Program

G01

Fundamentals of Nucleation and Crystal Growth

Theory, modeling, and experiments designed to learn the fundamental aspects of nucleation and crystal growth. Thermodynamics of interfaces.

Category Chairs:

Makio Uwaha (Aichi Institute of Technology)
Peter Vekilov (University of Houston)

Invited Speakers:

Lara Estroff (Cornel University)
Olivier Pierre-Louis (Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon 1)
Boris Rybtchinski (Weitzman Institute)
Gen Sazaki (Hokkaido University)
Katsuo Tsukamoto (Osaka University)
Elias Vlieg (Radboud University)
James De Yoreo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

G02

Surfaces and Interfaces

Surface and interface science including the structure of solid-liquid interfaces, surface defects, and surfactants. Stress evolution during growth. Morphological stability.

Category Chairs:

Gen Sazaki (Hokkaido University)
Elias Vlieg (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Invited Speakers:

Yuki Araki (Kyoto University)
Azusa N. Hattori (Osaka University)
Dominique MAES (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

G03

Nanomaterials and Low Dimensional Structures

Synthesis of nanoparticles, quantum dots, nanowires, nanotubes, and other low dimensional structures. Materials for additive manufacturing.
Precise fabrication of nanometer-scale structures by lithography, self-assembly, chemical synthesis, etc. Applications in areas of energy conversion, storage, magnetics, optoelectronics, quantum computation, nanoelectromechanical systems, and semiconductor electronics.

Category Chairs:

Lutz Geelhaar (Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik)
Jyunichi Motohisa (Hokkaido University)
Shigeya Naritsuka (Meijo University)

Invited Speakers:

Yasuhiko Arakawa (Tokyo University)
Konstantin N. Eltsov (General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences)
Takashi Fukui (Hokkaido University)
Frank Glas (Laboratory for photonics and nanostructures, CNRS)
Gregor Koblmüller (Walter Schottky Institut)
Stefano Sanguinetto (Laboratory for Nanostructure Epitaxy and Spintronics on Silicon (L-NESS))
Masaaki Tanaka (The University of Tokyo)

G04

Thin Films and Epitaxial Growth

Physical, chemical, and technological aspects of epitaxial growth.

Category Chairs:

Joan Redwing (Penn State University)
Masakazu Sugiyama (The University of Tokyo)

Invited Speakers:

Eugene Fitzgerald (MIT)
Thomas Hannappel (TU Ilmenau)
Daisuke Iida (Tokyo University of Science)
Yoshinao Kumagai (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Toru Ujihara (Nagoya University)

G05

Organic and Biological Crystallization

Current advancements in biomineralization, macromolecular crystallization, protein crystal growth, and bio-inspired materials synthesis. Biomimetics, learning from nature to grow organic and biomacromolecular crystals.

Category Chairs:

Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz (University of Granada)
Yoshihisa Suzuki (Tokushima University)
Junpei Yamanaka (Nagoya City University)

Invited Speakers:

Alexander E.S. Van Driessch (Univ. Grenoble Alpes)
Denis Gebauer (University of Konstanz)
Hiroaki Imai (Keio University)
Xiang-Yang Liu (Xiamen University)
Shigeru Sugiyama (Osaka University)

G06

Bulk Crystal Growth

Bulk crystal growth including crystallization mechanisms and morphological instabilities. Development of new methods and approaches for bulk growth. Novel materials and structures.

Category Chairs:

Sonia Baldochi (Nuclear and Energy Research Institute, IPEN–CNEN/SP)
Matthias Bickermann (IKZ)
Akira Yoshikawa (Tohoku University)

Invited Speakers:

Michal Bockowski (UNIPRESS)
Christo Guguschev (LKZ)
Shiro Sakuragi (Union Material)
Yasuhiro Shoji (C&A Corporation)
Mariya Zhuravleva (University of Tennessee)

G07

Defect Formation

Studies of the mechanisms of defect formation in crystals. Investigations of crystal chemistry, crystalline structure, and physical properties.

