| 8:15 AM |
“Dynamic Scaling in Dendritic Growth”, Arnon Chait*,
Vladimir Pines, Marianne Zlatkowski (NASA Lewis)
INVITED |
| 8:45 AM | “Application of Alloy Single Crystals to Studying the
Effects of Gravity on Microstructural Evolution”, Douglas
Corrigan* (RPI), Lynn A. Boatner (ORNL), and Gary
Workman and Leonard Adcock (U. Ala. Huntsville) |
| 9:00 AM |
“Thermal Transport (Soret) Effect on MnBi/Bi Eutectic
Directional Solidification Under Microgravity Conditions”,
D.J. Larson, Jr. and L.L. Zheng* (SUNY) |
| 9:15 AM |
“Ab Initio Predictions of Crystal Structures”,
Olaf Koenig*, Frank J.J. Leusen (Molecular Simulations, Ltd.) |
| 9:30 AM |
“Pressure and Mass Transport During Synthesis of
ZnGeP2”, I. Zwieback, P. Schunemann and T. Pollak
(Sanders/Lockheed-Martin) |
| 9:45 AM |
“High Temperature Crystallization in Borosilicate
Systems” N.I. Leonyuk* and E.P. Shvanskiy (Moscow
State U.) |
| 10:00 AM | Break |
* Denotes speaker
| 10:20 AM |
“Bulk Growth of GaSb and GaInSb”, P.S. Dutta and A.G.
Ostrogorsky* (RPI) INVITED |
| 10:50 AM |
“Crystal Growth of GaSb by the Liquid Encapsulation Melt
Zone Technique Under Microgravity and Terrestrial
Conditions”, Carlos R. Lopez, Jeff Mileham, Reza
Abbaschian* (U. of Florida, Gainsville) |
| 11:05 AM |
“A Transient Global Model for LEC Growth of III-V
Compound Crystals” H. Zhang* and V. Prasad (SUNY
Stony Brook) |
| 11:20 AM |
“Design of New High Pressure Crystal Growth System for
III-V Compound Crystals”, I. Jafri*1, H. Zhang2, V.
Prasad2, K. Gupta1, and D. Bliss3 (1 GT Equip.
Technologies, 2 SUNY Stony Brook, 3 USAF Rome Lab.) |
| 11:35 AM |
“Growth of CdZnTe Bridgman Crystals of Uniform
Composition”, Y. Tao and S. Kou* ( U. Wisconsin) |
| 11:50 AM |
"Influence of Impurity (Boron, Carbon, Phosphorous)
Addition on Silicon Melt - Oxygen Solubility and
Evaporation”, K. Terasima*, K. Abe, S. Maeda and N.
Nakanisha (Shonan Inst. Tech.) |
| 12:05 PM | Lunch |
* Denotes speaker
| 2:00 PM |
“Growth of Fluoride Crystals for Laser Applications”,
A. Cassanho (VLOC) INVITED |
| 2:30 PM |
“Czochralski Growth of Defect-Free Yttrium
Orthoaluminate in Iridium Crucibles”,
George Loutts* and Matthew Warren (Norfolk State U.) |
| 2:45 PM |
“Growth Studies of YAlO3 and Nd:YAlO3 Fibers Using
LHPG Techniques”, S. Erdei and R. Schlect (Lasergenics
Corp.) |
| 3:00 PM |
“Crystal Growth of Al2(WO4)3 by the Modified
Czochralski Method”, A. Dabkowski*, H.A. Dabkowska,
J.E. Greedan (McMaster U.), N. Imanaka, Y. Kobayashi,
G. Adachi (Osaka U.) |
| 3:15 PM |
“Growth of High Quality Barium Apatite Crystals for Laser
Applications”, George Loutts* and Lester Richardson
(Norfolk State U.) |
| 3:30 PM | Break |
| 3:50 PM |
“A Method for Identifying Host Lattices with Impurity Ions
of Transient Elements with d5 -shell Capable of Lasing”,
T.F. Veremeichik* and P.V. Konarev (Russian Acad. of
Science) |
| 4:05 PM |
“Czochralski Growth of Rare Earth Orthosilicates --Y2SiO5
Single Crystals”, Zhang Shouda, Wang Siting, Chen
Xingda, Wang Haobing, Zhong Heyu, Zhang Shunxing,
Xu Jun (Chinese Acad. of Sciences) |
* Denotes speaker
| 4:20 PM |
“Imperfections in Protein Crystallization”, A. Chernov
(AMMSA) INVITED |
| 4:35 PM |
“Physical Vapor Growth of Centimeter Sized Crystals of
a-Hexathiophene” Ch. Kloc*, P.G. Simpkins, T. Siegrist,
and R.A. Laudise (Lucent Technologies) |
| 4:50 PM |
“The Clapeyron Effect and Dendritic Crystal Growth” J.C.
