This Handbook brings together the science and technology of growing crystals, defect characterization and techniques, and understanding of the process of defect formation, including defects modeling, and the latest instrumentation and techniques.

Over the years, many successful attempts have been chapters in this part describe the well-known processes made to describe the art and science of crystal growth, such as Czochralski, Kyropoulos, Bridgman, and o- and many review articles, monographs, symposium v- ing zone, and focus speci cally on recent advances in umes, and handbooks have been published to present improving these methodologies such as application of comprehensive reviews of the advances made in this magnetic elds, orientation of the growth axis, intro- eld. These publications are testament to the grow- duction of a pedestal, and shaped growth. They also ing interest in both bulk and thin- lm crystals because cover a wide range of materials from silicon and III-V of their electronic, optical, mechanical, microstructural, compounds to oxides and uorides. and other properties, and their diverse scienti c and The third part, Part C of the book, focuses on - technological applications. Indeed, most modern ad- lution growth. The various aspects of hydrothermal vances in semiconductor and optical devices would growth are discussed in two chapters, while three other not have been possible without the development of chapters present an overview of the nonlinear and laser many elemental, binary, ternary, and other compound crystals, KTP and KDP. The knowledge on the effect of crystals of varying properties and large sizes. The gravity on solution growth is presented through a c- literature devoted to basic understanding of growth parison of growth on Earth versus in a microgravity mechanisms, defect formation, and growth processes environment.

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Dr. Govindhan Dhanaraj is the Manager of Crystal Growth Technologies at Advanced Renewable Energy Company (ARC Energy) at Nashua, New Hampshire (USA) focusing on the growth of large size sapphire crystals for LED lighting applications, characterization and related crystal growth furnace development. He received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and his Master of Science from Anna University (India). Immediately after his doctoral degree, Dr. Dhanaraj joined a National Laboratory, presently known as Rajaramanna Center for Advanced Technology in India, where he established an advanced Crystal Growth Laboratory for the growth of optical and laser crystals. Prior to joining ARC Energy, Dr. Dhanaraj served as a Research Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stony Brook University, NY, and also held a position of Research Assistant Professor at Hampton University, VA. During his 25 years of focused expertise in crystal growth research, he has developed optical, laser and semiconductor bulk crystals and SiC epitaxial films using solution, flux, Czochralski, Bridgeman, gel and vapor methods, and characterized them using x-ray topography, synchrotron topography, chemical etching and optical and atomic force microscopic techniques. He co-organized a symposium on Industrial Crystal Growth under the 17th American Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy in conjunction with the 14th US Biennial Workshop on Organometallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy held at Lake Geneva, WI in 2009. Dr. Dhanaraj has delivered invited lectures and also served as session chairman in many crystal growth and materials science meetings. He has published over 100 papers and his research articles have attracted over 250 rich citations. Based on his accomplishments in crystal growth, he has been awarded with the most prestigious Extraordinary Ability Category O1 VISA status by United States BCIS.

Kullaiah Byrappa received his Doctor's degree in Crystal Growth from the Moscow State University, Moscow in 1981. He is Professor of Materials Science, Head of the Crystal Growth Laboratory, and Director of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell of the University of Mysore, India. His current research is in crystal engineering of polyscale materials through novel solution processing routes, particularly covering hydrothermal, solvothermal and supercritical methods. Professor Byrappa has co-authored the Handbook of Hydrothermal Technology, and edited 4 books as well as two special editions of Journal of Materials Science, and published 180 research papers including 26 invited reviews and book chapters on various aspects of novel routes of solution processing. Professor Byrappa has delivered over 60 keynote and invited lectures at International Conferences, and several hundreds of colloquia and seminars at various institutions around the world. He has also served as chair and co-chair for numerous international conferences. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Ceramics. Professor Byrappa is serving in several international committees and commissions related to crystallography, crystal growth, and materials science. He is the Founder Secretary of the International Solvothermal and Hydrothermal Association. Professor Byrappa is a recipient of several awards such as the Sir C.V. Raman Award, Materials Research Society of India Medal, and the Golden Jubilee Award of the University of Mysore.

Vishwanath "Vish" Prasad is the Vice President for Research and Economic Development and Professor of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at the University of North Texas (UNT), one of the largest university in the state of Texas. He received his PhD from the University of Delaware (USA), his Masters of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and his bachelor's from Patna University in India all in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining UNT in 2007, Dr. Prasad served as the Dean at Florida International University (FIU) in Mia

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Table of Contents
Part A: Fundamentals of Crystal Growth and Defect Formation
Chap. 1. Crystal Growth Techniques and Characterization (G. Dhanaraj, K. Byrappa, V. Prasad, M. Dudley)
Chap. 2. Nucleation at Surfaces, (I. Markov)
Chap. 3. Morphology of Crystals Grown from Solution (F. Abbona, D. Aquilano)
Chap. 4. Generation and Propagation of Defects During Crystal Growth (H. Klapper)
Chap. 5. Single Crystals Grown Under Unconstrained Conditions (I. Sunagawa)
Part B: Crystal Growth from Melt Techniques
Chap. 6. Defect Formation During Crystal Growth from the Melt (P. Rudolph)
Chap. 7. Indium Phosphide: Crystal Growth and Defect Control by Applying Steady Magnetic Fields (D. Bliss)
Chap. 8.Czochralski Silicon Single Crystals for Semiconductor and Solar Cell Applications (K. Kakimoto)
Chap. 9.Czochralski Growth of Oxide Photorefractive Crystals (E. Dieguez, J.L.Plaza, M. D. Aggarwal, A. K. Batra)
Chap. 10. Bulk Crystal Growth of Ternary III-V Semiconductors (P.S. Dutta)
Chap. 11. Growth/Characterization of Antimony-Based Narrow-Bandgap III-V Semiconductor Crystals (V.K. Dixit, H. L. Bhat)
Chap. 12. Crystal Growth of Oxides by Optical Floating Zone Technique (H. Dabkowska, A. Dabkowski)
Chap. 13. Laser-Heated Pedestal Growth of Oxide Fibers (M.R.B. Andreeta, C. Hernandes)
Chap. 14. Synthesis of Refractory Materials by Skull Melting Technique (V.V. Osiko, M.A. Borik, E.E. Lomonova)
Chap. 15. Crystal Growth of Laser Host Fluorides and Oxides (J. Xu, H. Li)
Chap. 16. Shaped Crystal Growth (V. Tatartchenko)
Part C: Solution Growth of Crystals
Chap. 17. Bulk Single Crystals Grown from Solution on Earth and in Microgravity (M. Aggarwal, A. Batra, R. Lal, B. Penn, D. Frazier)
Chap. 18. Hydrothermal Growth of Polyscale Crystals (K. Byrappa)Chap. 19. Hydrothermal and Ammonothermal Growth of ZnO and GaN (M.Callahan, Q.S. Chen)
Chap. 20. Stoichiometry and Domain Structure of KTP-Type Nonlinear Optical Crystals (M. Roth)
Chap. 21. High-Temperature Solution Growth: Application to Laser …