American Association for Crystal Growth

Membership in the AACG is open to everyone with a professional interest in crystals, thin films, crystal growth, epitaxy, and characterization.

Our membership includes engineers, scientists, educators, technologists, marketing representatives, and students. All share a strong interest in one or more facets in the field of crystal growth and epitaxy.

Annual membership benefits include discounted conference registration, annual newsletters, important career and conference announcements, and connection to the global crystal growth community.

AACG promotes the field of crystal growth with focus on networking, exchange of information, research and education. We offer bi-annual conferences rotating between a broader American Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy (AACGE) and a more narrowly focused ACCGE-West conference at Fallen Leaf Lake, California, USA.

Bharat Jalan
University of Minnesota
Congratulations to Prof. Bharat Jalan, University of Minnesota, who has been awarded the prestigious Schieber Prize of the International Organization of Crystal Growth for his “innovative work and scientific leadership in the field of crystalline oxide film and heterostructure synthesis and properties, particularly the development a powerful method known as hybrid molecular beam epitaxy (h-MBE), an important and impactful epitaxial growth technique with extraordinary capabilities and diverse applications”!

Partha Dutta

2023 AACG Award Recipient

Award Citation: For fundamental and experimental studies leading to the development of methods for growing large bulk crystals of complex ternary semiconductor compounds.

Peter Vekilov
University of Houston
The International Organization for Crystal Growth has announced that the IOCG Frank Prizegiven for significant fundamental contributions to the field of crystal growth has been awarded jointly to Professor Peter Vekilov of the University of Houston and Professor Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, University of Granada, for fundamental advances in understanding crystallization from solutions through discoveries of two-step nucleation, the role of surface diffusion, sources of step instabilities, and the emergence of life-like morphologies, mineral patterning, and giant single crystals in complex and natural chemical environments.