This Workshop is the fifth of a series initiated by Hans Scheel in Beatenberg (Switzerland) in 1998 and aims at filling a gap in the conference coverage of topics, that of Crystal Growth Technology industrial crystal production and crystal machining. In essence, these workshops act as a bridge between the science and the practice, i.e. between R&D and the actual production.

IWCGT-5 is organized under the auspices of the International Organization for Crystal Growth and its programme consists of 45 min. long invited talks from international specialists.

It is foreseen that the Workshop should maintain its traditional manageable size (altogether about 100 participants) to enable lots of discussions and debate including some evening sessions of a more general nature.

While the oral presentation will be on invitation only, we invite all participants to present their own results in two evening poster sessions.