摘要:
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a vitreous silica crucible having a transparent layer by use of waste vitreous silica, and silica powder suitable for the manufacturing. According to the present invention, there is provided a method of manufacturing granulated silica powder comprising a process for pulverizing waste vitreous silica generated in the manufacturing process of a crucible to form silica fine powder having an average particle diameter of 100 μm or less, and a process for granulating the silica fine powder to obtain granulated silica powder having an average particle diameter of 50 μm or more under helium atmosphere.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a vitreous silica crucible having a transparent layer by use of waste vitreous silica, and silica powder suitable for the manufacturing. According to the present invention, there is provided a method of manufacturing granulated silica powder comprising a process for pulverizing waste vitreous silica generated in the manufacturing process of a crucible to form silica fine powder having an average particle diameter of 100 μm or less, and a process for granulating the silica fine powder to obtain granulated silica powder having an average particle diameter of 50 μm or more under helium atmosphere.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a vitreous silica crucible having a transparent layer by use of waste vitreous silica. According to the present invention, there is provided a method of manufacturing a vitreous silica crucible for manufacturing a monocrystalline or polycrystalline silicon ingot, including a process of vitrifying a silica powder sintered body having a crucible shape in the whole or part of the thickness direction by arc fusing the silica powder sintered body from the inner surface side, wherein the method further includes at least one means of (1) depressurizing the silica powder sintered body from the outer surface side during the arc fusing, and (2) forming a synthetic vitreous silica layer on the inner surface by spraying synthetic silica powder onto the inner surface of the silica powder sintered body during the arc fusing.
摘要:
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a crucible which has high viscosity at high temperature, and can be used for a long time, and can be manufactured at low cost, and a method of manufacturing the same. The composite crucible 10 is characterized in the use of mullite (3Al2O3.2SiO2) as the basic material of the crucible. The composite crucible 10 has the crucible body 11 made of mullite material whose main component is alumina and silica, and a transparent vitreous silica layer 12 formed on the inner surface of the crucible body 11. The thickness of the transparent vitreous silica layer 12 is smaller than that of the crucible body 11. The crucible body 11 can be formed by the slip casting method, and the transparent vitreous silica layer 12 can be formed by the thermal spraying method.
摘要:
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a crucible which has high viscosity at high temperature, and can be used for a long time, and can be manufactured at low cost, and a method of manufacturing the same. The composite crucible 10 is characterized in the use of mullite (3Al2O3.2SiO2) as the basic material of the crucible. The composite crucible 10 has the crucible body 11 made of mullite material whose main component is alumina and silica, and a transparent vitreous silica layer 12 formed on the inner surface of the crucible body 11. The thickness of the transparent vitreous silica layer 12 is smaller than that of the crucible body 11. The crucible body 11 can be formed by the slip casting method, and the transparent vitreous silica layer 12 can be formed by the thermal spraying method.
摘要:
Provided is a vitreous silica crucible, which is resistant to deformation and corrosion even when heated at high temperature for a long time. There is provided a vitreous silica crucible of the present invention including a substantially cylindrical straight body portion, a curved bottom portion, and a corner portion smoothly connecting the straight body portion and the bottom portion, wherein a wall of the vitreous silica crucible includes, from an inner surface side, a transparent layer and a bubble-containing layer, and a ratio of a thickness of the bubble-containing layer with respect to a thickness of the transparent layer at an intermediate position between an upper end and a lower end of the straight body portion is 0.7 to 1.4.
摘要:
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a crucible which has high viscosity at high temperature, can be used for a long time, and can be manufactured at low cost, and a method of manufacturing the crucible. The present invention provides a composite crucible including a vitreous silica crucible body having a sidewall portion and a bottom portion, and a reinforcement layer provided on an outer surface side of an upper end portion of the vitreous silica crucible body, wherein the reinforcement layer is made of mullite material whose main component is alumina and silica.
摘要:
There is provided a method of manufacturing a vitreous silica crucible having non-bubbles on the inner surface without necessitating new apparatuses for grinding and polishing and without damaging the productivity. According to the present invention, there is provided a method of manufacturing a vitreous silica crucible including the processes of: gathering a vitreous silica layer containing residual bubbles existing in a near-surface region of the transparent layer of the vitreous silica crucible by controlling the number of rotations applied to the vitreous silica crucible in a state that an inner surface side of the vitreous silica crucible is fused by arc heating; and moving a portion of a non-bubble layer in the surface of the transparent layer exposed by movement of the residual bubble-containing layer to cover a region in which bubbles have gathered with the non-bubble layer.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a vitreous silica crucible including: a taking-out process of taking out the vitreous silica crucible from the mold, a honing process of removing the unfused silica powder layer on the outer surface of the vitreous silica crucible, and further comprising, after the taking-out process and before the honing process, a marking process of marking an identifier comprised of one or more groove line on the outer surface of the vitreous silica crucible, wherein the groove line after the honing process has a depth of 0.2 to 0.5 mm, and a width of 0.8 mm or more at the opening of the groove line.
摘要:
Provided is a method of calculating a temperature distribution with higher accuracy than a conventional method, which calculates a temperature distribution of an inner surface of a silica powder molded body during manufacturing based on boundary conditions corrected in accordance with the actually measured temperature in consideration of plasma radiation by arc discharge and heat radiation of arc discharge.According to a method of calculating a temperature distribution of a crucible during manufacturing, includes a temperature calculation process in which a temperature calculator calculates temperature distribution in an inner surface of a silica powder molded body through a numerical calculation method which mesh-divides an object to be calculated, by calculating heat flux from heat plasma modeled by a gas flow and radiation of heat plasma radiated from arc electrodes, wherein the temperature distribution is calculated by adjusting gas flow and radiation conditions in a way that the calculated temperature distribution and the actually measured temperature distribution of an inner surface of a silica powder molded body becomes similar, and reading, from a correspondence table, gas flow and radiation conditions corresponding each step of a control sequence for producing a crucible.