Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Executive Officer, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UMN, 2000- present
Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UMN, 1998- present
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UMN, 1994-1998
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UMN, 1988-1994
Engineer, Physics Department, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1986-1988

Selected Publications

J.J. Derby, L.J. Atherton, and P.M. Gresho, "An integrated process model for the growth of oxide crystals by the Czochralski method," J. Crystal Growth 97, 792-826 (1989)

A. Yeckel, A.G. Salinger, and J.J. Derby, "Theoretical analysis and design considerations for float-zone refinement of electronic grade silicon sheets," J. Crystal Growth 152, 51-64 (1995)

A. Pandy, A. Yeckel, M. Reed, C. Szeles, M. Hainke, G. Müller, and J.J. Derby, "Analysis of the growth of cadmium zinc telluride in an electrodynamic gradient freeze furnace via a self-consistent, multi-scale numerical model," J. Crystal Growth 276, 133-147 (2005)

J.J. Derby, L. Lun, and A. Yeckel, "Strategies for the coupling of global and local crystal growth models," J. Crystal Growth 303, 114-123 (2007).

J.J. Derby, "Crystal Growth: Crystal growth, bulk (Theory and Models)," in: Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics, Eds. F. Bassani, J. Liedl, and P. Wyder, Academic Press, (2005)

J.J. Derby and A. Yeckel , "Modeling of Crystal Growth Processes," in: Crystal Growth -- From Fundamentals to Technology, Eds. G. Muller, J.-J. MŽtois, and P. Rudolph, Elsevier, Amsterdam (2004) pp. 143-167

J.R. Chelikowsky, M. Jain and J.J. Derby: "Simulating Semiconductor Liquids with Ab Initio Pseudopotentials and Quantum Forces," in: Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics XV, D.P. Landau, S.P. Lewis and H.B. Schuttler (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin (2002)