Growth of quantum dots, wires, and other 3D nanocrystals

Session Chairs: Joan Redwing, Pennsylvania State University, and Rod Beresford, Brown University

This symposium will integrate experimental and theoretical efforts on the growth and characterization of nanometer-scale crystals, both by epitaxial and other synthesis methods. A broad coverage is intended, including for example the experimental study and applications of strain-driven self-assembled quantum dots grown by epitaxy, the vapor-liquid-solid growth mechanism of nanowires, imaging and other analysis of nanocrystals, modeling of the self-assembly and shape transitions of mesoscale crystals such as epitaxial nanowires and strained monolayer islands, and the synthesis of colloidal nanocrystals.

Invited Speakers:

Pallab Bhattacharya, Univ. Michigan, MBE growth and applications of III-V quantum dots
Elizabeth Dickey, Penn State University, TEM characterization of nanostructures
Max Lagally, Univ. Wisconsin, Growth of Ge quantum dots on Si
Werner Seifert, Lund University, Sweden, VLS growth of III-V nanowires
Vivek Shenoy, Brown Univ., theory and modeling of nanostructure growth
Xiaogang Peng, University of Arkansas, Rational Growth of High Quality Nanocrystals