Abstract:
A device for producing tubular bodies of semiconductor material, preferably of silicon or germanium. To this end, a rod or tube shaped carrier is heated in a reaction gas for precipitating the respective semiconductor, as a result of which the jacket area of the carrier is coated with a layer of the semiconductor. Following the removal of the carrier, this semiconductor layer defines the desired tube. At least two vertical carriers of carbon material, e.g. graphite, are each held at their lower ends by an electrode, and are connected at their upper ends by a conductive bridge, preferably of carbon.
Abstract:
A fixture for positioning semiconductor discs in a diffusion furnace for diffusing doping material therein including a troughshaped holder having sidewalls composed of a semiconductor material, the sidewalls having opposed grooves therein proportioned to receive individual semiconductor discs therein, the sidewalls being positioned to engage the peripheries of said discs along limited areas of contact which lie approximately at the horizontal plane including the center of gravity of the discs.
Abstract:
An apparatus comprised of a housing member having an inner hollow chamber, a pair of electrically conductive mounting members electrically insulated from each other and positioned within the chamber, a carbon rod member mounted on one of the mounting members and a carbon tube member mounted on the other of the mounting members concentrically about the rod member, a carbon cap member joining the rod and tube members at their upper surfaces to provide a substantially continuous smooth exterior surface for formation of a tube thereon, means for feeding a gaseous material which includes a semiconductor material into the chamber, means for withdrawing a residual gas from the chamber and means for supplying energy to the mounting means so that the exterior surfaces of the tube member and cap member are uniformly heated and a desired tube closed at one end thereof forms about such heated carbon surfaces.
Abstract:
An at least unilaterally open hollow body of silicon or other semiconductor material is produced by thermally reducing a gaseous compound of the same material and precipitating the segregated material upon a heated carrier of different material, preferably graphite or other industrial carbon, and thereafter removing the resulting hollow semiconductor body from the carrier. The gaseous compound is supplied to the heated carrier in mixture with a reduction gas, preferably hydrogen, in a molar ratio that substantially corresponds to the reaction equilibrium at the carrier temperature obtaining at the beginning of the reduction and precipitation process. After the precipitated hollow body has reached a layer thickness of a few microns, the molar ratio is changed so as to increase the rate of precipitation. The method can be modified by changing the throughput of the gaseous mixtures from a lower to a higher value after a layer thickness of a few microns has been reached and then continuing the precipitation at a higher rate until the desired full layer thickness is obtained.
Abstract:
In a silicon tube whose diameter is two to three times larger than the diameter of the wafers to be diffused, a rod is situated centrally and in parallel to the tubular axis and has channels extending in parallel to the rod axis. These channels define, together with the tubular wall, cages for the stacks of wafers. In this manner, several parallel wafer stacks may be diffused in a single silicon tube. Favorable degrees of utilization of the silicon tube are obtained with five and six parallel stacks of wafers.
Abstract:
A device used for receiving semiconductor discs and doping material during a diffusion process which includes a heating step to diffuse the doping material into the semiconductor disc characterized by the semiconductor disc being arranged in small tubes formed of the same semiconductor material which small tubes are disposed in a larger tube formed of the same semiconductor material and containing the source of doping material. The small tubes are opened at least at one end which receives a supporting member to hold the disc in the proper position in the small tubes and the supporting member has a diameter less than the inner diameter of the tube and is formed of the same semiconductor material.
Abstract:
A device for holding semiconductor discs during high temperature treatment, such as the diffusion of impurities therein, consisting of a base plate having grooves extending therealong, and a plurality of spaced holders supported by the base plate, the holders having slots therein which are vertically aligned with the grooves in the base plate so that a semiconductor disc positioned with its edge in one of the grooves will be supported by the slots in the holder at a position at or above its center of gravity to prevent bending of the discs during high temperature treatment.
Abstract:
A method and device for the production of silicon tubes by deposition of self-supporting silicon layers from the gas-phase onto tubular heated carriers of graphite whereby two such vertical carriers are supported along the periphery of their lower ends by electrodes and are connected at their upper ends by a bridge of conductive material, whereby the tubular shaped carriers, as well as the supporting electrodes and the connecting bridge are so designed with respect to each other that the respective values for the product of the shortest circumference with the smallest current carrying cross-section and the specific conductivity for the electrodes and connecting bridge are at least five times, preferably ten times as large as the values of such products for the tubular carriers, and stopping the production of such layers when the temperature differential between the tubular carriers and the supporting elements, i.e., electrodes and connecting bridge, drops to 300*C.
Abstract:
An apparatus for producing semiconductor tubes by means of depositing semiconductor material from a gaseous atmosphere onto a heated receiver body, the receiver body consists of a concentric assembly of inner and outer conductive members connected at one end by means of cooperating screw threads on the two members, and a conical end cap member covering the end of the assembly and forming a smooth continuous surface with the exterior of the outer member.
Abstract:
A PERPENDICULAR TUBE OF SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL IS FILLED WITH CRYSTALLINE SEMICONDUCTOR WASTE AND/OR DOPANT. A MOLTEN ZONE IS GUIDED THROUGH THE TUBE AND THE FILLING, WHEREBY THE FILLING FUSES WITH THE TUBE.