This is the TIMETABLE of the 1997 Gordon Conference on

THIN FILM AND CRYSTAL GROWTH MECHANISMS

Plymouth State College (South), New Hampshire, USA.

  • July 6th-11th, 1997

  • Co-Chairs, John A. Venables and Iwan Alexander
  • Co-Vice Chairs and Poster Organisers, Leo Schowalter and Jim DeYoreo

    • Sunday, July 6th
  • 2-11 pm Registration at Site, continued 8 am - 11 pm (Mon-Thurs)
  • 5-6 pm Welcome Reception, organised 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.
  • 6-7 pm Dinner, and at the same time each day.
    Sunday Evening, July 6th
  • THERMODYNAMICS and KINETICS of THIN FILM and CRYSTAL GROWTH

    7.30 pm Discussion Leader: C.A. Handwerker, 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

9.0-9.30 Discussion
  • 9.30-10 pm Continuation Reception, with food available for late arrivals.
    Monday Morning, July 7th Breakfast 7.30-8.30 am, and at the same time each day.
  • **Note early start today at 8.45 am**
  • STRAINED LAYER and HIGH MISFIT EPITAXY

    8.45 am Discussion Leader: P.W. Voorhees, Northwestern University, Illinois

9.00 T. Kuech, Univ. Wisconsin 
Strained Layer Epitaxy with Compliant Substrates

9.30 Discussion

9.45 D.E. Wolf, KFZ Juelich, Germany
Diffusion 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 results from LEEM and UHV-TEM

12.00 Discussion

12.30 Lunch; Afternoon free; 
Informal Poster sessions from 4.30 onwards
6.00 pm Dinner
    Monday Evening, July 7th
  • STEP KINETICS IN CRYSTAL GROWTH

    7.30 Discussion Leader: A.A. Chernov, NASA Space Science, Alabama

7.45 Ellen D. Williams, Univ. 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

9.0-9.30 Discussion
    Tuesday Morning, July 8th
  • SURFACE PROCESSES in THIN FILM and CRYSTAL GROWTH

    9.00 am Discussion Leader: G.S. Bales, Lawrence Livermore, California

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 pm Dinner
    Tuesday Evening, July 8th
  • SURFACE PROCESSES in THIN FILM and CRYSTAL GROWTH (Cont)

    7.30 Discussion Leader: K. Kern, EPFL, Lausanne

7.45 B. Swartzentruber, Sandia, Albuquerque
STM studies of Diffusion on Silicon

8.15 Discussion

8.30 M. Siegert, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Growth Instabilities, Coarsening and Steady State 
Fluctuations at Surfaces

9.0-9.30 Discussion
    Wednesday Morning, July 9th
  • GROWTH ISSUES FOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE

    9.00 am Discussion Leader: J. Murray Gibson, UIUC, Illinois

9.15 J. Tersoff, IBM Yorktown
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 pm Dinner
    Wednesday Evening, July 9th
  • GROWTH ISSUES FOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE

    7.30 Discussion Leader: M. Diguiseppe, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill

7.45 R.F. Davis, NCSU, Raleigh 
Growth of Wide Band Gap Light-Emitting Materials

8.15 Discussion

8.30 Assia Pavlovska, Arizona State Univ, 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 TOPICS AND BUSINESS SESSIONS 
    9.00-10.30 am: 20 minute talks, each with 5 minutes discussion
Discussion Leader: K. Ploog, Paul Drude Institut, Berlin

9.00 I. Goldfarb, Univ. Oxford, UK
In-situ STM Observations of Surface Evolution during Gas-Source 
MBE of GexSi1-x (001)

9.25 A. Barabasi, Univ. Notre Dame, Indiana
Self-assembled Quantum Dot Formation on Semiconductor Surfaces

9.50 C. Ratsch, Fritz Haber Institut, Berlin, Germany
DFT Calculations of Surface Diffusion

10.15 G. Sprunger, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Surface Alloying in Heteroepitaxial Metal on Metal Growth
    10.40 Coffee Break
  • 11.10 BUSINESS SESSION-Chairs: J.A. Venables and I. Alexander 
    11.40-12.30 More 20 minute talks with 5 minutes discussion. 
Discussion Leader: J.A. Venables

11.40 M. Strzhemechny, ILT, Kharkov, Ukraine
Growth of Cryocrystals at Low Temperature

12.05 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 pm Banquet Dinner
  • HOT TOPICS AND DISCUSSION SESSION 
    7.30-9.30 pm More 20 minute contributions and discussion
Discussion Leader: I. Alexander

7.30 Chair's introduction

7.40 J.M. Blakely, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
Making Step-free Surfaces of Si and Other Materials

8.05 K. Ploog, Paul Drude Institut, Berlin
High Misfit Epitaxy of GaN/GaAs

8.30 Round Table Discussion, chaired by I. Alexander
Panel includes: L. Schowalter, J. DeYoreo, Zuzanna 
Liliental-Weber and K. Ploog
    Friday Morning, July 11th: Leave after breakfast.