LaCombe, M.B. Koss, L.A. Tannenhouse and M.E.
Glicksman (RPI), and E.A. Winsa and D.C. Malarik
(NASA Lewis) |
| 5:05 PM |
“Solvent Effects on the Habit of 3-Methoxy-4-Hydroxy
Benzaldehycle (MHBA) Crystal Growth from Solution”,
M.D. Aggarwal*, R.B. Lai, L.J. Salary and W.S. Wang
(Alabama A&M U., Normal) |
| 8:15 AM |
“Wide Band Semiconductor Materials and Devices”,
Michael S. Shur (RPI) INVITED |
| 8:45 AM |
“Modern Wiresaw Technology for Large Crystals”, I. Kao*,
V. Prasad, J. Li, M. Bhagavat and S. Wei (SUNY Stony
Brook), J. Talbot and K. Gupta (GT Equip. Technologies) |
| 9:00 AM |
“Magneto-Optical Imaging of Micro-Indented YBa2Cu3O(7-
x)Single Crystals”, Marina Turchinskaya, Debra L.
Kaiser*, and Douglas T. Smith (NIST) |
| 9:15 AM |
“Synthetic Moissanite: The Ultimate Diamond Substitute”,
Kurt Nassau (Nassau Consultants) |
| 9:30 AM |
“Measurement of Deep Level Optical Cross Sections in
InP:Fe Using Photorefractive and Absorptive Two-Wave
Mixing Techniques”, M. Chauvet*, S.A. Hawkins, G.
Salamo (U. Arkansas), and D.F. Bliss and G. Bryant
(Rome Lab, U.S.A.F.). |
| 9:45 AM |
“Gradient Freeze Growth of AgGa(1-x) In(x)Se2 Single
Crystals” P.G. Schunemann*, Ilya Zwieback and Thomas
M. Pollak (Sanders/Lockheed-Martin) |
| 10:00 AM | Break |
* Denotes speaker
| 10:20 AM |
“Current Status of Wright Laboratory Nonlinear Optical
Crystal Development”, N. Fernelius (Wright Laboratory)
INVITED |
| 10:50 AM |
“Novel Halides for Frequency Conversion Applications”,
N.B. Singh*, T. Rajalakshmi and L.G. Casagrande
(Sci.&Tech. Cntr., Northrup Grumman), S.R. Coriell
(NIST), M.E. Glicksman (RPI), W.M.B. Duval (NASA
LeRC) and Ching-Hua Su (NASA Marshall) |
| 11:05 AM |
“Hydrothermal Synthesis of Ferroelectric Single Crystals”,
R.E. Riman* (Rutgers), L.E. McCandlish (Ceramare
Corp.), M.M. Lencka (OLI Systems), S-B Cho, B.L.
Gersten, M.C. Gelabert and R.A. Laudise (Lucent
Technologies) |
| 11:20 AM |
“Single Crystal Growth of PbTiO3 by Hydrothermal Method
at Severe Conditions”, M.C. Gelabert* (Rutgers), R.A.
Laudise (Lucent Technologies), L.E. McCandlish
(Ceramare Corp.), and R.E. Riman (Rutgers) |
| 11:35 AM |
“Crystal Growth and Characterization of Pyrochlore
Related Pb2(NbZn)2O(6+d) Materials with High Dielectric
Constant”, H.A. Dabkowska*, A. Dabkowski, J.E. Greeden
and J.S. Preston (McMaster U.) |
| 11:50 AM |
“Study of Defects Resulting from Profiled Growth of
LiNbO3”, L.I. Ivleva*, V.V. Voronov, N.M. Polozkov, P.A.
Lykov (Russian Acad. of Sciences) |
| 12:05 PM | Lunch, Hotel check-out, Conference ends. |
* Denotes speaker