摘要:
Disclosed are a method of and a device for crystal diameter measurement in an apparatus for automatically controlling single crystal growth by the CZ technique. In the diameter measurement method, a growing region of a single crystal 32 is photographed by a camera 38, and an outer diameter D O of an luminous ring image 70 having a luminance above a reference value E is detected from a video signal supplied from the camera 38, the diameter D₀ thus detected being used for crystal diameter control. The crystal diameter measuring device comprises: a camera 38 for photographing a growing section of a single crystal 32 and supplying a video signal; devices for detecting a maximum video signal value with respect to one scanning line or more; a device for obtaining a reference value E corresponding to the above-mentioned maximum value; devices for binary-coding the video signal in comparison with the reference value E; and a device for detecting the outer diameter D₀ of a luminous image from a binary image obtained by the binary-coding.
摘要:
Used in an apparatus for pulling a Si single crystal 36 up from Si molten liquid 35 by using the Czochralski method. In order to produce a Si single crystal having a desired squality, the diameter of the Si single crystal is4controlled by controlling the pull-up speed of the Si single crystal, the sum of a reference temperature set value T B (X), which is a function of a pull-up distance X of the Si single crystal from a certain growth point, and a value proportional to a diameter deviation ΔD is regarded as a reference temperature, and electric power supplied to a heater (24) for heating the Si molten liquid is controlled so that the temperature of the vicinity of the heater is equal to the reference temperature. In order to easily and quickly set the temperature pattern, various operational data in producing a Si single crystal is automatically collected and stored in a magnetic memory disk (82) corresponding to quality data of the Si single crystals which have been produced, data similar to the quality of a Si single crystal to be produced is retrieved from the stored data, an operator selects the most similar data, the selected operational data is displayed in a display unit (80), and the operator sets the reference temperature pattern T B (X) on a screen of the display unit by using a mouse (78).
摘要:
A device for measuring the diameter of the growing portions of the single crystals grown by the Czochalski technique is provided. This device is capable of measuring the crystal diameter with a high degree of accuracy over a wide range from the small-diameter portion thereof to the large diameter portion. A one-dimensional camera 28 and a two-dimensional camera 48 are fixed to a shoulder chamber 34 in such a manner that the optical axes thereof are parallel to each other. An optical path switch-over device, consisting of a cylinder 56, a movable plane mirror 52 mounted on a cylinder rod, and a fixed plane mirror 54, is provided. When the diameter of a neck portion of the single crystal 20 having a diameter of 10 mm or less is measured, the light reflected by the plane mirrors 52 and 54 is made incident on the two-dimensional camera 48, and the diameter of a bright ring 27 is measured on the basis of the image obtained by the two-dimensional camera. To measure the diameter of the conical and cylindrical portions 24 and 26 having a diameter of 10 mm or more, an image of a line lying across the bright ring 27 is obtained by the one-dimensional camera 28 by retracting the plane mirror 52, and the diameter of the bright ring 27 is measured on the basis of the position where this line crosses the bright ring. When the two-dimensional camera 48 is switched over to the one-dimensional camera 28, the diameter measured using the one-dimensional camera 28 is corrected such that it coincides with the diameter measured using the two-dimensional camera 48.
摘要:
An apparatus for measuring the diameter of a crystal in which an optical sensor scans along a sensing line which crosses at one point a luminous ring formed at the interface between a crystalline rod and a melt; the picture element position corresponding to a maximum luminance is discriminated when the optical sensor scans; the mean value of the picture element position is calculated over at least one revolution of the crystalline rod; and the diameter D of the crystalline rod at a portion thereof interfacing with the melt is calculated from the mean value and the level of the melt. Similarly, the minimum crystal diameter can be calculated by obtaining the picture element position corresponding to the minimum crystal diameter instead of obtaining the mean of the picture element position.
摘要:
An apparatus for measuring the diameter of a crystal in which an optical sensor scans along a sensing line which crosses at one point a luminous ring formed at the interface between a crystalline rod and a melt; the picture element position corresponding to a maximum luminance is discriminated when the optical sensor scans; the mean value of the picture element position is calculated over at least one revolution of the crystalline rod; and the diameter D of the crystalline rod at a portion thereof interfacing with the melt is calculated from the mean value and the level of the melt. Similarly, the minimum crystal diameter can be calculated by obtaining the picture element position corresponding to the minimum crystal diameter instead of obtaining the mean of the picture element position.
摘要:
A method for measuring a diameter of a single crystal ingot pulled up in a single crystal pulling apparatus comprising: calculating the weight of the pulled-up single crystal, calculating the descent amount of the melt surface relative to the crucible wall from the calculated pulled-up weight of the grown single crystal, and then either correcting the value of the ingot diameter actually measured by the optical sensor in response to the descent amount of the melt surface level or raising the crucible by an amount equal to the descent amount of the surface level.