Tsuguo Fukuda: Ph D from the University of Tokyo (Japan); professional experience in materials science and crystal growth from melt and flux: Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co. (Toshiba Corporation), Professor of Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University (Japan), Research Professor of Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, President of Fukuda X’tal Laboratory, over 600 papers and patents.
Valery I. Chani: Ph D from General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow (Russia); professional experience in materials science and crystal growth from melt and flux: General Physics Institute, Tohoku University (Japan), Mc Master University (Canada), Claude Bernard Lyon-1 University (France), over 100 papers and patents.