Govindhan Dhanaraj is the Manager of Crystal Growth
Technologies at Advanced Renewable Energy Company (ARC Energy) at
Nashua, New Hampshire (USA) focusing on the growth of large size
sapphire crystals for LED lighting applications, characterization
and related crystal growth furnace development. He received his PhD
from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and his Master of
Science from Anna University (India). Immediately after his
doctoral degree, Dr. Dhanaraj joined a National Laboratory,
presently known as Rajaramanna Center for Advanced Technology in
India, where he established an advanced Crystal Growth Laboratory
for the growth of optical and laser crystals. Prior to joining ARC
Energy, Dr. Dhanaraj served as a Research Professor at the
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stony Brook
University, NY, and also held a position of Research Assistant
Professor at Hampton University, VA. During his 25 years of focused
expertise in crystal growth research, he has developed optical,
laser and semiconductor bulk crystals and SiC epitaxial films using
solution, flux, Czochralski, Bridgeman, gel and vapor methods, and
characterized them using x-ray topography, synchrotron topography,
chemical etching and optical and atomic force microscopic
techniques. He co-organized a symposium on Industrial Crystal
Growth under the 17th American Conference on Crystal Growth and
Epitaxy in conjunction with the 14th US Biennial Workshop on
Organometallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy held at Lake Geneva, WIin 2009.
Dr. Dhanaraj has delivered invited lectures and also served as
session chairman in many crystal growth and materials science
meetings. He has published over 100 papers and his research
articles have attracted over 250 rich citations.