8th IKZ Summer Course on Crystal Growth 2015
[SUMMER SCHOOL]
13th-15th of July 2015 in Berlin, Germany
Crystallization is the lengthy natural process of formation of highly ordered structure of atoms that is today currently utilized in technology by artificially precipitating solid crystals from a solution, melt or gases to realize crystal structure.
The process has been essential for the development of the electronic devices and solar cells.
This lecture course given an overview of the important aspects related to the science and technology of the crystal growth:
- defect types, their origins and interactions during the bulk crystal growth from the melt and selected epitaxial processes.
- The equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamics, kinetic and interaction principles driving forces of defect generation, incorporation and ensembling.
- Micro- and macro-segregation phenomena - striations and the effect of constitutional supercooling -
- Dislocations and their patterning
The summer school also focussed on the role of high-temperature dislocation dynamics for collective interactions, like cell structuring and bunching
Additionally, some features of epitaxial dislocation kinetics and engineering were illustrated and generally, selected measures of defect engineering were given at the end of each chapter
Informations
This lecture course gives an overview of the important defect types, their origins and interactions during the bulk crystal growth from the melt and selected epitaxial processes.