Welcome
This session will cover all aspects of crystal growth under
external fields, including reduced gravity, magnetic, and electric
fields, focusing on papers that will advance our understanding of the
fundamental processes. Experimental research and modeling
contributions on interactions between convection and mass transport
phenomena occurring in crystal growth and purification are
welcome. Convection driven by buoyancy, surface tension and
externally applied fields will be considered, including limitations of
diffusive transport regimes, and possibilities provided by magnetic
fields with respect to support or replace microgravity conditions.
Other phenomena related to the occurrence or absence of a field like
de-wetting are welcome. The materials include semiconductors, protein
crystals, and model materials suitable for microgravity experiments,
but the session is open to other material groups as well.
Programme
Invited speakers (confirmed):
Jeffrey J. Derby (University of Minnesota, USA)
Analysis of the Nonlinear Behavior of Detached Bridgman Growth in
Microgravity
Satoshi Uda (Tohoku University, Japan)
The Effect of an External Electric Field on Phase Equilibria,
Nucleation and Growth
