Programme | 3rd Floating zone techniques workshop

Programme

Monday 16th September 2019

Time	Speaker and Title	Session Chair
11.00-12.00	Registration
12.30-14.00	Lunch
14.00-14.15	Welcome address
14.15-14.45	Hanna Dabkowska (Invited talk) Quality Assessment of Oxide Crystals Grown by Optical Floating Zone	Stephen Wilson
14.45-15.15	Rongying Jin (invited talk) Unusual Features Seen in Spinel NiFe₂O₄ Grown via the Floating-Zone Technique
15.15-15.35	Jhuma Sannigrahi Commensurate to incommensurate magnetic phase transition in single crystalline sample of Honeycomb-lattice Mn₂V₂O₇
15.35-16.15	Coffee Break
16.15-16.45	Robin Perry (Invited talk) Crystal Growth of pyrochlore vanadate Lu₂V₂O₇	D. Prabhakaran
16.45-17.05	Hwanbeom Cho Magnetic properties of ferromagnetic pyrochlore Y₂V₂O₇
19.00-21.00	Dinner

Tuesday 17th September 2019

Time	Speaker and Title	Session Chair
9.00-9.30	Ekaterina Pomjakushina (Invited talk) “Big little things” important for a successful crystal growth	Robin Perry
9.30-10.00	Stephen Wilson (Invited talk) High pressure laser floating zone furnace
10.00-10.20	Anastasia Uvarova Optical floating zone growth of high-melting sesquioxides
10.20-11.00	Coffee Break
11.00-11.30	Christo Guguschev (Invited talk) Exploring the advantages of the optical floating zone technique on the growth of high melting point perovskites and other oxides	Jason S Gardner
11.30-12.00	Paul Sass (Invited talk) Optical floating zone crystal growth under high pressure atmospheres – advantages and applications
12.00-12.20	Stefanie Jiménez New concepts for an advanced power shutter design in the vertical OFZ furnace
12.30-14.00	Lunch
14.00-14.30	Andreas Bauer (Invited talk) Growth of intermetallic compounds using the optical floating zone technique	Andreas Erb
14.30-15.00	Pascal Puphal (Invited talk) Floating zone growth of topological materials
15.00-15.20	Jan Philipp Wöhrle Investigation of soluto-capillary convection in Ge_xSi_1-x melts
15.20-16.00	Coffee Break
16.00-16.30	Jason S Gardner (Invited talk) Growing Isotope Enriched Crystals on a “BUDGET”	Andrew Boothroyd
16.30-17.00	Monica Ciomaga Hatnean (Invited talk) Crystal growth using the high-power Xenon-arc lamp image furnace
17.00-17.20	Josie E. Auckett (Invited talk) Insights into ionic disorder and conductivity in Ba₃Nb(Mo,W)O_8.5 single crystals
18.45-19.30	Pre-dinner drinks
19.30-21.00	Dinner

Wednesday 18th September 2019

Time	Speaker and Title	Session Chair
9.00-9.30	Andreas Erb (Invited talk) Single crystal growth of various oxide materials for basic research and applications	Ekaterina Pomjakushina
9.30-10.00	S.Uthayakumar (Invited talk) Bulk single Crystal growth and characterization of Energy Materials employing Floating zone technique
10.00-10.20	M.J. Winiarski Design and operation of an apparatus for suction casting of intermetallic rods for floating zone experiments
10.20-11.00	Coffee Break
11.00-11.30	W. Adam Phelan (Invited talk) Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis & Discovery of Interface Materials (PARADIM)	Hanna Dabkowska
11.30-12.00	Scott Dossa (Invited talk) Simulating the Optical Floating Zone Technique for Materials Discovery
12.00-12.30	Discussion
12.30-14.00	Lunch