Springer手册精选系列·晶体生长手册（第6册）：晶体生长专题（影印版）

GovindhanDhanarajistheManagerofCrystalGrowthTechnologiesatAdvancedRenewableEnergyCompany（ARCEnergy）atNashua，NewHampshire（USA）focusingonthegrowthoflargesizesapphirecrystalsforLEDlightingapplications，characterizationandrelatedcrystalgrowthfurnacedevelopment.HereceivedhisPhDfromtheIndianInstituteofScience，BangaloreandhisMasterofSciencefromAnnaUniversity（India）.Immediatelyafterhisdoctoraldegree，Dr.DhanarajjoinedaNationalLaboratory，presentlyknownasRajaramannaCenterforAdvancedTechnologyinIndia，whereheestablishedanadvancedCrystalGrowthLaboratoryforthegrowthofopticalandlasercrystals.PriortojoiningARCEnergy，Dr.DhanarajservedasaResearchProfessorattheDepartmentofMaterialsScienceandEngineering，StonyBrookUniversity，NY，andalsoheldapositionofResearchAssistantProfessoratHamptonUniversity，VA.Duringhis25yearsoffocusedexpertiseincrystalgrowthresearch，hehasdevelopedoptical，laserandsemiconductorbulkcrystalsandSiCepitaxialfilmsusingsolution，flux，Czochralski，Bridgeman，gelandvapormethods，andcharacterizedthemusingx-raytopography，synchrotrontopography，chemicaletchingandopticalandatomicforcemicroscopictechniques.Heco-organizedasymposiumonIndustrialCrystalGrowthunderthe17thAmericanConferenceonCrystalGrowthandEpitaxyinconjunctionwiththe14thUSBiennialWorkshoponOrganometallicVaporPhaseEpitaxyheldatLakeGeneva，WIin2009.Dr.Dhanarajhasdeliveredinvitedlecturesandalsoservedassessionchairmaninmanycrystalgrowthandmaterialssciencemeetings.Hehaspublishedover100papersandhisresearcharticleshaveattractedover250richcitations.