Conference Program
 
THIN FILM & CRYSTAL GROWTH MECHANISMS

July 6-11, 1997
Plymouth State College
Plymouth, NH

Chairs:
John A. Venables & J. Iwan Alexander


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Sunday, July 6th

  • 2-11pm - Registration at Site, continued 8am - 11pm (Mon-Thurs)
  • 5-6pm - Welcome Reception, Organized by Iwan Alexander. We will take this opportunity to thank NASA for their continued interest in crystal growth, which has lead to generous sponsorship of this conference. This reception continues after the evening session, with food available for late arrivals.
  • 6-7pm - Dinner, and at the same time each day.

Sunday Evening, July 6th

THERMODYNAMICS and KINETICS of THIN FILM and CRYSTAL GROWTH

  • 7:30 - C. Handwerker, Discussion Leader (NIST, Maryland)
  • 7:45 - G. Zinsmeister, Balzers, Lichtenstein - "Rate Equations Approaches to Thin Film Nucleation and Growth Kinetics"
  • 8:15 - Discussion
  • 8:30 - K. A. Jackson, University of Arizona, Tucson - "Crystal Growth from the Vapor, Melt and Solution: Similarities and Differences"
  • 9:00-9:30 - Discussion
9:30-10pm - Continuation Reception, with food for late arrivals

Monday Morning, July 7th

Breakfast 7:30-8:30am, and at the same time each day
**Note early start today at 8:45am**

STRAINED LAYER and HIGH MISFIT EPITAXY

  • 8:45 - P. W. Voorhees, Discussion Leader, (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois)
  • 9:00 - T. F. Kuech, University of Wisconsin, Madison - "Strained Layer Epitaxy with Compliant Substrates"
  • 9:30 - Discussion
  • 9:45 - D.E. Wolf, KFA Juelich, Germany - "Computer Simulation of Epitaxial Growth on Strained Layers"
  • 10:15 - Group Photograph **please be present, smile time**
  • 10:30 - Coffee Break
  • 11:00 - Discussion
  • 11:30 - R. M. Tromp, IBM Yorktown, New York - "New Results from LEEM and UHV-TEM"
  • 12:00 - Discussion
  • 12:30 - Lunch; Afternoon free;
    Informal Poster Sessions from 4:30 onwards
  • 6:00 - Dinner

Monday Evening, July 7th

STEP KINETICS IN CRYSTAL GROWTH

  • 7:30 - A. Chernov, Discussion Leader (NASA Space Science, Alabama)
  • 7:45 - Ellen D. Williams, University of Maryland, College Park - "Modification of Interface Morphology during Growth and Etching"
  • 8:15 - Discussion
  • 8:30 - P. Vekilov, University of Alabama, Hunstville - "Non-linear dynamics of Layer Growth in the mixed Kinetics- Bulk Transport Regime"
  • 9:00-9:30 - Discussion

Tuesday Morning, July 8th

SURFACE PROCESSES in THIN FILM and CRYSTAL GROWTH

  • 9:00 - G. S. Bales, Discussion Leader (Lawrence Livermore Lab, Calfornia)
  • 9:15 - H. Brune, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland - "STM studies of Sub-Monolayer Epitaxy"
  • 9:45 - Discussion
  • 10:00 - A. DePristo, Iowa State University, Ames and DOE, Washington - "Energetics, Dynamics and Kinetics of Metal Film Growth"
  • 10:30 - Coffee Break
  • 11:00 - Discussion
  • 11:30 - G. Rosenfeld, KFA Juelich and Universitat Bonn, Germany - "STM Studies of Cluster Diffusion and Decay on Metal Surfaces"
  • 12:00 - Discussion
  • 12:30 - Lunch; Afternoon Free;
    Informal Poster Sessions from 4:30 onwards
  • 6:00 - Dinner

Tuesday Evening, July 8th

SURFACE PROCESSES in THIN FILM and CRYSTAL GROWTH (Cont.)

  • 7:30 - K. Kern, Discussion Leader (EPFL, Lausanne)
  • 7:45 - B. Swartzentruber, Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque - "STM studies of Diffusion on Silicon"
  • 8:15 - Discussion
  • 8:30 - M. Siegert, Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada - "Growth Instabilities, Coarsening and Steady-State Fluctuations of Surfaces"
  • 9:00-9:30 - Discussion

Wednesday Morning, July 9th

GROWTH ISSUES FOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE

  • 9:00 - J. Murray Gibson, Discussion Leader (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  • 9:15 - J. Tersoff, IBM Yorktown, New York - "Modelling and Control of Self-Organisation in Epitaxial Growth"
  • 9:45 - Discussion
  • 10:00 - S. S. P. Parkin, IBM Almaden, California - "Magnetic Nanostructures, Growth, Physics and Applications"
  • 10:30 - Coffee Break
  • 11:00 - Discussion
  • 11:30 - W. Schwarzacher, University of Bristol, UK - "Electrochemical Growth of Magnetic Multilayers"
  • 12:00 - Discussion
  • 12:30 - Lunch; Afternoon Free;
    Informal Poster Sessions from 4:30 onwards
  • 6:00 - Dinner

Wednesday Evening, July 9th

GROWTH ISSUES FOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE (Cont.)

  • 7:30 - M. DiGuiseppe, Discussion Leader (Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey)
  • 7:45 - R. F. Davis, North Carolina State University, Raleigh - "Growth of Wide Band Gap Light-Emitting Materials"
  • 8:15 - Discussion
  • 8:30 - Assia Pavlovska, Arizona State University, Tempe - "LEEM Studies of Nitride Growth"
  • 9:00 - Claire Gmachl, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill - "Quantum Cascade Lasers"
  • 9:30 - Finish

Thursday Morning, July 10th

HOT TOPIC SESSIONS

The timetable for these sessions is provisional and may be altered up to the last moment
Chairs: J.A. Venables and K. Ploog, Paul Drude Institut, Berlin

9:00-10:30 - 20 minute talks and discussion

  • I. Goldfarb, Univ. Oxford, UK - "In-situ STM observations of surface evolution during gas-source MBE of GexSi1-x (001)
  • A. Barabasi, Univ. Notre Dame, Indiana - "Self-assembled Quantum Dot Formation on Semiconductor Surfaces"
  • C. Ratsch, Fritz Haber Institut, Berlin, Germany - "DFT Calculations of Surface Diffusion"
  • G. Sprunger, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - "Electronic Effects in Heteroepitaxy"

10:30 - Coffee Break

11:00 - Business Session

11:30-12:30 - More 20 minute contributions and discussion

  • L. Strzhemechny, ILT, Kharkov, Ukraine - "Growth of Cryocrystals at Low Temperature"
  • N. Inoue, RIAST, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan - "In-situ SEM studies of MBE GaAs growth"
  • 12:30 - Lunch; Afternoon Free;
    Informal Poster Sessions from 4:30 onwards
  • 6:00 - Banquet Dinner

Thursday Evening, July 10th

HOT TOPICS SESSION (Continued)

Chairs: I. Alexander and K. Ploog, Paul Drude Institut, Berlin

7:30-9:30 - More 20 minute contributions and discussion

  • J. M. Blakely, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY - "Making Step-free surfaces of Si and Other Materials"
  • Klaus Ploog, Paul Drude Institut, Berlin - "High Misfit Epitaxy of GaN/GaAs"
  • Round Table Discussion - Panel includes:
    • L. Schowalter
    • J. DeYoreo
    • Zuzanna Liliental-Weber
    • I. Alexander
    • K. Ploog

Friday Morning, July 11th

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