摘要:
Scanning Laser Epitaxy (SLE) is a layer-by-layer additive manufacturing process that allows for the fabrication of three-dimensional objects with specified microstructure through the controlled melting and re-solidification of a metal powders placed atop a base substrate. SLE can be used to repair single crystal (SX) turbine airfoils, for example, as well as the manufacture functionally graded turbine components. The SLE process is capable of creating equiaxed, directionally solidified, and SX structures. Real-time feedback control schemes based upon an offline model can be used both to create specified defect free microstructures and to improve the repeatability of the process. Control schemes can be used based upon temperature data feedback provided at high frame rate by a thermal imaging camera as well as a melt-pool viewing video microscope. A real-time control scheme can deliver the capability of creating engine ready net shape turbine components from raw powder material.
摘要:
A laser treatment apparatus is provided which is capable of irradiating a laser beam to the position where a TFT is to be formed over the entire surface of a large substrate to achieve the crystallization, thereby forming a crystalline semiconductor film having a large grain diameter with high throughput. A laser treatment apparatus includes a laser oscillation device, a lens for converging a laser beam, such as a collimator lens or a cylindrical lens, a fixed mirror for altering an optical path for a laser beam, a first movable mirror for radially scanning a laser beam in a two-dimensional direction, and an fθ lens for keeping a scanning speed constant in the case of laser beam scanning. These structural components are collectively regarded as one optical system. A laser treatment apparatus shown in FIG. 1 has a structure in which five such optical systems are placed. The number of optical systems is not limited; any number of optical systems is allowed as long as a means for supplying a plurality of laser beams is provided.
摘要:
A laser treatment apparatus is provided which is capable of irradiating a laser beam to the position where a TFT is to be formed over the entire surface of a large substrate to achieve the crystallization, thereby forming a crystalline semiconductor film having a large grain diameter with high throughput. A laser treatment apparatus includes a laser oscillation device, a lens for converging a laser beam, such as a collimator lens or a cylindrical lens, a fixed mirror for altering an optical path for a laser beam, a first movable mirror for radially scanning a laser beam in a two-dimensional direction, and an fnull lens for keeping a scanning speed constant in the case of laser beam scanning. These structural components are collectively regarded as one optical system. A laser treatment apparatus shown in FIG. 1 has a structure in which five such optical systems are placed. The number of optical systems is not limited; any number of optical systems is allowed as long as a means for supplying a plurality of laser beams is provided.
摘要:
A complex relative movement in a direction transverse to the crystal draw direction is imparted at the interface between the growing crystal bar and a melt of the crystallizable material by controlled electrical energization of a radial stabilizer acting upon the magnetizable core by which either the bar or the crucible or a supply bar for the material, or both, can be suspended.
摘要:
An apparatus for floating melt zone processing of a semiconductor rod including an axially fixed induction heating coil wherein the heating coil is attached to a horizontal shift means having an amplitude sufficiently great to move the coil away from the rod during insertion and/or removal of the rod in the apparatus.
摘要:
An apparatus for imparting combined centro-symmetric and noncentro-symmetric rotation to semiconductor bodies comprises a liquid-cooled sun gear, a stationary liquid-cooled ring gear coaxial with and radially spaced outwardly from the sun gear, and at least one planet gear disposed between and driven in engagement with the sun and ring gears. Means are provided for supporting a semiconductor body on each of the planet gears while minimizing the conduction of heat from the semiconductor body to the planet gear. Means are also provided for guiding a semiconductor body onto the supporting means and centering the semiconductor body on the planet gear. Thermal distortion of the apparatus is minimized when heated to extreme temperatures making the apparatus ideally suited for processing the semiconductor bodies with heat as in processing by temperature gradient zone melting.
摘要:
Combination in apparatus for producing rod-shaped members of crystalline material includes a sealed receptacle having a top wall, bottom wall and lateral wall portions, a pair of rod holders located in the receptacle substantially along the vertical central axis of the receptacle for supporting a rodshaped member of crystalline material therebetween, heating means mounted in the receptacle for producing a melting zone in the rod-shaped crystalline member, the heating means and the holders being displaceable relative to one another for passing the melting zone along the rod-shaped crystalline member, and drive means extending into the receptacle through a wall portion other than the bottom wall portion from a location outside the receptacle for moving the holders and the heating means relative to one another.