina’s interests lie in the
area of Liquid Phase Epitaxy and characterization of Magneto-optical Materials.
Dr. Mnushkina is involved in manufacturing and R&D as PI for SBIR projects.
Dr. Mnushkina is an active member of the Crystal Growth community, having
served as the Vice President and, currently, as the President of the local
Mid-Atlantic Section of AACG.
Christine Orme
Christine A. Orme is a physicist within the Chemistry, Materials, Earth,
and Life Science directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She
studied physics at the University of Michigan, receiving her Ph.D. in 1995 in
the area of surface evolution during vapor deposition. In 1996 she joined
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where she has served as a project leader,
group leader and institute director. Orme’s lab explores molecular processes at
interfaces and uses in situ tools to address how these modify the way that
materials assemble and disassemble. She is particularly interested in
biomineralization, biomimetic approaches to material assembly, corrosion, and -
underlying all of these - the fundamental physics of growth and dissolution.
She currently studies metal-organic interactions to understanding how ligands
direct shape control during synthesis. She is a member of the Institute for
Complex Adaptive Matter and has been a Bulletin volume organizer and conference
co-chair for the Materials Research Society. She is the recipient of a
Science and Technology Award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2001),
an Office of Science Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award (2002), and a
Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (2002) for her
work in biomineralization.
Roger Qiu
Roger Qiu is a staff scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Riverside
(UCR) in 2000. He received a National Science Foundation Fellowship from
1996-2000 and won the Poe Memorial Scholarship Award for outstanding graduate
research at UCR. He also won the First Place Award for the Best Student
Research in the “Leading Edge in Southern California Solid State Research”
Symposium. He was a senior staff physicist in Semiconductor Solutions,
Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA before taking a position at LLNL in
2002. In 2007, he organized the symposium “Biological Control of
Crystallization” at the 15th International Conference on Crystal Growth.
He also co-organized the symposium “From Biological Materials to Biomimetic
Material Synthesis” in the 2008 spring MRS meeting. He has authored more
than 20 publications and two invited review articles and edited the MRS
conference proceedings. He has also given numerous invited talks at
international conferences and major universities in US, Europe, and Asia.
His research interests include biomineralization, physics and chemistry at
the solid/liquid, solid/vapor interface, and high-temperature crystal growth.
Peter Schunemann
Peter Schunemann has been an active contributor in the crystal growth and
development of new laser host and nonlinear optical materials (particularly
ZnGeP2 and OPGaAs) for the last 20 years, authoring or co-authoring over 100
publications in the field. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Materials
Science and Engineering from MIT in 1984 and 1987 respectively before joining
BAE Systems (formerly Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company) in 1987. He has
served on numerous ACCGE organizing committees, and can be easily located by
his loud characteristic laugh. He lives in Hollis NH with his wife and 4
children.
Kathleen Schaffers
Kathleen Schaffers received her B.S. degree in Chemistry (1988) and her
Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry (1992) from Oregon State University. From 1992
to 1994 she was a post-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford University. Presently she
is a group leader in the National Ignition Facility & Photon Science
Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. For the last 14 years,
she has worked as an expert in crystal growth, materials research, and
fabrication for advanced laser concepts. These materials include, Yb:S-FAP
crystals for Inertial Fusion Energy applications and materials for frequency
doubling, a tunable laser scalpel, flat panel displays, self-frequency doubled
lasers, and mid-infrared lasers. She has been a member of AACG for 15 years
and has actively participated in and co-chaired meetings.
Darrell Schlom
Darrell Schlom is currently Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
at Penn State, but will move to Cornell in July 2008. He holds a B.S. from
Caltech, a M. S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University and did a post-doc at
IBM’s research lab in Zurich. His research interests involve the
heteroepitaxial growth and characterization of oxide thin films, especially
those with functional properties (ferroelectric, piezoelectric, ferromagnetic,
or a combination), including epitaxial integration with semiconductors.
He is particularly interested in the preparation of high quality oxide
heterostructures with electronic applications (e.g., superlattices and
metastable phases of dielectric and ferroelectric oxides) by MBE. He has
won various awards including an IBM Invention Achievement Award, an ONR
Young Investigator Award, the NSF Young Investigator Award, an Alexander
von Humboldt Research Fellowship, the AACG Young Author Award, the ASM
International Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers, Semiconductor
Research Corporation Inventor Recognition Award, and Fellow of the American
Physical Society. He was elected to Materials Research Society Board of
Directors for the 2005-2008 term. He has served on the Executive Committee
of the AACG since 2002, organized the ACCGE-11 short course and served as the
Conference Co-Chair of ACCGE-16.
