List of Contributors.

Part I: General Aspects of crystal Growth Technology.

1. Phase Diagrams for Crystal Growth (Manfred Muhlberg)

2. Fundamentals of Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Crystal Growth (Klaus Jacobs)

3. Thermodynamics, Origin, and Control of Defects (Peter Rudolph)

4. Thermophysical Properties of Molten Silicon (Taketoshi Hibiya, Hiroyuki Fukuyama, Takao Tsukada and Masahito Watanabe)

Part II: Simulation of Industrial Growth Processes)

5. Yield Improvement and defect Control in Bridgman-Type Crystal Growth with the Aid of Thermal Modeling (Jochen Friedrich)

6. Modeling of Czochralski Growth of Large Silicon Crystals (Vladimir Kalaev, Yuri Makarov and Alexander Zhmakin)

7. Global Analysis of Effects of Magnetic Field Configuration on Melt/Crystal Interface Shape and Melt Flow in a Cz-Si Crystal Growth (Koichi Kakimoto and Liun Liu)

8. Modeling of Semitransparent Bulk Crystal Growth (Vladimir Kalaev, Yuri Makarov, Valentin Yuferev and Alexander Zhmakin)

Part III: Compound Semiconductors.

9. Recent Progress in GaAs Growth Technologies at FREIBERGER (Stefan Eichler, Frank Borner, Thomas Bunger, Manfred Jurisch, Andreas Kohler, Ullrich Kretzer, Max Scheffer-Czygan, Berndt Weinert and Tilo Flade)

10. Interface Stability and Its Impact on Control Dynamics (Frank J. Bruni)

11. Use of Forced Mixing via the Accelerated Crucible Rotation Technique (ACRT) in Bridgman Growth of Cadmium Mercury Telluride (CMT) (Peter Capper)

12. Crystal-Growth Technology for Ternary III-V Semiconductor Production by Vertical Bridgman and Vertical Gradient Freezing Methods with Accelerated Crucible Rotation Technique (Partha S. Dutta)

13. X-Ray Diffraction Imaging of Industrial Crystals (Keith Bowen, David Jacqus, Petra Feichtinger)

Part IV: Scintillator Crystals.

14. Continuous Growth of Large Halide Scintillation Crystals (Alexander Gektin, Valentine Goriletskiy and Borys Zaslavskiy)

Part V: Oxides.

15. Phase Equilibria and Growth of Langasite-Type Crystals (Satoshi Uda, Shou-Qi Wang, Hiromitsu Kimura and Xinming Huang)

16. Flame-Fusion (Verneuil) Growth of Oxides (Hans J. Scheel and Leonid Lytvynov)

Part VI: Crystal Growth for Sustaining Energy.

17. Saving Energy and Renewable Energy Through Crystal Technology (Hans J. Scheel)

Part VII: Crystal Machining.

18. Crystal Sawing Technology (Hans J. Moller)

19. Plasma Chemical Vaporization Machining and Elastic Emission Machining (Yasuhisa Sano, Kazuya Yamamura, Hidekazu Mimura, Kazuto Yamauchi and Yuzo Mori)

Index.