摘要:
Method of crucible-free zone-melting a semiconductor rod which includes monitoring a melting zone formed in and traveling through a semiconductor rod surrounded by an induction heating coil, producing a respective signal corresponding to values of the actual diameters d of the semiconductor rod at a crystallization interface of the melting zone, comparing the signals corresponding to the actual diameter values d with a signal corresponding to a nominal diameter value d.sub.s so as to produce a signal corresponding to a respective first control deviation .DELTA.d, continuously combining the signals corresponding to the actual diameter values d and the signal corresponding to the respective first control deviation .DELTA.d to form respective signals corresponding to a new nominal diameter value d.sub.s *, respectively, in accordance with the relationships:(a) d.sub.s *=k.multidot.d.sub.s .+-..DELTA.d,wherein(b) 0.3 .ltoreq.k.ltoreq.1.4,and k= a constant,comparing the respective signals corresonding to the new nominal diameter value d.sub.s * to respective signals corresponding to an actual diameter value d.sub.s * of the melting zone in a given substantially horizontal cross section thereof located between a melting interface and a maximal, substantially horizontal cross section of the melting zone and having a fixed spacing from at least one of said induction heating coil and said melting interface so as to produce a signal corresponding to a respective second control deviation .DELTA.d*, and controlling with the signal corresponding to the respective second control Deviation .DELTA.d* an operating parameter having an effect upon the geometry of the melting zone so as to adjust the respective actual diameter value d.sub.i * to the nominal diameter value.