Category Chairs:

Janakiraman Kumar (Anna University)
Ichiro Yonenaga (Tohoku University)

Invited Speakers:

Martin Albrecht (Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth)
Claudio Ferrari (Istituto IMEM-CNR)
Gudrun Kissinger (Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics)
Martin Kuball (University Bristol)
Kentaro Kutsukake (Tohoku University)

G08

Advanced Growth Technologies

Growth of advanced multidisciplinary inorganic materials. Investigations of crystal chemistry, crystalline structure, and physical properties.

Category Chairs:

Geetha Balakrishnan (University of Warwick)
Zhenxiang Cheng (University of Wollongong)
Hideo Kimura (NIMS)

Invited Speakers:

Toshimitsu Ito (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technoplogy)
Ho-Yong Lee (Sun Moon University)
Athena S. Sefat (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Antonio Vecchione (Institute SPIN-CNR)
Chunchang Wang (Anhui University)
Shujun Zhang (Pennsylvania State University)
Hongyang Zhao (Wuhan Institute of Technology)

G09

In situ Observation and Characterization

Recent advancements in in-situ monitoring methods. Microscopy, spectroscopy, topography, scattering, and other characterization techniques.

Category Chairs:

Jim De Yoreo (PNNL)
Katsuo Tsukamoto (Osaka University / Tohoku University)

Invited Speakers:

Takeshi Fukuma (Kanazawa University)
Hiromasa Niinomi (Chiba University)
Jinhui Tao (PNNL)
Anton S Tremsin (University of California at Berkeley)
Peter G. Vekilov (University of Houston)
Elias Vlieg (Radboud University)
Haimei Zheng (University of California)

G10

External Fields, Microgravity

Nucleation and crystal growth under external fields, including reduced gravity, magnetic, and electric fields.

Category Chairs:

Aleksandar Ostrogorsky (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Satoshi Uda (Tohoku University)

Invited Speakers:

Arne Cröll (Crystallography-Institute of Geo- and Environmental Natural Sciences)
Raphaël Haumont (Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et Matériaux d'Orsay, Université Paris)
Keiichi Koyama (Kagoshima University)

G11

Industrial Crystallization

Innovations made over the last decade in the area of industrial crystallization. Equipment for industrial crystal growth. Crystal preparation such as cutting, polishing, and structuring. Food, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical crystallisation.

Category Chairs:

François Puel (Paris Saclay University)
Kiyoshi Shimamura (NIMS)

Invited Speakers:

Robert T. Bondokov (Crystal IS, Inc.)
Gisele Maxwell (Shasta Crystal, Inc.)
Vladimir Ouspenski (Saint-Gobain Recherche)

T01

III-V Semiconductors

Bulk and epitaxial growth of III-V semiconductors.

Category Chairs:

Michal Bockowski (Institute of High Pressure Physics)
Takashi Matsuoka (Tohoku University)

Invited Speakers:

Seth R. Bank (The University of Texas at Austin)
Stefan Eichler (Freiberger Compound Materials GmbH)
Christiane Frank-Rotsch (Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth)

T02

Group IV Semiconductors

The latest progress in growth of group IV semicondutors such as Si, Ge, and SiGe.

Category Chairs:

Christian Reimann (Fraunhofer IISB)
Noritaka Usami (Nagoya University)

Invited Speakers:

Detlev Grützmacher (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)
Yuta Nagai (Global Wafers Japan)
João Manuel de Almeida Serra (University of Lisbon)
Yukiko Yamada-Takamura (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

T03

2D Materials

Growth and application of graphene and other two dimensional materials.

