Publisher's Synopsis
This work of reference, comprising over 50 chapters, is being published in three volumes. The objective is to present the underlying scientific foundation of the multi-disciplinary field of crystal growth. The handbook is a comprehensive compendium on crystal growth, documenting authoritatively in one publication the fundamentals of the subject.;As such, it is a work which should find its way into the libraries of industrial companies engaged in crystal growth and/or epitaxy and of academic or industrial research laboratories studying crystal growth processes in whatever materials. It should also serve as a source book for graduate and post-graduate teaching in the field.;Volume 2 is divided into 2 parts. Part A reviews the principal techniques used for bulk single crystal growth from melt, solution and vapour and for industrial mass crystallization starting, in chapter 1, with nature's techniques.;The growth of synthetic crystals of a wide range of materials for research and commercial use is covered in depth, with emphasis placed on those techniques which are of current importance: techniques of only historical interest have not been included.;Part B covers the basic mechanisms and dynamics of melt and solution growth covering segregation, melt convection, stress in the cooling crystal, polyphase solidification, growth in gels, spherulitic crystallisation and the numerical modelling of Bridgman and Czochralski growth processes.
