Peter Rudolph, Professor Dr. Habil, Dr. Ing. was born at July 1st, 1945 in Gera (Germany). Since 1994 he is employed at the Institute of Crystal Growth in Berlin, dealing with growth and characterisation of III-V compounds (GaAs, InP) by modified Czochralski method and VGF and heading of the competence field Technology Development. He received the Diploma of Electronic Technology at the Technical University of Lvov (Ukraina) in 1969. The PhD (Dr. Engineer) of Solid State Physics and Technology (on crystallisation of CdSb layers) he obtainted at the same university in 1972. From 1973 to 1993 he was employed at the Institute of Crystallography and Material Science of the Humboldt University in Berlin as lecturer of Kinetics of Phase Transitions, Crystal Growth and Technical Crystallography. In 1979 he obtained the DSc (Dr. habil) of Crystallography at the Humboldt University and in 1985 the University professor position. From 1980 to 1993 he led the Laboratory of Crystal Growth of IV-VI (PbTe) and II-VI materials (CdTe, HgCdTe) and co-chaired industrial growth of LiNbO3 and PbMoO3. In 1978 and 1992 space crystal growth experiments on Bi-Sb, PbTe and CdTe were carried out. From 1991 to 1993 he was member of the expert group of the ESA on melt growth experiments. From 1993 to 1994 and in 1998 he was employed as Guest Professor at the Crystal Growth Laboratory of Prof. T. Fukuda of the Tohoku University in Sendai (Japan). During these periods he held lectures on Fundamentals of Crystal Growth and dealed with the Bridgman growth of CdTe, ZnSe, InP and oxide fiber crystals. He co-laborated with numerous Japanese Companies.At the Institute of Crystal Growth in Berlin he is dealing with the vapour pressure controlled Cochralski growth (VCz) without boric oxide encapsulation, growth in travelling magnetic fields, and defect analysis, especially, dislocation patterning. During several guest residences he held lectures on Crystal Growth at the Ulan Bator University (1980), Complutense University of Madrid (1987), University of Monastir in Tunesia (1996), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1996), ETH Lausanne in Switzerland (1997), Autonoma Univ. Madrid/Spain (2005), Universidad Autonoma Nacional of Mexico City (2005), Univ. of Riga (2006). He acted as lecturer of several International Schools on Crystal Growth of the IUCr and IOCG in Madras/India (1995), Rimini/Italy (1998), Beatenberg/Switzerland (1998 and 2005), Campinas/Brazil (1999), Zao/Japan (2000), Trieste/Italy (2001), Madrid/Spain (2002), Mysore/India (2003), La Pedrera/Uruguay (2003) and Puebla/Mexico (2005). Since 1996 he is member of the IUCr Commission on Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials. He acts as associate editor of J. of Crystal Growth and member of advisory bords of J. Crystal Research Technology and Korean Journal of Crystal Growth. In 2001 he was awarded by the innovation prize of Berlin-Brandenburg. He was the organizer and co-chair of the Int. Summer School on Crystal Growth of the IOCG (ISSCG-12) in August 2004 in Berlin.
The publication work of P. Rudolph comprises 1 book on shaped crystal growth, 18 monograph contributions, 5 book editions, over 150 original publications and 21 patent descriptions.
Peter Rudolph