Category Chairs:

Thomas Seyller (Technology University Chemnitz)
Satoru Tanaka (Kyushu University)

Invited Speakers:

Georg Duesberg (Trinity College Dublin)
Hiroki Hibino (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Francesca Iacopi (Griffith University)
Nils Scheuschner (Technische Universität Berlin)
Han Wang (University of Southern California)

T04

II-VI and Oxide Materials

Growth of HgCdTe, ZnSe, ZnO, and CdTe, as well as other II-VI and oxide materials.

Category Chairs:

Igor Avetissov (D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia)
Hitoshi Tabata (The University of Tokyo)

Invited Speakers:

Ernesto Diéguez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Michael Fiederle (University Freiburg)
Bertrand Vilquin (Ecole Centrale de Lyon)
Alexey Voloshin (Shubnikov Instiute of Crystallography of RAS)
Andrea Zappettini (IMEM-CNR)

T05

Materials for Spintronics

Growth of spintronic materials including diluted magnetic semiconductors, oxides, and metals.

Category Chairs:

Shigehiko Hasegawa (Osaka University)
Jens Herfort (Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik)
Shinobu Ohya (The University of Tokyo)

Invited Speakers:

Kohei Hamaya (Osaka University)
Franck Natali (Victoria University of Wellington)
Tetsuya Uemura (Hokkaido University)

T06

Materials for Optical Devices

Crystal growth and characterization of materials for optical devices such as lasers, nonlinear optics, solar cells, and magnetooptic materials.

Category Chairs:

Gérard Aka (Chimie ParisTech Institute)
Masashi Yoshimura (Osaka University)

Invited Speakers:

Xavier Délen (Institut d’Optique Graduate School)
Encarnacion G. Vίllora (National Institute for Materials Science)
Shanpeng Wang (State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University)
Ning Ye (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

T07

Materials for Electron Devices

Preparation and characterization of advanced materials for electron devices.

Category Chairs:

Atsushi Tsukazaki (Tohoku University)
Markus Weyers (Ferdinand-Braun-Institut)
Andrea Zappettini (IMEM-CNR)

Invited Speakers:

Frank Brunner (FBH)
Sergey Yu Karpov (STR)
Masashi Kawasaki (University of Tokyo & RIKEN)
Susanne Stemmer (University of California)
Masakazu Sugiyama (The University of Tokyo)

T08

Materials for Organic Devices and Bio Applications

Functional materials and devices for organic electronics and bio applications. Thin film growth, self-assembly, and self organization.

Category Chairs:

Christian Leo Kloc (Nanyang Technology University)
Yuji Yoshida (AIST)

Invited Speakers:

Kilwon Cho (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
Wenping Hu (Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Science)
Yulia Krupskaya (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden)
Kiyoshi Yase (AIST)

T09

Nitride Semiconductors

Recent progress and outlining future directions in the field of bulk substrates and thin film growth of III-Nitrides.

Category Chairs:

Izabella Grzegory (Institute of High Pressure Physics)
Yasushi Nanishi (Ritsumeikan University)

Invited Speakers:

Michal Bockowski (UNIPRESS)
Ramon Collazo (NCSU)
Mamoru Imade (Osaka University)
Toru Kinoshita (Tokuyama)
Yutaka Mikawa (Mitsubishi Chemical)
Hisashi Murakami (TUAT)
Marcin Zajac (Ammono SA)

T10

Silicon Carbide

Scientific and technological advances in the field of SiC and related materials such as diamond.

Category Chairs:

Peder Bergman (Linköping University)
Toru Ujihara (Nagoya University)

Invited Speakers:

Didier Chaussende (CNRS)
Tsunenobu Kimoto (Kyoto University)
Joe Sumakeris (Cree Inc)
Hidekazu Tsuchida (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI))

J01

Growth Simulation and Practice

Current status and future prospects of potential and limitation on simulation for prediction of crystal growth.

Category Chairs:

Tomonori Ito (Mie University)
Jochen Friedrich (Fraunhofer IISB)

Invited Speakers:

Lijun Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Kenji Shiraishi (Nagoya University)
Eugene Yakovlev (STR)