Rosalia Scripa
Rose Scripa, PhD., P.E., is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering
at the University of Alabama at Birmingham with interests in semiconductor
crystal growth and microgravity. She has helped organize regional, national
and international crystal growth conferences, was proceedings co-editor for
ACCGE-11 and has served on the AACG Executive Committee since 1996. She has
been involved in NASA sponsored microgravity research in the crystal growth
area for more than 20 years and spent one year at NASA Headquarters providing
support for the Microgravity Materials Science Division and Glovebox
experiments aboard the Space Shuttle. Rose received the NASA/Marshall Space
Flight Center Certificate of Appreciation as co-investigator on a crystal
growth experiment aboard a 1992 space shuttle mission, the 1997 Alabama
Society of Professional Engineers Outstanding Engineering Faculty Award,
and the Outstanding Service Award from the National Research Council Space
Studies Board. She has served on the National Research Council Space Studies
Board Committee on Microgravity Research and is a co-author on the NRC
publication: “Toward a Microgravity Research Strategy.” Rose is a strong
advocate for continued governmental funding in the area of crystal growth.
Robert Sekerka
Robert F. Sekerka is University Professor, Physics and Mathematics, Carnegie
Mellon University, where he has been since 1969, where he also served as
Department Head and Dean. He holds a bachelor’s from the University of
Pittsburgh and AM and PhD degrees from Harvard University, where he was a
Woodrow Wilson Fellow. His doctoral work was concerned with the theory of
magnetic resonance directed by Nobel Laureate J.H. van Vleck. He is a fellow
of the ASM, the APS and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.
Awards include the Phillip M. McKenna Award, the Frank Prize of the IOCG and
the Bruce Chalmers Award of TMS. His research is concerned with theoretical
problems in materials science that lead to challenging problems in physics
and mathematics including the thermodynamics of stressed solids, transport
phenomena, surfaces and interfaces, phase transformations, the precise
definition of chemical potentials in stressed solids, the fundamental basis
of the Onsager reciprocal relations in multi-component diffusion and heat
flow, the influence of anisotropic surface tension on crystal shape, the
theory of morphological stability, phase field theory, and Lattice Boltzmann
modeling of fluid dynamical phenomena. From 2001-2007 he served as President
of the International Organization of Crystal Growth.
Marek Skowronski
Marek Skowronski is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and
Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His current research interests
are in crystal growth of wide band gap semiconductors and complex oxide thin
films, characterization of extended and point defects in crystals, and
reliability of electronic devices. He authored over 200 journal and conference
papers, book chapters, etc. Before joining Carnegie Mellon University in 1988,
he was a senior research associate at Cabot Corp. and a visiting scientist at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Skowronski holds a Ph. D.
degree in solid state physics from Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland. Prof.
Skowronski’s involvement in the crystal growth community includes organization
of ACCGE sessions (2000, 2007), and editing ACCGE (2005) and ISSCG (2007)
proceedings. He currently serves as an Associate Editor (Wide Band Gap
Semiconductors) of Journal of Crystal Growth.
David Snyder
David Snyder has been Technical Director of the Materials, Design, and
Process Technology Division and head of the Novel Crystals Department at the
Penn State Electro-Optics Center since 1999. His research interests include
bulk and thin film crystal growth, process simulation and thermal management
including sublimation growth of SiC, AlN and ZnS, Halide-CVD of bulk and
epitaxial SiC, Czochralski growth of YAG, LGNA and GCOB, Bridgman growth of
PMN-PT, solid state recrystallization of SiC, Al2O3, ZnS, ZnSe, Nd:YAG,
Ce:LuAG, LGN and YCOB, MOCVD of AlN/AlGaN, and MBE growth of integrated
oxide/nitride structures. Dr. Snyder was Technology Manager of Electronic
and Photonic Materials at II-VI Incorporated and led the development of
bulk growth, fabrication, and characterization of single-crystal SiC using
PVT, was co-developer of the patented Axial Gradient Transport process and
was responsible for research and production facilities for Bridgman growth of
CdZnTe. He also worked for Alcoa with responsibility for numerical
simulation and process development for low pressure shape casting, die
casting, aluminum/silicon carbide composite processing, polymer compression
molding, continuous ceramics sintering and thermal management of processing
equipment. He received a BS in Chemical Engineering from Penn State and a
PhD in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science from Carnegie Mellon.
Matthew Whittaker
Matt Whittaker entered the crystal growth industry from a background
in steel foundries in 1997. He received his M.S. from Case Western Reserve
University in 2000 as a graduate research assistant at Los Alamos National
Laboratory studying rare-earth scintillators. He then worked on lithium
tantalate development at Sawyer Research and on relaxor ferroelectrics at
Morgan Electroceramics before receiving his Ph.D. from Case in 2007. Matt
currently manages melt-grown electro-optic and acousto-optic crystal research
and development at Cleveland Crystals.
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