摘要:
A material resistant to high temperature melts of metal and salt which comprises a composite material containing silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, silicon dioxide and silicon prepared by(a) suspending silicon powder in SiO.sub.2 sol to form a pourable mass,(b) molding a workpiece from said mass,(c) hardening the molded workpiece, and(d) nitriding the hardened workpiece in a nitrogen atmosphere to form silicon nitride and silicon oxynitride to a degree that SiO.sub.2 and elemental silicon remain detectable in the nitrided workpiece,is useful as the material of construction for crucibles and tools for confining, handling and treating melts of metals or salts.
摘要:
Highly pure silicon is produced by refining impure silicon to remove deleterious impurities by contacting a melt of the impure silicon with a reacitve gas which comprises a gaseous halogen compound mixed with steam, hydrogen or a stem/hydrogen mixture.
摘要:
A process for the production of columnlarly solidified metallic bodies by melting metal and then solidifying said metal in a crucible, wherein the dissipation of heat is greater at the upper or lower end of the crucible than at the sides, which comprises supplying heat to the verticals sides through a heating element having a plurality of individually controlled heating sections in such a quantity that a melt of the metal is formed and then establishing directional solidification by establishing a temperature gradient by varying the heat output among the heating sections of the heating element by switching.
摘要:
The process for producing silicon suitable for use in solar cells is improved by reacting a gaseous silicon compound with aluminum wherein a finely dispersed molten surface of pure aluminum or an aluminum/silicon alloy is intensively contacted with the gaseous silicon compound during the reaction.
摘要:
Silicon having a low carbon content is produced by removing carbon from molten silicon by heating the molten silicon to temperatures of 1420.degree. to 1900.degree. C. and establishing a temperature gradient of 30.degree. to 400+ K. in the melt.
摘要:
A process for the production of columnarly grown blocks of silicon containing coarsely crystalline regions comprising cooling a silicon melt in a mold, selectively effecting solidification at the melt surface and advancing the solidification front downwardly. The blocks can be sawed into chips, useful for solar cells.
摘要:
In the recrystallization and purification of a strip-shaped film of a metal or metalloid wherein one or more locally restricted melting zones are produced and are moved through the film, the improvement which comprises advancing the film, and melting it in zones which are transverse to the direction of advance of the strip-shaped film. Advantageously the film is melted by passing a current through a spirally wound coil which is placed near the film; the film is advantageously advanced in a plane so that the melt zones are diagonal relative to the film.
摘要:
In the production of a semi-conductor foil by solidification of a liquid semi-conductor on a horizontal support, the improvement which comprises positioning a molding body on the horizontal support, supplying the liquid semi-conductor to the molding body, and effecting relative movement between the molding body and support in a direction parallel to the support. Thereby fault-free silicon foils can readily be produced.
摘要:
High purity semiconductor foils, such as silicon foils useful in solar energy cells, are produced by treating an impure semiconductor foil with at least one reactive gas while in the crystallizing state.
摘要:
The device for production of a monocrystalline or a multicrystalline material blank, especially a silicon multicrystalline blank, using the VGF method has a crucible with a rectangular or square cross section. A flat heating device, especially a jacket heater, which generates an inhomogeneous temperature profile, is arranged around the crucible. This temperature profile corresponds to the temperature gradient formed in the center of the crucible. The heat output of the flat heating device decreases from the top to the bottom end of the crucible. The flat heating device includes parallel heating webs, which extend in a meandering course. The heat outputs from the heating webs differ according to their different conductor cross sections. To avoid local overheating in corner areas of the crucible, constrictions of the cross sections of the heating webs are provided at inversion zones of their meandering course.