PLENARY AND INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS

PLENARY LECTURES

Roberto FORNARI 
Novel Technologies, Numerical Modelling and Thermodynamic Computation for the Crystal Growth of Complex Materials

Martin GREEN
Future of Si Wafer Technology

Joseph GREENE
Fundamental Properties of Transition Metal Nitrides: Design Strategies for Growth of Self-organized Nitride Nanostructures

Thomas KUECH
Vapor Phase Growth of Complex Semiconductor Alloys

 

INVITED PAPERS

Gerard AKA
Challenge of Blue-Green Laser from Nd 4F3/2 ®4I9/2 Laser Transition or Ytterbium Doped Crystalline Hosts: Review of Crystal Growth and Laser Performances

Giuseppe ANNINO
Millimeter Wave Electromagnetic Characterization by Means of Whispering Gallery Mode Technique: from Dielectric Properties to Microstructure Information

Stefan ANTOHE
Effect of Protons and Alpha Particles Irradiation on the Performances of CdS/CdTe Photovoltaic Cells

Luc AVÉROUS
Novel Biobased Materials for Environmental and Biomedical Applications

Anna-Karin AXELSSON
Electrocalorics as a Solid State Cooler; Evaluation from Direct and Indirect Measurement of Ferroelectric Relaxors

Nick BARRETT
Full Field Electron Spectromicroscopy of Ferroelectrics

Matthias BICKERMANN
AlN Single Crystals as Substrates for Deep-UV Optoelectronics

Daniel BILC
Tunneling across a Ferroelectric Barrier: a First-Principles Study

Petrica CRISTEA
Thermodynamic and Kinetic Properties of Non-stoichiometric Nuclear Fuels

Rodica CRISTESCU
Magnetic Thin Coatings Fabricated by MAPLE for Biological Applications

Hanna DABKOWSKA
Chalenges with Crystal Growth and Characterization of Frustrated Vanadium and Titanium Pyrochlores

Pietro DELUGAS
General Behaviour of Ti 3d Bands at the n-Doped SrTiO3/LaAlO3 Interface and their 2-Dimensional Localization

Jeffrey DERBY
Instabilities During Meniscus-defined Crystal Growth: a Tale of Several Systems

Maria DINESCU
Ferroelectric Thin Films Deposited by Radiofrequency Assisted Pulsed Laser Deposition

Thierry DUFFAR
Origin and Development of Grain and Twin Boundaries in PV Silicon

Claude ESTOURNES
Shaping of Nanostructured Materials through Spark Plasma Sintering

Christiane FRANK-ROTSCH
Vertical Gradient Freeze of 4-inch Gallium Arsenide in a Heater-Magnet Module

Jordi FRAXEDAS
Modulation of Surface Charge Transfer through Competing Interactions

Jochen FRIEDRICH
Detailed Analysis of Dislocations in 4H-SiC

Lucian GHEORGHE
Advanced NLO Crystals for UV Light Generation

Corneliu GHICA
From Conventional to Aberration Corrected TEM in Materials Science

Mihai GIRTU
Thin Films of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Nanostructured Materials – a Combined Computational and Experimental Approach

Alain IBANEZ
Molecular Nanocrystals Confined in Silicate Nanoparticles: A New Family of Ultrabright Fluorescent Tracers for Medical Imaging

Koichi KAKIMOTO
Thermodynamical Analysis of Polytype Stability During PVT Growth

Andreas KLEIN
Energy Band Alignment of Ferroelectric Materials

Detlef KLIMM
Growth Methods for Bulk ZnO

Nadhira LAIDANI
Doping Effects in Wide Gap Oxide Films

Gwenel Le RHUN
Toward Integration of Epitaxial Piezoelectric Thin Films on Silicon Substrate for MEMS Applications

Pascal LOISEAU
VIS and UV Nonlinear Crystals for Birefringent Phase Matching

Nicoleta LUPU
Multilayered Magnetostrictive Thin Films and Nanowires Prepared by Electrodeposition

Leo McGILLY
Functional Properties of Charged Domains Walls in La-BiFeO3 Thin Films

Wolfram MILLER
Simulation of Epitaxial Growth: Density Functional Theory and Monte-Carlo Method

Liliana MITOSERIU
New Functional Properties Driven by Nanoscale Interface Reactions in Magnetoelectric Composites

Kazuo NAKAJIMA
Growth of High-Quality Si Multicrystals for Solar Cells Using Dendritic Casting Method and Noncontact Crucible Method

Tatau NISHINAGA
Growth Induced Impurity Non-uniformity Associated with Growth Morphology

Seizi NISHIZAWA
Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy (THz-TDS) Applied to the Evaluation of Phonon-Polariton Dispersion Relation in Ferroelectric Crystals

Aleksander OSTROGORSKY
Revisiting BPS, and Effective Convection and Segregation Coefficients

John PRESTON
Self assembly of Epitaxial Nanostructures

Gabriel PRODAN
Techniques for Improve Electron Diffraction Data

Kevin ROBERTS
In-process Analytical Methods for Monitoring and Controlling the Crystallization of Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals

Peter RUDOLPH
Current Results and Future Steps of PV Silicon Growth in External Fields

Florencio SANCHEZ
Two-dimensional Growth and Properties of Magnetoelectric BaTiO3-CoFe2O4 Epitaxial Bilayers on SrTiO3(001) and Si(001)

Andrei SARBU
Researches about the Covalent Immobilization of Enzymes on Polymers, for Various Applications

Marius STAN
Computer Simulations of Materials under Extreme Conditions: Application to Nuclear Reactor Materials

Anca STANCULESCU
Aromatic Derivatives Organic Semiconductors

Sefic SUZER
Probing the Molecular Nature of Electret Formation Using X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Cristian Mihail TEODORESCU
Ferromagnetic Surface Alloys Synthesized by Molecular Beam Epitaxy and Characterized by Inner-shell Spectroscopies

Marina TYUNINA
Epitaxial Design of Novel Perovskite-type Ferroelectrics

Matjaz VALANT
Existence of Dilute Magnetism in Oxide Perovskites?

Daniel VIZMAN
Numerical Study of Melt Convection in Directional Solidification Method of Multicrystalline Silicon

Marius VOLMER
Development of Low-field Magnetic Sensors Based on the Planar Hall Effect