ACCGE-16

The Sixteenth American Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy, ACCGE-16, will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of recent research and development activities in all aspects of bulk crystal growth and epitaxial thin film growth, with sessions integrating fundamentals, experimental and industrial growth processes, characterization, and applications. Contributed papers will be accepted in all relevant areas. In addition to focused sessions listed in the call for papers, other sessions may be organized based upon the topical distribution of contributed papers. The conference will include both oral and poster sessions. The ACCGE meeting will be held jointly with the 12th Biennial (US) Workshop on Organometallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy. The format of the joint conference will consist of 4 parallel sessions, 3 for ACCGE, and one for the OMVPE. The meetings will all be held in the Big Sky Resort. A single registration fee will permit attendees to attend any session in both meetings. A list of focused sessions together with the relevant chairs is given below:

Biocrystallization - Jennifer Swift, Georgetown University and Laurie Gower, University Florida

Bulk crystal growth - Dave Witter, Northrup Grumman Synoptics, and Mark Randles, Northrup Grumman Synoptics

Characterization - Kate Ziemer, Northeastern University, and Karen Kavanagh, Simon Fraser University

Correlated electron crystals - Brian Maple, UC San Diego and John Sarrao, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Crystal growth for beginners (a tutorial session) - Alex Chernov, Marshall Space Flight Center, Darrell Schlom, Penn. State University

Crystal growth of laser host and NLO crystals - Pete Schunemann, BAE Systems, and Kathleen Schaffers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Crystal growth fundamentals - Marty Glicksman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and James Warren, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Growth of quantum dots, wires, and other 3D nanocrystals - Joan Redwing, Pennsylvania State University, and Rod Beresford, Brown University

Growth of crystalline silicon and other photovoltaic materials - Juris Kalejs, RWE SCHOTT Solar, Howard Branz, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Stefan Gall, Hahn-Meitner-Institut

Industrial crystallization - Bill Bonner, Crystallod Inc, and Gabe Loiacono, Coherent Crystal Associates

Novel materials - Glen Kowach, City College of New York

Oxides films: ferroelectrics, dielectrics and beyond - Chang-Beom Eom, University of Wisconsin, and Stephen Streiffer, Argonne National Laboratory

Wide bandgap bulk and epitaxial growth - David Bliss, Air Force Research Lab, and Tom Kuech, University of Wisconsin

Plenary Talks:

Art Gossard, University of California Santa Barbara will present "Growth and doping behavior of epitaxial metal nanoparticles in semiconductors"
and
Frances Ross, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center will present "Nanowire formation: real time observations of catalyzed crystal growth"