Advances in crystal growth research [texts of the 11th International Summer School on Crystal Growth (ISSCG-11) to be held at Doshisha Retreat Center, in Shiga Prefecture Japan, on July 24 - 29, 2001

The aim of this book is to provide a timely collection that highlights advances in current research of crystal growth ranging from fundamental aspects to current applications involving a wide range of materials. This book is published on the basis of lecture texts of the 11th International Summer School on Crystal Growth (ISSCG-11) to be held at Doshisha Retreat Center in Shiga Prefecture Japan, on July 24-29, 2001. This school is always associated with the International Conference of Crystal Growth (ICCG) series that have been held every three years since 1973; thus this school continues the tradition of the past 10 schools of crystal growth. In a treatise by Nicolous Steno published in 1669 [1] that claimed the corresponding interfacial angle is always constant regardless of the various forms exhibited by rock crystals, two important concepts were proposed.